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For his 60th birthday in 2017, Rich Vos received a roast for a lifetime at The Comedy Cellar’s Village Underground, a venue that his friends joked, he can’t even get booked at! The Vos Roast was uploaded in 2018 to Vimeo On Demand. Now it’s free! As his wife and …
There’s a new stand-up showcase series to keep you company during the coronavirus quarantine, thanks to Comedy Central and Refinery29. CC x R29: Taking the Stage, a short-form stand-up showcase, premiered Tuesday on Comedy Central’s Stand-Up YouTube channel. CC x R29: Speak Up, a series featuring intimate one-on-one conversations with stand-up …
A new documentary about stand-up, This Is Stand-Up, gets its world premiere this coming Sunday (Easter) with limited commercial interruptions on Comedy Central. “This is Stand-Up is at heart a love letter to these amazing people,” says Producer/Director Paul Toogood. “Many years spending time and building relationships has hopefully enabled …
Just last week, Vic Henley was joking with Larry the Cable Guy on Twitter and poking fun at himself for being allowed back in the SiriusXM building after getting fired not once, but twice. Today, Henley is no longer with us. The comedian died unexpectedly after suffering a pulmonary embolism …
James Cannizzaro, who works security at Gotham Comedy Club, is recovering from the coronavirus, three weeks after he first entered the ER in Brooklyn. The 58-year-old Cannizzaro, known to many in comedy as “Jimmy Big Balls” during his previous marriage to comedian Lisa Lampanelli from 2010-2014, had remarried. He told …
Bummer. Variety broke the news Friday night that Comedy Central isn’t going to be airing any new episodes of Lights Out with David Spade on Comedy Central. Head writer Sean O’Connor shouted out his writing staff tonight: Connor McSpadden, Keith Carey, Candice Thompson, Bobby Miyamoto, Sarah Tiana, Cullen Crawford, John …
The Sandman is here to cheer us up, and perhaps even more importantly, shout out the need to support our doctors and nurses fighting to keep as many of us alive as possible through the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Adam Sandler performed a new original song on Thursday’s Tonight Show. Behold! …
Nobody knows how long we’ll be suffering from coronavirus, or holed up in quarantine. Two of the biggest annual global comedy festivals already have cancelled on 2020 because of it — first came the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which would be happening right now in Australia; and now comes word …
You don’t need to watch the upcoming #LaughAid on your computer, phone or tablet. Unless you want or have to. That’s because AXS TV will broadcast the all-star benefit event, Comedy Gives Back Laugh Aid — this Saturday, April 4 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. Viewers can enjoy the Comedy Gives Back Laugh Aid simulcast …
Will Smith’s “This Joka” stand-up showcase will be coming to Quibi this year as a 16-episode series. Smith filmed the showcases last fall in Las Vegas, as I first reported. From today’s announcement by Quibi: This Joka is a co-production of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Media and …
