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Tiffany Haddish’s catchphrase, “She Ready,” also served as the title of her Showtime stand-up special in 2017. Now she’s ready to help six of her friends in comedy take the next step, presenting and producing their first half-hour specials for Netflix. It’s called They Ready, with filming taking place last …
Nate, short for Nathan, which itself is short for Nathaniel, as we learn in this hour, also informs audiences who aren’t caught up with Bargatze’s bio that his father still works as a professional magician, which may or may not represent a step up from his dad’s previous career in …
As part of Jimmy Fallon’s sponsored experiment to shoot an entire episode of The Tonight Show using cell phones, he got permission from The Comedy Cellar to have a crew set up in multiple spots to shoot stand-up comedian Rachel Feinstein onstage. In this set, Feinstein joked about getting set …
Liza Treyger is a New York based stand-up comic by way of Chicago, who grew up in nearby Skokie after immigrating from Russia when she was 3. Treyger has her own Comedy Central half-hour special and album, GLITTERCHEESE, and a more recent half-hour special on Netflix as part of The …
James Veitch loves replying to emails that were not meant for him in the first place. In this example he shared on The Tonight Show, Veitch wonders about a proposed swimming pool for a different Veitch couple in Florida, and has taken some issues with it. Roll the clip.
As part of Conan O’Brien’s 25th anniversary hosting late-night television, his Team Coco previously announced it had secured the comprehensive archives to O’Brien’s past work on NBC and saved it for our future digital viewing. Of course, one of the quirks/downsides of the digital age has seen TV networks wipe …
Carl Reiner turned 97 yesterday. To celebrate, the living comedy legend announced plans to digitally preserve his personal collection of scripts from The Dick Van Dyke Show. Reiner created, wrote and co-starred on the classic sitcom, which aired on CBS from 1961-1966. His personal scripts include lots of hand-written annotations, …
Aparna Nancherla shared her revelatory moment with social media in her stand-up set Wednesday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Nancherla also joked about trying to find therapy on her phone, and in real life. It’s not easy. Roll the clip!
The first Minneapolis Comedy Festival will kick off during the final week of June with a lineup that includes Bob Newhart, Seth Meyers, George Lopez, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and YouTubers Rhett and Link. Here are the shows already on sale. Not yet on sale: The June 28 performances …
Here’s a not-so-throwback Thursday for you, from earlier this week, when Andrew “Dice” Clay invited Roseanne Barr onstage with him at The Laugh Factory in Las Vegas. Roseanne tossed some jabs at ABC for killing her off from her own reboot of Roseanne this past year. Click here for the …
