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Jordan Temple made his debut on Tuesday night’s Conan, and expressed hope in seeing more black people in more inspiring occupations. And not just in porn. Temple also joked about the upcoming Harriet Tubman money, Tim Burton movies, and going to a white boarding school in a black neighborhood. Roll …
Comedian Aaron Hertzog has delivered my favorite take on the NBA’s trade of Blake Griffin from the Los Angeles Clippers to the Detroit Pistons, with this article in Fansided: How does the trade to Detroit affect Blake Griffin’s comedy career? After all, Griffin has performed at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival, …
A brand-new extensive interview with Kathy Griffin appeared today in The Hollywood Reporter, putting her on its cover as A Comic In Exile. The profile headline? “Can a Comic in Exile Come Back?” For starters, she’s not exiled. THR met her for lunch in Santa Monica and visited with her …
Kevin Hart has added more than 100 dates in arenas around the world to this year’s Irresponsible Tour. Which makes you think Hart probably needs to clone himself to keep up. He’s already thought of that. Roll the promo clip. Tickets went on sale today for the North American tour …
After two seasons, Showtime has decided to stop rolling the Dice with Andrew Dice Clay’s semi-autobiographical sitcom. The formal announcement came Tuesday, but the writing had been on the wall, ever since its notable absence at the winter TCA sessions. Ratings also were never great for the sitcom that pondered …
Kellen Erskine is in favor of self-driving cars, because his own response time is dwindling, as he revealed on Monday’s Conan. Erskine also jokingly made arguments for new policies toward shopping carts and bike locks. Maybe he should also have one on baby monitors? Roll the clip.
As the annual SF Sketchfest closes the books on another successful January celebrating comedy by the Bay, Comedy Central has announced it, too, will continue its own comedy festival as an annual tradition this June. Clusterfest will return June 1-3, 2018. Pre-sale tickets available this Feb. 1. I was there …
During the 2016 Summer Olympics, Saturday Night Live‘s Leslie Jones live-tweeted the action with such patriotic fervor that NBC realized they needed to bring Jones to Rio to enhance the network’s coverage. This February, NBC isn’t going to wait so long. Jones is heading to Korea. NBC’s live coverage of …
As Sunday, Feb. 18, becomes Monday, Feb. 19, 2018, Adult Swim is getting especially weird, thanks to two new short-form comedy specials from Jena Friedman and Eric Andre. Soft Focus with Jena Friedman will premiere at midnight ET/PT. The network describes her special as “a live-action comedic human-interest program where …
You probably recognize Matt Jones from the critically acclaimed AMC series, Breaking Bad, where he played Badger. But Jones has an extensive comedy background, starting in Southern California, where he performed improv in high school, then eventually to Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, and back to Hollywood for multiple TV roles in sitcoms and sketch shows …
