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The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has hired Dulcé Sloan as the latest correspondent to join “The Best F#@king News Team.” Sloan will make her first appearance on the show this week with an in-studio desk piece. From Comedy Central: Sloan was recently named by Rolling Stone as one of the 10 Comedians You Need to …
Scot Armstrong grew up outside of Chicago and first studied comedy under the legendary Del Close, before moving to New York City and joining the Upright Citizens Brigade improv troupe Mother, whose members included Jason Mantzoukas, Jon Daly and Jessica St. Clair. He has since worked with St. Clair as …
Shelley Berman, famed comedian and actor whose career spanned several decades, died early this morning at the age of 92 at his home in Bell Canyon, Calif., his publicist Glenn Schwartz told The Comic’s Comic. Berman, born Feb. 3, 1925, in Chicago, died from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease, which was the only reason …
Austin’s Paramount Theatre has gathered some all-star comedians together to put on a big ol’ benefit fund-raiser to help out fellow Texans flooded and hurting from Hurricane Harvey. Ron White, Iliza Shlesinger, Chris D’Elia and more will perform on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, at The Paramount for The Harvey Relief …
Just when you thought Nathan For You couldn’t get any crazier, Comedy Central has unveiled the trailer for season four. Check it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ9xBooAADM It all starts Sept. 21, 2017, with an hourlong special called Nathan For You: A Celebration, in which Fielder reconnects with former guests of the show, including P.I. Brian Wolfe, the …
Certainly we’re past the peak of this comedy boom now that anyone can play pretend stand-up comedian and/or pretend heckler in a video game, right? Comedy Night, an XBox game from 2012 that you may or may not remember, is back in a new virtual form, released this past week …
I wrote a glowing review of Ryan Hamilton‘s first Netflix stand-up special over at Decider, because he earned it! Watching Ryan Hamilton: Happy Face will make your face happy, too. A decade of living and doing comedy in New York City has done this Idaho boy good. And given him the …
For the first time ever, the Edinburgh Comedy Awards declared not one but two individual winners of the Best Comedy Show at the Fringe, with Australian Hannah Gadsby and Brit John Robins sharing the top 2017 prize. Meanwhile, American Natalie Palamides took home the Best Newcomer prize for the 2017 …
Jerry Seinfeld’s first Netflix special, Jerry Before Seinfeld, premieres Sept. 19, 2017. In a year in which every A-list stand-up has released a new hour for Netflix, Seinfeld looks like he has made an effort to truly make his newest hour special by looking backward. As this first-look clip highlights, …
Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford, drinking white wine at 10 in the morning, forcing sober comedian Craig Ferguson to sit next to them on live TV and judge three aspiring stand-up comedians who are tasked with performing 45 seconds each, back to back to back, to “crack up” Craig. …
