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For years now, we’ve been sharing notes, transcripts and more recently full audio recordings of Andy Kindler’s annual State of the Industry Address that he delivers at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. It has become one of the must-see, must-listen moments each July at comedy’s largest confab. What will …
Nathan Macintosh is a Canadian comedian living in New York City, and Tuesday night Macintosh made his American TV debut performing on Conan. So he could note the irony of hearing Americans talk about moving to Canada now that Trump’s in power. But Macintosh grew up poor, which also means …
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and TBS have announced its first “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” which will take place on Saturday, April 29, 2017 at The Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. It’ll take place at the exact same time as the actual WHCD — which hasn’t announced much more …
Mike Royce was a stand-up comedian and audience warm-up guy for The Maury Povich Show and Spin City before he broke through as a writer for the Sklar Brothers and their MTV series, Apartment 2F. He later helped his friend Ray Romano on a book and eventually his hit CBS …
Did you know the Screen Actors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award features a sad tragedy face on the opposite side of the happy comedy face on its actual award? That’s one of the revelations Lily Tomlin shared with us upon winning the award in 2017. Roll the clip for more! Congrats, …
From door guy at The Comedy Store to winner of Roast Battle II, congrats to Frank Castillo. Castillo prevailed over Matthew Broussard in the live finale broadcast Sunday night on Comedy Central from the old House of Blues venue — reconfigured into a battle arena for Jeff Ross Presents Roast …
For his sixth international trip in the past two years, Conan O’Brien is heading to Mexico City. Wall or no wall. CONAN Without Borders: Made in Mexico will air in primetime — 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, on TBS. The hour-long special is set to premiere Wednesday, March …
We’re one week into the administration of President Trump, and with a new edition of Celebrity Apprentice on the airwaves (with replacement host Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a lack of celebs showing up for Trump at his inauguration, this Throwback Thursday allows me to take a look back at the late …
Roast Battle II begins a four-night run tonight, with new episodes at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific Thursday-Sunday, following the action as 16 stand-up comedians roast each other in front of celebrity judges until only one reigns supreme live on Sunday night on Comedy Central. I could’ve sworn that I heard Jeffrey …
Six years ago, many an aspiring comedian dreamed of writing the perfect Tweet or series of Tweets that would launch their careers as stand-ups or comedy writers. Today, the best that comedian can hope for is an onscreen mention on @midnight, probably. The worst? Death threats. Stephen Spinola has experienced …
