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Larry the Cable Guy made the media rounds today to promote his new Netflix special with Jeff Foxworthy, but even before noon, the comedian made waves when he jokingly told FOX & Friends that he wasn’t voting for Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 because she’d be “the end of …
In case you missed it over the weekend, Comedy Central debuted the first-ever televised edition of The Goddamn Comedy Jam, the live concert held monthly in Los Angeles. Comedians tell stories and stand-up jokes that relate to a song of their choosing, then belt out that song with a full …
Gene Wilder, the wonderfully witty actor who shined in several Mel Brooks films and captivated children of all ages as Willy Wonka, has died from complications with Alzheimer’s. Wilder was 83. Born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee, Wilder took his stage name as a young adult, although he showed interest in …
The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe hates Ann Coulter so much more than anyone else, the website doesn’t even include her in its photo gallery of dais participants! As you may have heard (read: read) from eyewitness reports inside Saturday night’s taping of the #LoweRoast in Culver City, Calif., …
Godfrey was born in Nebraska to Nigerian parents who had fled that country’s civil war in the late 1960s. Godfrey grew up in Chicago, which is also where he started pursuing comedy – despite his pre-med psychology degree at the University of Illinois – and where he filmed his newest hour …
The Tonight Show under Jimmy Fallon has demonstrated a comforting throwback trend when it comes to stand-up comedy, in allowing or convincing (whatever the case may be) stand-up comedians to actually perform a few minutes onstage proper instead of (but also in addition to) sitting on the panel to chat …
They’re called the “Blue Collar” comedians, even though there’s very little blue-collar about telling jokes for a living and making millions of dollars at it. And yet, onstage, Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy remain so gosh darn likable. Like your suburban white dad and your dad’s best friend or …
If you see something, don’t say something to the police. That’s just how this previously unreleased track from a George Carlin performance in 2001 starts! “You don’t help the police,” Carlin says at the start of “Rats & Squealers,” which is now part of the first posthumous Carlin record, coming …
How many stand-up comedians open their sets with operatic singing? Matteo Lane, that’s who. Lane used his vocals to voice his sexuality to his father, as he jokes opening his set Thursday night on Late Night with Seth Meyers. As if you were still questioning him after hearing his voice. …
Comedy Central continues its tradition of mashing up comedians, friends and random celebrities and infamous people for the dais of its annual celebrity roasts for this weekend’s planned Roast of Rob Lowe. The full, final lineup of roasters toasting Lowe? David Spade will preside over the #LoweRoast, with comedians Jeff …
