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Daniel Sloss returned to Conan again — and on Monday night’s show, Sloss wondered how Brits can get condoms for free, but if a woman wants a tampon, she has to pay for it, and then gets taxed upon it as a “luxury item.” And you thought your health-care system …
Adrienne Truscott won multiple awards when she took her one-woman show about rape jokes to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including honors for “Comic Originality” and the prestigious Panel Prize. That was August 2013. Some three years later, the summer of 2016 finds Truscott doing “Adrienne Truscott’s Asking For It: A One-Lady …
The Kennedy Center announced today that it’ll award Bill Murray the 2016 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Said Murray in a statement: “I believe Mark Twain has rolled over in his grave so much for so long, that this news won’t disturb his peace.” And from Kennedy Center President Deborah …
Lin-Manuel Miranda and his improvised comedy hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme have scaled even greater heights on Broadway, first with Miranda’s semi-autobiographical In The Heights, and now with the transcendent musical Hamilton. Miranda’s co-conspirator in creating Freestyle Love Supreme, Thomas Kail, directs Hamilton. And Christopher Jackson (C-Jack in FLS) plays …
Judd Apatow and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder were equally full of surprises this weekend at the Bonnaroo music and comedy festival in Tennessee. Apatow introduced Vedder as the surprise guest on his comedy showcase, and then informed the audience that Vedder had written a song in tribute to Apatow’s …
Matt Balaker is writing a book about Greg Giraldo; scratch that, he’s writing THE book on Greg Giraldo, as there hasn’t been a proper biography about the outrageously witty stand-up comedian since he died in 2010 at the age of only 44. Balaker, a comedian himself, has interviewed more than …
Anyone who came through Hyenas, and later Laffs, came to know and love “Hoodie.” Gary Hood, a comedy mentor and the booker at Laffs Comedy Caffe in Tucson, has died. He was 66. Born Aug. 18, 1949, Hood’s old comedy club bios for him say that he was a former …
Funny or Die has launched into the 3D world of 360-degree Virtual Reality with this first sketch, in which Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel play funny cop/funny cop and you play the suspect in an interrogation room. Roll the clip! But get your 3D glasses first for full effect!
Tom Papa returned to Conan on Thursday, and said if you really want to be scared about where the world is heading, just think about where all of the adults went. “Everybody’s a baby now.” Adult coloring books? Therapy dogs? Then again, Papa has two daughters, and realizes they’ve begun …
The hit Broadway musical Hamilton will hit peak cultural status this coming weekend with the Tony Awards, and New York City comedian Richie Moriarty pays tribute today with this video of him singing “Alexander Hamilton.” Only Moriarty does it via 14 different celebrity impersonations. Including Adam Sandler, JFK, Christopher Walken, Mickey Mouse, Beaker …
