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Just For Laughs has announced the lineup for its fifth annual edition of JFL42, a 42-show headliner stand-up comedy festival held at the end of September in Toronto. Getting top billing in 2016? Jim Gaffigan, Tig Notaro, Trevor Noah, Jim Jefferies, Roseanne Barr, Anthony Jeselnik, Demetri Martin and Chris D’Elia. Of …
Dan Mer wanted nothing to do with me at first. What’s in a name, anyhow? I moved to Tempe, Ariz., at the end of June 2001, into an apartment only a few blocks from the Tempe Improv and all of Arizona State University. Found out the day I moved in that …
Nick Brazao is a producer with Just for Laughs, the world’s largest international comedy festival. He has been with the company since 2009, working on all of Just for Laughs’ festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Chicago and Sydney. Nick produces the Off-JFL club and theater shows for Montreal each July, and spearheads …
Marina Franklin didn’t mean to become a cougar, as they say in dating lingo. But as she explained in her stand-up set on Friday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Franklin couldn’t help it if she’s aged well. She can control what kind of guys she dates, though. And as she …
As Comedy Dynamics first stand-up showcase series, Coming To The Stage, has entered its third season of half-hour stand-up showcases on Hulu, the comedy production house has decided to launch a spin-off series of scripted interstitial moments for its mascot character, Mr. Microphone. “Like a few great shows, Mr. Microphone …
Phil Hartman was “The Glue” that held together the all-time greatest cast among several generations of famous funny comedians on Saturday Night Live over the past 41 years. So Hartman’s death at 49, murdered by his third wife in his sleep on May 28, 1998, brought a brilliant career so suddenly …
Last night, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump (you voted for him) visited Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel presented a debate challenge from Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Trump said yes, but only if Sanders pays up, for charity. “If he paid a nice sum toward a charity, I would …
ACME Comedy Co., a beloved Minneapolis comedy club by comedians worldwide since it opened 25 years ago, believes it’ll have to close before celebrating its anniversary this November should a planned apartment developer get its way. The club sent out an email alert this week to fans urging them to …
You may know Dan McCoy as an Emmy-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central and now still writing for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, but you probably hear him more often as the producer and co-host of The Flop House podcast talking about bad …
It’s the end of the world as we know it, but Harland Williams feels fine. As he explained in his stand-up set on Tuesday’s Tonight Show, he’s not about to let North Korea or global warming scare him. Nature, though? Roll the clip and find out!
