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Aziz Ansari has announced new dates for his current stand-up comedy tour, “Modern Romance,” which also is fueling his mega-million book deal with Penguin on the subject, but the big news in comedy circles is that his dates in New York City, D.C., Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia and Las Vegas are …
Felipe Esparza‘s birthday wish probably isn’t to have another comedian doing a bit on TV that’s similar to his own. Especially when the bit is done by a contestant on season 8 of Last Comic Standing. Esparza won Last Comic the last time NBC mounted the contest in 2010 for …
REMIX! As NBC’s Last Comic Standing enters the semifinal rounds, the show just posted a new clip featuring several of the Top 100 comedians who made jokes about food. They’re not identified in the clip, but I know from sight and sound that we’ve got jokes from Nore Davis, Jimmy …
What took them so long? Watch this first official movie trailer for Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber To and see what Lloyd and Harry have been up to for the past 20 years. Nice get by The Tonight Show to host and debut the clip on …
How long has it been since Dave Chappelle left his Comedy Central series, Chappelle’s Show? Long enough that in his first appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in a decade, Chappelle joked to Letterman that he just says to Comedy Central that he hasn’t quit. “I am seven years …
Black dudes in hoodies: A scary thing, but how scary, really? That’s the question Ian Edwards poses and answers in his stand-up set on Tuesday night’s Conan. Hint: Not as scary as white dudes in suits. And then there is the Rev. Al Sharpton, in a suit. Which is a …
Jodi Miller got her big break on Tuesday’s episode of America’s Got Talent on NBC. Miller, who has a weekly gig as a co-host at The Comedy Store’s Belly Room on Thursday nights, told AGT she continues to deliver groceries to pay the bills. No more day job for her …
Jerry Seinfeld hasn’t been like you for decades now. Even if you are, like him, a stand-up comedian. Even if you are, like him, making your own webseries. Case in point: As Seinfeld promotes his upcoming fourth season of his webseries, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, he does so via …
Any other night, seeing Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock perform at the same comedy club would be the kind of occasion to become entertainment’s top headline and even conjure up a GQ article a year later just to reminisce. But Saturday night wasn’t any other night in comedy. Or at …
Happy Mondays all around to several comedians thanks to this news from Comedy Central: The network has ordered two new series — Another Period and Idiotsitter— and renewed three others, Inside Amy Schumer, Review and TripTank. Comedy Central President Kent Alterman also announced five original webseries coming out this summer and later this …
