Apply For 2021 Comedy Competitions in San Francisco, Seattle
by After a hiatus in 2020 for the pandemic, both the San Francisco Comedy Competition and the Seattle Comedy Competition plan to resume this summer and …
Sebastian Maniscalco Selling Out Arenas In 2021
Delta variant? What Delta variant? Sebastian Maniscalco’s upcoming arena comedy tour already is setting ticket-selling records. Today he became the first to comedian to pack …
Worldwide Pants Reboots Stupid Pet Tricks For TBS With Sarah Silverman Hosting
Remember this is an exhibition, not a competition. Please, no wagering! Stupid Pet Tricks are returning to TV, this time on TBS, with Sarah Silverman …
Neal Brennan Announces New Off-Broadway Show, ‘Unacceptable’
Neal Brennan is following up his successful 2016 Off-Broadway run of 3 Mics, which begat a 2017 Netflix special, with a new one-man show. This …
R.I.P. Jackie Mason (1928-2021)
Jackie Mason, a Tony and Emmy-winning stand-up comedian so identified with Yiddish humor he named his YouTube channel, “TheUltimateJew,” died on Saturday at Mt. Sinai …
Comedy Central Taping New Half-Hours in 2021 for Ian Lara, RB Butcher, Yedoye Travis
Comedy Central is staying in the half-hour special business in 2021, filming three new half-hours this weekend in New York City. Ian Lara, RB Butcher …
Here Are Your 2021 New Faces for Just For Laughs Montreal
Congrats to this year’s special crop of “New Faces” for Just For Laughs to entice the industry of managers, agents, network executives and casting agents …
Episode #348: Tig Notaro
Tig Notaro has both survived and thrived in the decade since she first disclosed her breast cancer diagnosis to a live audience in Los Angeles …
Alex Falcone on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Alex Falcone made his network television debut on Thursday’s episode of The Late Show, joking about how he’s still married to his childhood sweetheart, and …
HBO, HBO Max Has Renewed Both Sketch Shows By Sam Jay and Michael Che
This May, two similar yet tonally completely different sketch series premiered on HBO and HBO Max from the orbit of Saturday Night Live. And now …