Episode #334: Maronzio Vance
by Maronzio Vance has appeared on Wanda Sykes: Wanda Does It, Jamie Foxx’s Laffapolooza, Last Comic Standing, and The Tonight Show, and put out a half-hour special on Comedy …
R.I.P. Anne Beatts
Another of the original writers for Saturday Night Live has died. Anne Beatts, who was the first woman hired to help edit The National Lampoon, …
Episode #333: Ester Steinberg
Ester Steinberg started performing stand-up on the lunch tables of her high school in Tampa before attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. While living …
Adam Eget Leaving The Comedy Store to run Joe Rogan’s Austin Comedy Club at One World Theatre
Unless Adam Eget is pranking both me and his longtime colleagues at The Comedy Store, the club’s longtime booker has announced — on April 1 …
Lil Rel to host American Version of ‘Small Fortune’ for NBC
It’s a great spring for Lil Rel Howery. Howery, who co-stars in the Oscar-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah as well as new Netflix hit …
Dry Bar Comedy Teams Up With Comedy Dynamics For Wider Distribution
Dry Bar Comedy has 1.4 million subscribers to its YouTube channel, established four years ago, racking up some 400 million views of stand-up clips and …
Comedy Central’s Roasts as a Stand-Up Springboard to Stardom
Is comedy’s Roast Era over? Or just in time-out like much everything else thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic? We’ll have to wait to find out. …
R.I.P. Jason Smith, CEO of Starburns Audio
Jason Smith, the CEO of Starburns Audio, died on Friday. Originally from Sparks, Nev., Smith earned his bachelor’s degree in 2001 from the University of …
Episode #332: Eric Andre
Eric Andre may just be America’s, if not the world’s greatest prankster (with all due respect to Britain’s Sacha Baron Cohen and Canada’s Nathan Fielder). …
Jay Leno Apologizes for Decades of Anti-Asian Jokes
After a year of enduring even more hatred than before thanks to COVID-19, the Asian-American community has received an apology from a perhaps unlikely source: …