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Comedy Central will rebroadcast Greg Giraldo's 2009 hourlong stand-up special, Midlife Vices, at 11 p.m. tonight. Your cable box may not have caught the last-minute change, so please make a note of it.
The New York Comedy Festival has filled out its slate of programming for the 2010 celebration in November with a series of panels, conversations and other goodness. They already announced their headlining shows, and have added a second show for Kevin Hart due to ticket demand. Here's the rest! TUESDAY, …
Jon Stewart took a minute out at the end of tonight's episode of The Daily Show on Comedy Central to say a few words on the passing of comedian Greg Giraldo, who died Wednesday at the age of 44. Stewart said of Giraldo: "The comedy world lost a good man …
With a heavy heart, the sad and shocking news is true: Greg Giraldo died Wednesday at the age of 44. Giraldo had been hospitalized since Saturday evening in New Jersey after an accidental overdose of prescription medication — he was halfway through a four-night run at the Stress Factory in …
"I thought the whole point of this was to get the small part in the big Hollywood comedy movie." — Tim Heidecker, questioning Brett Gelman about why he was still hosting "shit shows" such as Comedy Death-Ray, in a surprise walk-on appearance as Gelman's "comedy coach" at Comedy Death-Ray on …
Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Dane Cook stopped by to talk about his summer, and the things he has done to occupy his time in between massive stand-up comedy tours of U.S. arenas and theaters. He starts another tour this weekend in L.A. at the Greek Theatre. Here's a …
Week Two of the prelims ended over the weekend, and the semifinals have begun in the 35th annual San Francisco International Comedy Competition. Who is still in the running? After a car accident sidelined comedian Marc Patrick (!?!), whom we presume is OK otherwise (!?!) — these are your 10 …
So now the truth can be told? Amid laughing along with Jon Stewart about his recent appearance on Oprah Winfrey's "final" season, David Letterman disclosed the real reason Oprah had been giving him the cold shoulder for years upon years. Turns out she doesn't enjoy "a little horseplay." And by …
Roy Wood Jr., last seen on your TV dial finishing third on this season of NBC's Last Comic Standing, and perhaps last seen by you at a nationwide LCS tour gig, can now be heard by residents in his hometown of Birmingham, Ala., on radio station 95.7 FM "Jamz" in …
Remember the Comedy Central series, Shorties Watching Shorties? Taking a stand-up comedian's bits and animating them sometimes can be a wonderful way to, well, illustrate the story being told within the joke. OK, I clearly need to stay out of the sun. The heat is beating me down. But I …