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Brian Regan returned to The Tonight Show this June to make us question why press conferences only have one set of microphones, why sports fans have to mimic their mascots, and what the proper response was to the Michael Vick case. Roll the clip!
The 34th edition of Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival, the world’s biggest comedy confab running from July 13-31, 2016, has announced its headliners for this summer. The industry ComedyPro section — including New Faces, panels, podcasts and awards — will happen July 27-30, 2016. Among the biggest events revealed so …
Brian Regan’s live stand-up performance Saturday night was a big hit to the 6,000 audience members inside Radio City Music Hall, and seemed to work out well, too, for the folks at Comedy Central, who’d never produced a live stand-up special before. Sure, the cable network has gone live every …
Brian Regan logged 28 stand-up comedy performances on Late Show with David Letterman over the years, but now that Letterman is off the air, and Colbert hasn’t introduced stand-up to his program yet, the place for Regan to stop by this week was The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Besides, …
Brian Regan has performed on 28 separate episodes of Late Show with David Letterman, but on his final appearance Friday night, he announced his stand-up trick will be pulled off just a few blocks away. On Sept. 26, 2015, Regan will headline Comedy Central’s first-ever live stand-up comedy special — …
Chris Rock said he came up with the idea and started writing the screenplay for Top Five during idle time on the set of Grown Ups 2. If only all or even any of his other cast members could reach a similar epiphany! All comparisons to Annie Hall aside, Rock …
Brian Regan has performed stand-up so many times on Late Show with David Letterman that when Letterman introduced Regan on Friday night’s episode, Letterman didn’t even try to give a specific number. “More than 25 times,” is what he said. What made this night special, though: Regan also received an …
Is this the great Chris Rock movie we’ve all been waiting for? Early reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival say Rock’s Top Five easily will be in the top five movies he has ever appeared in. The first official trailer debuted tonight at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center as part of …
The American Comedy Awards just added one more category to the mix at the last minute (after voting for everything else had ended March 18 (see above!)), to recognize stand-up comedians who play concert-sized rooms and not just clubs. After culling names from the “Industry Committee” (we each received three …
Has Brian Regan really performed 27 times now on Late Show with David Letterman? Or is it 27 times overall, including NBC and CBS late-night spots? Either way, quite an accomplishment. Just keeping count, or maintaining your spot in line, is something, too. As Regan reminds us in this set …
