The Definitive Guide to Comedy
At the age of 49 — three decades removed from an FBI drug bust that sent him to prison, and 24 years into his career as an ex-con turned stand-up comedian — Ali Siddiq was still seeking his big break in show business. His debut special, It’s Bigger Than These …
Morgan Jay is a first-generation American, the son of an Italian man who was a famous pop star in Argentina before Morgan was born. Morgan got his start in comedy upon arriving at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and eventually dropped the normal set-ups and punchlines for a guitar, …
Erica Rhodes is an actress and comedian who got her start at the age of 10, performing on the nationally syndicated public radio hit, A Prairie Home Companion. Rhodes began her stand-up comedy career two decades later, inspired by a bad audition. But things have looked up for her since then. …
Elliott Morgan is one of the members of The Valleyfolk, a crowd-funded Internet comedy troupe that won the inaugural season of NBC’s Bring The Funny in the summer of 2019, winning $250,000 and an invitation to perform at the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. That’s a long way …
The Valleyfolk, a crowd-funded comedy troupe that rose from the ashes of the popular YouTube channel SourceFed last year, and propelled by its fans won this summer’s inaugural Bring The Funny competition on NBC, stunned fans by revealing that they fired one of their four members a week after that …
Congratulations to The Valleyfolk, a group of online comedians who formed a sketch group together last year, and last night won the $250,000 grand prize and a slot in the 2020 Just For Laughs festival in Montreal for winning the inaugural season of NBC’s Bring The Funny! The Valleyfolk were …
Last night saw the final five comedy acts perform for the title of NBC’s first-ever Bring The Funny competition. Online voting ended 12 hours ago, but we’ll have to wait until next Tuesday, Sept. 18, to discover who wins the $250,000 grand prize and a slot performing at the 2020 …
Here are four of the five finalists who will perform next Tuesday (Sept. 10, 2019) for your pleasure and Bring The Funny‘s grand prize of $250,000 and a slot in the 2020 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. The fifth finalist will be announced then, performing as a wild-card based …
NBC’s new comedy competition series, Bring The Funny, is almost ready to give viewers a chance to decide who we think is bringing said funny. Tuesday night’s episode saw the third and final round of “comedy clashes,” in which two similar comedy acts had to face-off in brief sets for …
Sorry, Ismo fans. NBC’s Bring The Funny judges Kenan Thompson, Chrissy Teigen and Jeff Foxworthy winnowed the field for this initial comedy competition down in half again on the second round of “comedy clashes.” They chose Erica Rhodes over Ismo. They preferred young Michael Longfellow over Calvin Evans. They sided …
