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Chris Rock’s new HBO special, Kill the Messenger, has posters up around the city and a couple of video teases, one of which opens quite autobiographically, with Rock saying: "I grew up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. I started out in clubs making $5 a night. Now I’m here playing the world …
It’s the All-Star break in baseball, and with festivities just a couple of boroughs away from The Comic’s Comic HQ over at Yankee Stadium, we cannot help but notice. Nor can we fail to mention that yesterday’s All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game included four comedians: Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, …
This week’s TCA (TV Critics Association) press tour saw some news come out of HBO yesterday, with several new comedy series and specials planned. To wit: Ricky Gervais is taping his shows next week (July 14-16) at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden for his first American stand-up TV …
What happens when people stop acting polite and start getting real? True story!* Original member of MTV’s The Real World, Kevin Powell, is running for Congress in New York City, and last night held a fund-raiser in which Dave Chappelle was your featured headline performer. Only Chappelle never made it …
Sure, Bonnaroo was almost a month ago, but we’re now being treated to some nice photographic representations of how comedy has become a part of this burgeoning national music festival in Tennessee. Louis CK was nice enough not only to share some artistic photos he shot from the set of …
I didn’t make it Bonnaroo this weekend, but thousands of other music and comedy fans did. And more than a few of them already have weighed in with their opinions of the massive Tennessee festival. Stereogum took plenty of pics, loved Chris Rock, thought Reggie Watts was "custom built for …
Chris Rock just got back from South Africa, and cannot believe the way he was punked there last weekend. Particularly after having to deal with too much craziness with Anthony Pellicano and his trial earlier this year, these punks had the nerve to accuse Rock of statutory rape? Rock popped …
Before we get back to the comedy grindstone, let’s recap the comedy news from the Memorial Day weekend… Dane Cook flew into Las Vegas for three shows at Caesars. He told the Review-Journal beforehand that he not only remained well aware of the backlash against him, but was ready to …
Max Silvestri liveblogged the awkwardly amusing Night of Too Many Stars benefit last night on Comedy Central so I wouldn’t have to. The highlight of the night, though, had to be Chris Rock and Steven Wright trading off each other’s jokes (video included when available — the entire show can …
Tickets go on sale at noon today for the two New York City dates at Town Hall for Flight of the Conchords, so I thought I’d look and see what other comedy tours are hot sellers. Flight of the Conchords at Town Hall (NYC) May 6-7. Get tickets!Lewis Black has …