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In response to criticism from black women in comedy, flustered and upset that the 10th annual Laughing Skull Comedy Festival couldn’t find room for any of them in its upcoming stand-up competition, here’s an open letter from the festival’s owner and founder, Marshall Chiles. Reprinted in full. To Our Beloved …
On Thursday, the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival announced the 60 comedians participating in the 10th annual stand-up comedy contest in Atlanta this May, and it didn’t take anyone too long to wonder what was wrong with that picture. As stand-up Samantha Ruddy posted on Twitter today: But the festival doubled …
We’re already two months into 2019, and if you haven’t already made use of my Comedy Festivals page, please bookmark it for your resources. If you need to know how festivals are coming in time-wise, well, please allow me to sort that information for you here now! MARCH 2019 Brisbane …
If you thought there weren’t enough comedy festivals in 2016…and there’s got to be some of you out there…or if you really feel there isn’t a significant enough comedy festival in the United States to trump (pardon the term) Montreal’s Just For Laughs, the Edinburgh Fringe or Melbourne, then Comedy …
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 …
PLEASE GO TO MY NEWLY CREATED COMEDY FESTIVALS FOR A MORE TIMELESS LISTING OF ALL OF THE CURRENT FESTS Almost nine years ago now, the seeds of The Comic’s Comic firmly planted themselves into my brain during a blizzard of snow and laughs in Aspen, Colo. Back then, you had …
Comedy Central’s late-night comedy “game show” and Twitter takeover expert, @midnight, is making its first road trip, heading to New York City to tape a week’s worth of shows during the New York Comedy Festival, airing Nov. 3-6, 2014. Host Chris Hardwick and the crew will tape the four broadcasts …
If you were to ask me where to go to feel better about myself and everyone around me, Maui definitely would be near the top of my list. Heck, any of the Hawaiian islands would do the trick. Heck, there’s not even a trick to it. I even entertained a …
Mark Oct. 19, 2013, on your calendars for the first-ever Festival Supreme, a full-day of comedy and music put on by Tenacious D’s Jack Black and Kyle Gass on the Santa Monica Pier. “We’ve been trying to put this thing together for years. The comedy + music event of the …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Adult Swim announced a special one-off series finale on March 7 for Delocated, starring Jon Glaser. Sarah Silverman will kick off the second annual Wayne Federman International Film Festival when it returns to CineFamily in Los Angeles from Feb. 28 through March 2. Wayne Federman’s …
