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Tag: Greg Giraldo

Comedy Central’s Roasts as a Stand-Up Springboard to Stardom
News / TV

Comedy Central’s Roasts as a Stand-Up Springboard to Stardom

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyMarch 30, 2021March 30, 2021

Is comedy’s Roast Era over? Or just in time-out like much everything else thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic? We’ll have to wait to find out. …

Episode #97: Greg Giraldo biographer Matt Balaker
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Episode #97: Greg Giraldo biographer Matt Balaker

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJune 13, 2016

Matt Balaker is writing a book about Greg Giraldo; scratch that, he’s writing THE book on Greg Giraldo, as there hasn’t been a proper biography …

Facing Addiction: Maureen Wittels’s letter for her late son, Harris
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Facing Addiction: Maureen Wittels’s letter for her late son, Harris

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyFebruary 19, 2016February 19, 20163

Harris Wittels died a year ago today. The comedian and writer was only 30. He’s one of far too many victims of addiction to drugs …

Real talk from comedians about depression and mental illness
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Real talk from comedians about depression and mental illness

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 29, 20142

The suicide of Robin Williams, devastating as it was not just for his family and closest friends but also to millions of us fans around …

Inside the resurrection of Last Comic Standing, talking to executive producers (present) Page Hurwitz and (past) Barry Katz
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Inside the resurrection of Last Comic Standing, talking to executive producers (present) Page Hurwitz and (past) Barry Katz

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJanuary 17, 2014January 17, 20141

A lot can happen in four years. Just look up at that photo, from the last time we gathered to celebrate and commiserate over the …

Doug Stanhope on Opie and Anthony: On Dr. Drew, suicide, and debating alcoholism with Jim Norton
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Doug Stanhope on Opie and Anthony: On Dr. Drew, suicide, and debating alcoholism with Jim Norton

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyMay 7, 2013May 7, 20131

Doug Stanhope brought his latest stand-up comedy tour into New York City, with gigs Sunday and Monday night at B.B. King’s in Times Square, and …

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They saw the Larry the Cable Guy Roast so that you could live

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyMarch 2, 20092

Comedy Central's Roast of Larry the Cable Guy taped its raucous proceedings last night in the greater Los Angeles area, and through the power of …

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Cheech & Chong: Reunited & Roasted

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyNovember 24, 20081

Before I get to my review of Cheech & Chong: Roasted, the TV show that'll air on TBS at 10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30 — …

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Root of All Evil, season two begins tonight

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 30, 2008

Comedy Central’s Root of All Evil starts its second season tonight, with host Lewis Black and a rotating duo of comedian prosecutors arguing that (blank) …

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Montreal 2008: News, notes, highlights, quotes

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 23, 20084

It’s time for one last look around the 2008 Montreal Just For Laughs festival, which Variety reports raked in $10 million (which is about the …

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