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It’s the end of the world as we know it, but Harland Williams feels fine. As he explained in his stand-up set on Tuesday’s Tonight Show, he’s not about to let North Korea or global warming scare him. Nature, though? Roll the clip and find out!
The 33rd edition of Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival will continue to cement its position as the world’s biggest congregation and celebration of comedy this July, with awards and performances heralding Dave Chappelle, Mike Myers, Kevin Hart, Patton Oswalt, Ellie Kemper and Armando Iannucci. The festival announced today they’ll be …
For all the grief I’ve given Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen for airing repeats five nights a week for the past seven years… Our long national nightmare of seeing Harland Williams stuck in his 2007 style are over! Comics Unleashed taped a batch of new episodes last week. Including Williams. …
In this brave not-so-brave old new world, stand-up comedians can record, produce and distribute their material however they so desire. And in 2013, Harland Williams chose to record “Force of Nature” in the desert. The Mojave Desert. On Monday night’s episode of Conan, Williams explained why the comedy clubs could …
A lot of aspiring comedians ask me for advice on getting into the business, and I remember from my own experiences in Seattle, those early days and nights when I would hope for a chance to corner each weekend’s headliners at the Comedy Underground and Giggles for some one-on-one conversation …
Living in New York City, it’s difficult to get through a September 11 without thinking about what happened that day in 2001, and yet I hadn’t planned on mentioning it here. Then I saw that two-hour documentary on CBS, 9/11: Ten Years Later, which saw two brothers filming the FDNY’s …
Harland Williams has written 21 short comedic pieces for upstart Internet network KoldCast TV, and the first of what should be weekly installments on KoldCast (as well as on YouTube) appeared today. Here is Williams discussing "Dirty Internet Terms." On YouTube, it’s here. Makes me want to blog right now! …
If you saw Harland Williams the other night on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, you might not have recognized him. Williams, an affable, lovable goof from Canada, usually has slick black hair and big sideburns framing his animated mug. That’s gone for now, thanks to another memorable supporting …
