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Episode #17: Myq Kaplan and Zach Sherwin
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Episode #17: Myq Kaplan and Zach Sherwin

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthySeptember 14, 2015

Myq Kaplan and Zach Sherwin have been friends of mine for years, and together, they have a new podcast miniseries, Words of the Years, on the new …

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Cipha Sounds like a DJ, thinks like a comedian: Don’t Get Gassed; Take It Personal!

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyDecember 19, 2014

It’s never too late to get bit by the comedy bug. Cipha Sounds could have jumped headfirst into stand-up comedy a decade before he did. …

Pivot orders Freestyle Love Supreme to series, plus new docu-series, renewal of “Please Like Me”
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Pivot orders Freestyle Love Supreme to series, plus new docu-series, renewal of “Please Like Me”

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyApril 16, 2014April 16, 20141

New cable channel Pivot enjoyed Freestyle Love Supreme‘s improvised hip-hop comedy special in March so much, it announced today it has ordered up 10 additional …

Donald Glover as Childish Gambino at 2010’s Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal
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Donald Glover as Childish Gambino at 2010’s Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyDecember 26, 2013

Here’s a #TBT for you from July 2010, when Donald Glover ventured to Montreal to receive a rising comedy star award from Just For Laughs …

Zach Sherwin switches it up, drops the comedy moniker in “Stage Name” and “SWITCHITUP”
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Zach Sherwin switches it up, drops the comedy moniker in “Stage Name” and “SWITCHITUP”

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 2, 2013July 2, 2013

You may have noticed a couple of weeks ago, when Zach Sherwin appeared on FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, Bell introduced him not …

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Stand-up comedy + classic hip-hop = Neal Brennan & Samantha Ronson’s mixtape

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthySeptember 10, 2012September 10, 2012

You may have heard the name Neal Brennan in conjunction with the Comedy Central sketch show he co-created with Dave Chappelle (Chappelle’s Show). But in …

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Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) earns a 2012 MTV VMA nomination

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 31, 2012

Eddie Murphy may have had a hit song back in the day with “Party All the Time” and even hosted the MTV Video Music Awards …

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