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Australian comedian James Smith made it back to the States this week to perform on Thursday night’s Conan. Smith is single, ladies! Ah, but there’s a catch. As a single fella, he’s figured out what he’s willing to do for a mate, and more importantly, what he’s not willing to …
Just as ABC is refuting a report in today's New York Times that it may move Jimmy Kimmel a half-hour earlier into Nightline's spot, the late-night ABC news program just happened to devote a segment to stand-up comedy. What a delightful coincidence! Nightline stopped by the Comedy Cellar, talked to …
Most of the industry just got to Montreal, Just for Laughs still has four nights to go, but that’s not stopping them from jump-starting and continuing to schedule a nightly showcase at Comedyworks as "Best of the Fest." How would they know? Was someone judging? These are rhetorical, moot questions, …
The inaugural Great American Comedy Festival got under way last night with an amateur stand-up contest in Norfolk, Neb., hometown to the late Johnny Carson. Eddie Brill, David Letterman’s comedy guy, is coordinating the effort, and we all know how Letterman felt about his late-night TV mentor. Robert Klein is …
My Australian friend James Smith thinks Oprah may have tipped the scales in favor of Barack Obama, and more, tonight on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham. More thoughts on the election from Smith after the jump!
The 2008 season of Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham debuts the Friday after Memorial Day. But why wait that long for some deep dish insider exclusive scuttlebutt? Especially when we got plenty of bits of tid to share just from swinging by the tapings on Saturday and Sunday at Gotham …
Let’s try this again. This time, we caught up with Australian comedian James Smith, about to take the stage at the Comedy Cellar. Only Smith no longer had the long locks we’d come to know him by. What’s up with that? Smith responds. The lighting is better. Don’t know what …
