Employee of the Month (July 2022): Janelle James
by Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employee of the Month …
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Netflix Announces Season 3 of The Standups
Netflix is getting back into the business of producing half-hour comedy specials. Today the streaming giant announced the six-pack of stand-up comedians who’ll tape their …
Here are the first performers for the second annual Janelle James Comedy Festival
While the New York Comedy Festival may see the biggest celebration of comedians in the nation’s biggest city each November, the following month will see …
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Will Smith crosses stand-up comedy off of his “Bucket List,” thanks to Dave Chappelle and others
When Will Smith emerged in the 1980s as a rapper and sitcom star, there was no denying his comedic sensibilities. Some three decades later, though, …
Inaugural Janelle James Comedy Festival lineup will include Eugene Mirman, David Cross and plenty of new faces
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival may now be The Janelle James Comedy Festival, but Mirman himself will appear and perform as part of the hand-off …
The Janelle James Comedy Festival will replace annual Eugene Mirman fest in Brooklyn
Eugene Mirman has long flown the coop from Park Slope, and now, so too has his eponymous comedy festival. But he has bequeathed the Brooklyn …
Double Threat: Janelle James and Tim Dillon at Just For Laughs 2018
Double Threat may be one of my favorite shows/concepts at Just For Laughs. It’s so named because you get to see two stand-up comedians on …
Tight 15s: Netflix orders bunch of new, shorter stand-up specials
Netflix made waves two years ago by ramping up production of stand-up specials to almost one per week. Last year, the streaming giant also introduced …
Highlights from Full Frontal with Samantha Bee “Not the White House Correspondents Dinner”
Whether this becomes a new annual ritual or not, Samantha Bee and her Full Frontal team from TBS put on a heckuva show Saturday night …
Meet Me In New York: Janelle James
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling …