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Get ready to add Jo Koy to the list of stand-up comedians who’ve made it to the big time of headlining Madison Square Garden. Koy is just one of the 14 acts announced today as headliners for the 2022 New York Comedy Festival, happening Nov. 7-13, 2022, mostly across Manhattan …
This is a full-on variety show, as Jo Koy traveled to the Philippines with a breakdancer, Ronnie; a Grammy-winning producer, !llmind; singer/songwriter Iñigo Pascual; and comedians Andrew Lopez, Joey Guila, and Andrew Orolfo to Manila, showcasing Filipino-American talents in the Philippines, while also showcasing them to the world. It’s better …
For fans of the original Last Comic Standing, there’s something still magical about the premise of putting comedians in a house to live together. Netflix plays into that with this new webseries, Joke House. What happens when you make seven confused Netflix comedians share a single hotel room? Nothing good! …
Just For Laughs named Jo Koy the “Stand-Up Comedian of the Year” last summer thanks mainly to the ticket sales for his live touring. That included 11 sold-out dates in Honolulu. He returned to Hawaii to film his second Netflix special there, in the 8,800-capacity arena. Whereas most comedians stopped …
truTV is continuing to add new series from stand-up comedians, announcing two new orders today: This Functional Family from comedian Jo Koy (truTV’s first animated series), and Game Changers from Clayton English and Noah Gardenswartz. Koy’s This Functional Family gets a 10-episode order, expected to premiere in 2020. At the …
The New York Comedy Festival turns 15 this November, and its quinceañera will celebrate with headlining performances by Bill Burr, Jimmy Carr, David Cross, Desus & Mero, Dan Harmon’s Harmontown, Gabriel Iglesias, Jim Jefferies, Anthony Jeselnik, Jo Koy, Bert Kreischer, Marc Maron, Jason Mewes, Tracy Morgan, Conan O’Brien, Yvonne Orji, Bryan …
For his son’s 15th birthday, comedian Jo Koy made fun of him on national television, describing on The Late Late Show with James Corden how creepy he is as a “roommate” at this age. And messy. If only the flossing (or lack thereof) was the worst of it. Roll the …
Jo Koy enjoys talking about his son in his stand-up, but now that his son is 14, their relationship just isn’t the same anymore. Koy explained in this performance Friday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Roll the clip.
Jo Koy‘s newest stand-up special finds him, like other comedians who have been around for a while but not on Netflix yet, devoting the hour as much to reintroducing himself to the audience as he is delving into new developments in his life. Here’s an excerpt from my review of …
Anjelah Johnson isn’t just making a habit out of making music videos as character Bon Qui Qui. Johnson is going to make a full album of songs with Atlantic Records. Here is her new song, with the video debuting over the weekend on NUVOtv — where Johnson’s one-hour special, “The …
