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**** 1/2 (out of 5) Easter weekend and Ramadan coinciding with the start of the Melbourne festival felt fortuitous for visiting American stand-ups Joel Kim Booster and Zainab Johnson, who are co-headlining a run for the first half of the fest. It also helps that Booster and Johnson have both …
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 for June 2022 is Joel Kim Booster. Congrats Joel! NOTE: This is a feature I introduced on my Substack, Piffany, in 2021, and have transferred over …
It’s easy to just rattle off the headliners and say go to them. In fact, several of the biggest names performing this week at the 2019 New York Comedy Festival already have sold out their shows! Here are shows you still have a chance at seeing last-minute, as well as …
Congrats to my neighbors in Queens!? NBC has ordered the sitcom Sunnyside to series for the upcoming Fall 2019 schedule. The sitcom stars Kal Penn as a young New York City Councilman from the Queens neighborhood of Sunnyside whose career crashes and burns, and then gets rescued, sort of, by …
The Comedy Central Originals YouTube channel officially went live today. It’s where you can now find all of the network’s webseries and digital one-off content. Coinciding with this CC-change, the network also announced it’s premiering Emily Heller’s first one-hour special, Ice Thickeners, this Friday exclusively online via the recently launched …
Joel Kim Booster doesn’t like having to drive in Los Angeles, but he explains why in this performance from Wednesday’s Late Late Show. Unlike most people these days, at least he owns his stupidity. And he’s willing to suffer through some bad dates because of it. Holy guacamole! Roll the …
Congratulations to this year’s class of “10 Comics to Watch,” as anointed by Variety magazine and toasted in July at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival. Variety usually compiles its list by a combination of asking industry influencers, plus forecasting based on what comics already have lined up in the coming …
“It’s never going to end. Never!” That’s Joel Kim Booster on Conan on Halloween, comparing 2017 to a horror movie that you think you’ve survived, only to find out it’s still not over yet. Roll the clip!
Formerly known as Comedy Central Presents, and later The Half Hour, Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… will deliver 13 new half-hours of stand-up comedy from up-and-comers, coming at you in back-to-back episodes late Friday nights this fall starting Sept. 15, 2017. This season, filmed like last year in New Orleans, features Adam Cayton-Holland, Anthony …
Remember when seemingly every comedian who ever called him or herself a comedian taped half-hour submissions earlier over the winter? They started finding out from Comedy Central last week, and here’s the full list of stand-ups recording what’s now being called Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… These first 14 half-hours also …
