The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For his next to last trick, The Amazing Johnathan stunned a crowd in Las Vegas last week by saying goodbye to his performing career and announcing he has less than a year to live due to a failing heart. The comedy magician who was huge in the 1980s and performed …
Las Vegas is going to be full of even more dummies after Thanksgiving. The world’s most popular ventriloquist, Jeff Dunham, will settle in for a six-month residency at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino starting Nov. 28. Dunham’s show, “Not Playing with a Full Deck,” will go on two times …
Las Vegas may have countless entertainment options in and around the Vegas Strip of resorts and casinos, but when it comes to comedy, it remains home mainly to men. The comedians with short- or long-term residencies in Vegas right now? Carrot Top (Luxor), Terry Fator (The Mirage), Vinnie Favorito (The Flamingo), Andrew …
The comedian George Wallace has lived a literal rags-to-riches story. Wallace, 61, had sold rags before moving to New York City and selling ads before one of his clients opened The Comic Strip and invited him to try his hand at stand-up comedy. That led to a career change, a …
Carrot Top was headlining shows on the Las Vegas Strip when I launched The Comic’s Comic in Vegas six years ago, and the prop comic born Scott Thompson still is entertaining Vegas crowds today — headlining at the Luxor six nights a week. Here’s the new Luxor promo clip for Carrot …
Shout out to George Wallace for his stand-up performance on Wednesday night’s episode of The Arsenio Hall Show! Wallace — introduced by Arsenio as “Mr. Vegas” — kept it real and kept it topical by referencing the acts before him on the show, as well as audience members. Wallace also …
Kenneth Brown, who went by Kd Brown on Facebook and KD, K.D. or Kenny Brown elsewhere, was killed early Monday morning after tacking a shooter wreaking havoc inside the nightclub of the Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. Brown was 40. He’d recently moved to Vegas from Los Angeles. Bally’s …
Mr. George Wallace is an all-star comedian, and this weekend, he’ll be celebrated by his fellow comedians as a Comedy Icon during the Centric Comedy All-Stars special. Wallace told The Comic’s Comic it’s more of a lifetime achievement award. You can see what it actually is when host Bill Bellamy, …
For two decades, trivia listings on Wikipedia, IMDB and other websites listed Janeane Garofalo as married. Despite her many jokes and serious statements over the years on stand-up comedy stages, TV shows and other appearances to the contrary, in which the comedian and actress claimed she’d never get married, Garofalo …
Fans of Gabe & Jenny, aka Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate, can rejoice knowing they finally have two new episodes of “BESTIE X BESTIE” to learn more about their Brooklyn alt-comedy darlings. In this first video, have your own balloon handy and find out about an important moment in Jenny’s …
