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Jimmy Fallon is getting used to the idea of allowing celebrity guest comedians to “tag in” for his monologues on The Tonight Show. On Wednesday night’s show, Fallon invited Billy Crystal to add several tags on a series of jokes about how old presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton …
Comedy Central and The New York Comedy Festival have expanded their annual “Comics to Watch” showcase this year, adding a second night to the events happening next week — and also distributing jokes from the selected comedians via Snapchat and Spotify to give you more ways to watch and hear them. …
Bill Burr will hit the big-time of Madison Square Garden, while Kathy Griffin, Judd Apatow and friends will play Carnegie Hall this November as headliners for the 2015 New York Comedy Festival, announced late today. The festival site will relaunch on Tuesday with the updated slate for 2015, which will …
Tig Notaro has the first and more dramatic documentaries about her recent life debuting this month at the Sundance Film Festival. Tig will screen five times this week at Sundance. It covers a trying period in Notaro’s life in 2012, when, as the film’s description notes: “Having just recovered from …
It’s never too late to get bit by the comedy bug. Cipha Sounds could have jumped headfirst into stand-up comedy a decade before he did. He told The Comic’s Comic about hanging around with Dave Chappelle one night in 2002. “We were at some party, an Eminem album release party, …
Just 24 hours after another remarkably buzzworthy performance — this time triumphantly onstage at New York City’s Town Hall for the New York Comedy Festival — Tig Notaro faced perhaps her most dangerous health scare yet. As Notaro tells it today to her Facebook friends, she had gotten offstage at …
Comedy Central’s late-night comedy “game show” and Twitter takeover expert, @midnight, is making its first road trip, heading to New York City to tape a week’s worth of shows during the New York Comedy Festival, airing Nov. 3-6, 2014. Host Chris Hardwick and the crew will tape the four broadcasts …
Amy Schumer will play Carnegie Hall this November! Bill Cosby, too! They’re among the headliners announced today for this fall’s 11th annual New York Comedy Festival, to run Nov. 5-9, 2014, across the city, presented by Caroline’s on Broadway in conjunction with Comedy Central. The festival announced the lineup through …
Houston-based stand-up comedian Ali Siddiq emerged victorious on Monday as the first grand prize winner of Comedy Central’s “Up Next” nationwide talent search contest. Fans online chose Siddiq from among nine finalists who had advanced this fall out of regional contests at network-approved comedy clubs. His prizes for winning include an …
A decade ago, I recall sending in a VHS tape to Comedy Central HQ for what they called “Laugh Riots.” Oh, VHS. Oh, my own stand-up aspirations. Anyhow. Moving on, we all did. Comedy Central then presided over a similar contest called Open Mic Fights, which had comedians from different …
