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Hot off a monthlong run of critically-acclaimed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Chris Gethard will mount an Off-Broadway run for his one-man show, “Career Suicide,” presented by Judd Apatow. Chris Gethard: Career Suicide will play The Lynn Redgrave Theater (45 Bleecker St.), with previews starting Oct. 5, and an official opening …
The CW’s MADtv 20th anniversary reunion special this January wasn’t a one-off. Far from it! The network announced today it has ordered eight new hours of the sketch comedy series, to air in primetime, with a brand-new cast and guest hosts provided by the old MADtv guard from when it …
Neal Brennan knows it’s odd to give John Legend top billing as the presenting executive producer of his new show, 3 Mics, which officially opened its Off-Broadway run Thursday night at the Lynn Redgrave Theater (45 Bleecker). Brennan could poke fun at Legend with a zinger. He could tell a funny anecdote …
Watching Mike Birbiglia‘s new off-Broadway show in the afternoon of the Academy Awards proved even more fitting than I could have anticipated. Thematically, the narrative thru-line connects most of his jokes in Thank God For Jokes to the night he hosted the Gotham Awards for independent film in New York City in 2012. …
Mike Birbiglia’s latest stand-up tour is headed Off-Broadway, back to the same theater at 45 Bleecker St. where Birbiglia developed Sleepwalk With Me. Mike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes will play Lynn Redgrave Theater, with previews beginning Feb. 2, 2016, and an official opening Feb. 11. “I’m so excited to be …
Not all of the new Broadway musicals staged in New York City are based on hit movies. Rehearsals began last week for HA! The Musical, and no, it’s not based on the old Times Square comedy club. but yes, it is a completely and seriously silly look at the world …
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Catskills attracted the crowds and the comedians alike. Several decades later, it’s a much different story. CBS Sunday Morning profiled the upstate New York conclave, and how “Borscht Belt” comedy has survived the changes by moving to where the audiences are. “Every comic did …
