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****1/2 (out of 5) Patti Harrison is a woman possessed. By comedy demons. No amount of content trigger warnings can prepare you for the absurdism she channels onstage, whether she’s conjuring up voices such as Bjork or Charli XCX, or opening up seemingly about her mental health and dating struggles. …
If Rachel Brosnahan’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel telling truth to 1960 wasn’t enough for you, how about the real Brosnahan and Phoebe Robinson getting together a bunch of funny women to deliver a final eulogy for 2020? That’s the premise and conceit for Yearly Departed on Amazon Prime Video. Brosnahan said …
Congrats to this year’s crop of comedians Variety will toast at Just For Laughs as its 10 Comics to Watch for 2019! They are, with descriptions provided by Variety: Fahim Anwar – Recently seen in the Comedy Central special “Goatface” with his comedy group of the same name, his special “Fahim …
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 …
Look out, Montreal’s New Faces (now sponsored by ICM!)! There’s a new comedy showcase coming for your prestige. Comedy Central’s Up Next, which debuted last year at the inaugural Clusterfest in San Francisco, is expanding in year two to include not only up-and-coming stand-ups, but also sketch comedians and variety …
The same day that President Trump announced on Twitter that he’d ban the tens of thousands of active military members who are transgender from continuing to serve, Jimmy Fallon didn’t know quite what to say in his monologue for The Tonight Show. So he asked transgender comedian Patti Harrison to …
Chris Gethard’s one-man show, Career Suicide, premieres this coming Saturday on HBO. But May 1 also marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Month, so Gethard sat down with fellow comedians Wyatt Cenac, Patti Harrison, Aparna Nancherla and Phoebe Robinson to explore different paths and experiences in dealing with depression …
