Dave Flebotte talks inside comedy baseball of his Showtime series with Jim Carrey, “I’m Dying Up Here”
I’m Dying Up Here almost didn’t survive to a second season. Dave Flebotte, who with...
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Tag: Paul Provenza
Review: “Dying Laughing”
“We’re the last philosophers. Everybody now that talks is reading from a pre-approved script. Even...
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An oral history of the making of The Aristocrats movie, 10 years later
“The Aristocrats!” the punchline to an old myth of a joke that few people knew or had...
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Neil Hamburger deconstructs “Set List” with his own improvised shtick
“It used to be the comics decided what they said, not the comic-book stores decided what...
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Set List live improvised stand-up shows come to Nerdist, with a special LIVE show for YouTube Comedy Week
Set List is an American creation that first scored a TV deal across the pond, but is finally...
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Comedian Portrait-A-Day for 2013, courtesy of Dan Dion
Do you need a funny face to brighten up your days in 2013? Photographer Dan Dion is here to help....
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Showtime renews “Inside Comedy” for 10-episode second season; wither “The Green Room”?
Showtime announced today during the TV Critics Association summer press tour that Inside Comedy...
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Set List, the improvised stand-up show, scores TV deal with Sky Atlantic
After a solid year-plus of experimentation on both sides of the pond, the improvised stand-up...
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Jimmy Carr explains his theory of how laughter is tied to evolution on “The Green Room with Paul Provenza”
In the second season finale of Showtime’s The Green Room with Paul Provenza, Provenza asked...
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Sneak peek: Tony Clifton forcibly removed from Showtime’s “The Green Room”
Among the many weird things that happened this July at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival,...
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