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In case you missed the premiere last night of Quincy Jones: Burning the Light on HBO, it’s available to subscribers now On Demand as well as HBO GO and HBO NOW. I wrote a review for my friends at Decider. Here’s an excerpt: By the time he hit the stage …
Quincy Jones is the birth name for a legendary music producer from Seattle, and also the stage name for a 32-year-old stand-up comedian who had moved from Seattle to Los Angeles to pursue his comedy dreams. In one year, comedian Quincy Jones (his birth name is Quami Wallen, but he’ll explain that …
Hot off his HBO special taping, Quincy Jones remains relatively healthy and in fine form as he performed on Monday’s Conan. Jones joked about fitting in with his white audience and friends by not only attending brunch, but also by writing Yelp reviews about his brunches. He also had some …
When Ellen DeGeneres invited comedian Quincy Jones onto her daytime talk show last week to talk about his dying wish to record a stand-up special, DeGeneres made an appeal to TV networks to pick it up for broader distribution. “But what I want also, if someone from HBO is watching …
Quincy Jones, the comedian, appeared on Ellen and talked with Ellen DeGeneres about finding out he has incurable mesothelioma in August 2015 with a diagnosis of about a year left to live. “I don’t accept it,” Jones said. Jones told DeGeneres he’s doing yoga, eating healthy and undergoing chemotherapy every three weeks. …
If you watch TV on a TV, then you undoubtedly see the law-firm ads seeking patients with mesothelioma. These lawyers hope to win huge class-action settlements against companies responsible for inflicting people with the rare asbestos-related cancer that currently lacks a cure. So if you have mesothelioma, then you’re already …
