The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tone Bell is an actor, writer, and comedian from Atlanta who began his comedy career in Dallas before going Hollywood. Since winning the NBC Stand Up For Diversity competition in 2011, he has co-starred or starred in multiple sitcoms, starting with Whitney on NBC and including Bad Judge, Truth Be …
NBC has picked Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York and Seattle as the host cities for its 2019 StandUp NBC auditions. Celebrating its 15th anniversary, StandUp NBC is the network’s annual nationwide search for stand-up comedians of diverse backgrounds. Notable contest alumni include Tone Bell, Michelle Buteau, W. Kamau Bell, Deon …
Gina Brillon was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, and already knew she wanted to be a stand-up comedian before she grew up, starting her career when she was still 17. Brillon became the first Latina winner of NBC’s Stand Up For Diversity competition in 2012, and since then …
Congrats to Dulce Sloan, named winner of the 12th annual StandUp NBC (formerly called Stand-Up For Diversity) contest, and with it, a talent holding deal with NBC. Former contest winner Tone Bell (NBC’s Truth Be Told, and just added to the cast of The CW’s The Flash) hosted the showcase …
Nick Guerra may have made an even better first impression with NBC than he thought. Last summer, you saw Guerra shine in his early auditions for Last Comic Standing. Last night, NBC announced he’d won the network’s separate contest, called StandUp NBC (formerly Stand-Up For Diversity). His prize is a …
Congrats go out to Gina Brillon and Jon Laster, who each has earned a one-year talent holding deal with NBCUniversal for winning 2012’s NBC Stand-Up For Diversity talent search. Jon Laster is from Denver but moved to NYC after college to pursue his stand-up career. You can find out more …
People really do win in NBC’s “Stand-Up for Diversity” showcase showdown! Tone Bell, who as part of his victory in last year’s diversity contest secured a one-year talent holding deal with NBC Universal, has been cast as a regular character in the second season of Whitney, which airs on the …
