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San Francisco's SF Sketchfest has announced an all-star slate of tributes for its 10th anniversary next month. Among the big highlights are panels toasting: – The movie Airplane!, with Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and a special appearance by Robert Hays – The 25th anniversary of It's Garry Shandling's Show with Shandling and writer …
Tonight in Los Angeles, a group of Middle Eastern and South Asian stand-up comics is kicking off a tour that aims to use their own stereotypes for good. Calling it, "FUNATICAL: Taking Comedy to the Extreme‚Äôs We Come in Peace Tour," these eight comedians are hoping that laughter can debunk …
At the last-minute, defying conventional wisdom that he was heading to the Web, Howard Stern announced this morning that he had signed a five-year contract extension with Sirius/XM, which not only pleased his fans but also the satellite radio business that relies on Stern and his fans to stay afloat. …
Los Angeles-based comedy content provider Earwolf announced last night that it is adding three new shows to its podcasting network, completing a regular weekday rotation of comedy talk shows. The first new addition, ‚ÄúWho Charted? with Howard Kremer,‚Äù debuted today. Kremer, aka Dragon Boy Suede, hosts a look at the …
Whenever you've heard over the past two years that MySpace is doing something new, you likely rolled your eyes, shrugged your shoulders, or otherwise made a figurative whatever at the gesture. You'd moved on, to Facebook, to Twitter, to Tumblr. But this time is different! No. Really. Just take a …
I don't know if you watched Dancing With The Stars this season, but comedian Margaret Cho was in the competition, as was 20-year-old single mother Bristol Palin, who you may know better as a daughter of would-be political leader Sarah Palin. In a post called "Pistol Whipped" on her blog …
In the wake of last week's misunderstanding at the 92Y here in New York City, Steve Martin has offered several "refund jokes" to his followers on Twitter, and in Sunday's edition of the New York Times, Martin wrote an op-ed that not only offered his perspective on what happened, but …
In June 2008, the Comic Strip Live comedy club in New York City established a Guinness world record for longest stand-up comedy show with a 50-hour marathon. Starting on Monday, Dec. 6, The Laugh Factory in Hollywood, Calif., plans to break that record and then some, aiming to host upward …
A remarkable thing happened earlier this week on New York City's Upper East Side. An organization, the 92Y, offered a full refund to patrons who attended an event with celebrated comedian Steve Martin. How did this happen? Why did this happen? Let us face facts. The 92Y advertised Steve Martin …
Grammy nominations came out late Wednesday night, and for comedians, it was business as usual in the Best Comedy Album category, with previous winners Flight of the Conchords, Lewis Black and Robin Williams joined by previous nominees Margaret Cho and Kathy Griffin. Sorry, newcomers! Just like some of the other …