Headliners with Joel Kim Booster and Zainab Johnson at Melbourne 2024
by **** 1/2 (out of 5) Easter weekend and Ramadan coinciding with the start of the Melbourne festival felt fortuitous for visiting American stand-ups Joel Kim …
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Here are Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch for 2019
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 …
EPIX presents Unprotected Sets
I have some problems with Unprotected Sets. Not a big fan of the title. Definitely not a fan of the promotional poster and imaging, which …
Zainab Johnson on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Zainab Johnson grew up Muslim with lots of siblings. But you may not recognize her if you’d seen her for the seven years she walked …
Episode #219: Zainab Johnson
Zainab Johnson had other plans for her life, perhaps professional basketball or teaching, before a tragic accident changed her life and her worldview. Johnson tells …
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Discovery spins off Cash Cab into an elevator with webseries game show, Cash Lift
After successfully reviving Cash Cab this month with original host Ben Bailey accompanied by celebrity cameos in his NYC taxi cab, the Discovery series has …
HBO sets lineup, premiere for All Def Comedy hosted by Tony Rock
All Def Comedy, the latest stand-up comedy project from executive producer Russell Simmons, will premiere Saturday Nov. 12, 2016, on HBO. Tony Rock hosts the …
First impressions, New Faces Unrepped at Montreal’s Just For Laughs 2014
For all of the artificial and natural word-of-mouth buzz that happens each July in Montreal, perhaps the most likely to produce buzz event of Just …
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Here are Montreal’s New Faces: Unrepped 2014 at Just For Laughs
On Monday night, Montreal’s Just For Laughs and ComedyPro Conference announced most of the New Faces of Comedy for this week’s festivities. Generations of stand-up …
Last Comic Standing, Season 8, “Semi-Final Day 2” RECAP
Are you ready for the second half of our semifinals in season eight of NBC’s Last Comic Standing? Ready or not, here it comes. And …