They used to compete for your laughs on morning radio, and now they’ve joined forces in the afternoon on streaming media. Anthony Cumia announced this week that Artie Lange will join him as his permanent co-host for the newly rebranded weekday broadcast, “The AA Show,” starting Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Cumia started Compound Media after […]
Continue ReadingThey used to compete for your laughs on morning radio, and now they’ve joined forces in the afternoon on streaming media. Anthony Cumia announced this week that Artie Lange will join him as his permanent co-host for the newly rebranded weekday broadcast, “The AA Show,” starting Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Cumia started Compound Media after […]
Continue ReadingThe stars of truTV’s Impractical Jokers keep shining brighter and brighter. After getting greenlit for a seventh season of pranking each other on cable television, The Tenderloins (Staten Island friends Sal Vulcano, Joe Gatto, James Murray and Brian Quinn) have not only announced the launch of a new weekly radio show on SiriusXM, but also […]
Continue ReadingMight Ricky Gervais, the comedian who first got audiences tuned into podcasts with his previous radio show, be coming back to radio? He’s got a new pilot out for SiriusXM radio, Ricky Gervais is Deadly Sirius, and you can check it out now if you haven’t heard it yet on the radio: Ricky Gervais is […]
Continue ReadingAndy Kindler didn’t last more than a minute onstage before he got sidetracked from his intended mission. Instead of one microphone to deliver his 2017 State of the Industry address at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, the festival had set up two mics, neither one near his face. That just made the screen behind him a […]
Continue ReadingHigh noon will become The Power Hour on SiriusXM come Monday thanks to stand-up comedian Godfrey. SiriusXM announced today that Godfrey will host The Power Hour daily from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern, starting Monday, July 31, broadcasting from New York City on SiriusXM’s Urban View channel (126). A call-in show, it’ll feature dynamic, and often provocative […]
Continue ReadingOK. So I’ve only sat down to podcast with 28 of the comedians performing this week so far as part of the 2017 Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. But that’s a start! Each of these fine, funny folks regales me (and now you) with inspirational stories about how they started in comedy, where they’ve […]
Continue ReadingEpisode #6 of my exclusive Laughly audio series, On Second Thought, is out now with featured guest Liam McEneaney. On Second Thought asks: If tragedy plus time equals comedy, then comedy plus time equals what now? Liam McEneaney hosted one of the more popular alternative basement comedy rooms in New York City for a decade, and turned […]
Continue ReadingAfter 13 years, there’s no more Opie or Anthony on SiriusXM satellite radio. Almost three years to the day after firing Anthony Cumia, SiriusXM fired Opie (Gregg Hughes) this week. “SiriusXM confirms it has terminated its relationship with Gregg ‘Opie’ Hughes, host of the ‘Opie Radio Show’ weekday afternoons on the Faction Talk channel. SiriusXM […]
Continue ReadingEpisode #5 of my exclusive Laughly podcast miniseries, On Second Thought, is out now with Roy Wood, Jr. On Second Thought asks: If tragedy plus time equals comedy, then comedy plus time equals what now? We all know and love Wood now as a star correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and he just hosted […]
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