The lineup for Comedy Central’s new comedy and music festival – the adorably titled Colossal Clusterfest – is finally here,… MORE
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Comedy Central announced a new comedy/musical festival today, and the lineup for it is jam-packed with comedians and musicians. Called the Colossal Clusterfest, the festival has been in the works since last year and takes place in San Francisco from Friday, June 2nd through Sunday the 4th, and there are tons of comedians slated to […]
Continue ReadingAlmost as if I’d just produced my annual list of comedy festivals and asked the folks at Superfly for details about their planned summer shindig with Comedy Central in San Francisco, here comes Colossal Clusterfest! It’s happening June 2-4, 2017, at the Civic Center Plaza & Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, in San Francisco. Roll the […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from John Oliver’s appearance on last night’s Daily Show, where he chats with Trevor Noah about comedy’s role in today’s political climate, why he hates most of the headlines about his Last Week Tonight segments, and how he feels about doing a weekly show instead of a daily one like Noah. “There’s […]
Continue ReadingBack in September, Comedy Central ordered a new standup special from Kurt Braunohler, and today the network released a clip to get you excited. Titled Trust Me, the hourlong special was filmed at Portland’s Revolution Hall in September and makes its debut this Friday, March 3rd at midnight. Check out a sneak peek from the […]
Continue ReadingBack in September, Comedy Central ordered a new standup special from Kurt Braunohler, and today the network released a clip to get you excited. Titled Trust Me, the hourlong special was filmed at Portland’s Revolution Hall in September and makes its debut this Friday, March 3rd at midnight. Check out a sneak peek from the […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re wondering why I haven’t gotten back to you about your stand-up comedy album, then please allow me to remind you just what kind of comedy boom you’re a part of these days. In 2015, TV networks and streaming services produced 44 stand-up hours (or specials). That seemed like a lot. In 2016, that […]
Continue ReadingBefore getting onstage in Atlanta to perform, Roy Wood, Jr. rifles off a list of life lessons to his 9-month-old… MORE
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Trevor Noah is off this week from his Comedy Central gig — The Daily Show is airing best-of packages instead. But there’s a new hour from Noah on Netflix, Afraid of the Dark, filmed this past November (the weekend before the election, in fact, during the New York Comedy Festival), and I’ve written about it […]
Continue ReadingHard work, determination and an honestly funny outlook on life pays off. Just ask Roy Wood Jr., or rather, watch Wood’s first stand-up hour special, Father Figure, on Comedy Central. After a two-decade climb through comedy clubs and radio stations across the South and later, across America, through a finalist finish on Last Comic Standing and […]
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