Billy Eichner’s “Ex-Husbands” picked up by Amazon Films

Billy Eichner is jumping head first into feature films. A while back, it was announced that Eichner was working on… MORE
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Gagging order: is it ever OK to heckle a comedian?

A set-ruining act of boorishness, or a vital rite of passage for standups? Often it depends on who’s doing the hecklingIn the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and set…

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Tim Renkow: ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide made me crash my wheelchair into a ditch’

The American actor, writer, comedian and standup on the things that make him laugh the mostDave Chappelle: For What It’s Worth. I mean that’s not the real answer for a comedian. For a comedian, the funniest standup you can see is always going to be wat…

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“The Ms. Pat Show” is coming to BET+ on August 12th

 If you don’t know who Ms. Pat is, you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. The comedian… MORE
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Dave Chappelle, Tina Fey, Bo Burnham, Jason Sudeikis, and more round out Variety’s Comedy Impact Report

Over the last 12 months, making sure we were kept laughing has been a super vital tool. To pay tribute… MORE
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Middle Eastern stand-ups: ‘People assume we only do terrorist jokes’

Tired of racism on the comedy scene, Jenan Younis started her own night Weapons of Mass Hilarity – where gags about body hair and Farsi aboundEvery comedian expects rejection when they’re starting out. But an email mix-up convinced Jenan Younis that he…

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Middle Eastern stand-ups: ‘People assume we only do terrorist jokes’

Tired of racism on the comedy scene, Jenan Younis started her own night Weapons of Mass Hilarity – where gags about body hair and Farsi aboundEvery comedian expects rejection when they’re starting out. But an email mix-up convinced Jenan Younis that he…

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The Comedy Store is launching a new record label

Next April marks the 50th anniversary of what is arguably one of the most well known comedy clubs in the… MORE
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Jackie Mason: compellingly blunt joke-teller who was part of standup history

Though in later years he fell from fashion, his rabbinical style in early routines felt very much like live comedy’s native tongueIf Jackie Mason could speak to us now, he’d surely be reporting back on the amusing ways in which Jews do the afterlife. B…

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Jackie Mason: compellingly blunt joke-teller who was part of standup history

Though in later years he fell from fashion, his rabbinical style in early routines felt very much like live comedy’s native tongueIf Jackie Mason could speak to us now, he’d surely be reporting back on the amusing ways in which Jews do the afterlife. B…

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