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Stand-up contest at inaugural Palm Springs comedy fest includes cash prize and Step1 special
The inaugural Palm Springs International Comedy Festival (PSICF) www.PalmSpringsComedyFest.com continues to come together nicely, a month before kick off. The festival already announced that it’ll present Kathy Griffin with the “Comedian of the Year” Award, and Illeana Douglas the “Pioneer in Comedy Award.” That’s in the first weekend, Nov. 9-11. In the second weekend, Nov. 16-18, the fest will […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central will air “The Fall of Trump,” a special documentary from The President Show
The team from Comedy Central’s The President Show will return to the airwaves this October by coming back from the future. To be precise, A President Show Documentary: The Fall Of Donald Trump is set in the year 2030, looking back at the final days of the Trump Administration. Creator, Executive Producer, Star and Commander in Chief himself, Anthony […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central will air “The Fall of Trump,” a special documentary from The President Show
The team from Comedy Central’s The President Show will return to the airwaves this October by coming back from the future. To be precise, A President Show Documentary: The Fall Of Donald Trump is set in the year 2030, looking back at the final days of the Trump Administration. Creator, Executive Producer, Star and Commander in Chief himself, Anthony […]
Continue ReadingHappy 20th anniversary to the U.S. edition of Whose Line Is It Anyway
When people talk about the longest-running TV shows in American history, will they remember to mention Whose Line Is It Anyway? Before August 1998, improvisational comedy wasn’t even really seen on television. Certainly not as the main attraction. But on Aug. 5, 1998, Whose Line made the move from British telly (and Comedy Central) to […]
Continue ReadingKathy Griffin Looks Back on Her Severed Trump Head Photo Controversy and This Year’s WHCD on ‘Late Night’
Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers chats with Kathy Griffin about the controversial photo she tweeted holding a bloody mask made to look like Donald Trump’s severed head last year, the ensuing backlash she received in the many months that came after it, and the time Jim Carrey reached to […]
Continue ReadingAfter a year in show business exile, comedian Kathy Griffin announces new U.S. theater tour dates in 2018
Kathy Griffin is ready to face the limelight again. On Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, Griffin announced that she has booked several theater dates across America for her “Laugh Your Head Off” tour. For the past year, she had complained that the industry had blacklisted her for a photo stunt in which […]
Continue ReadingWhere in the world is Kathy Griffin, and what is she thinking
A brand-new extensive interview with Kathy Griffin appeared today in The Hollywood Reporter, putting her on its cover as A Comic In Exile. The profile headline? “Can a Comic in Exile Come Back?” For starters, she’s not exiled. THR met her for lunch in Santa Monica and visited with her in her Bel Air mansion. […]
Continue ReadingJimmy Kimmel Predicts a Kathy Griffin Comeback: “She Is One of the Funniest People in the World. She’ll Be Bigger Than Ever”
Since the infamous Trump photo controversy in May 2017, Kathy Griffin has had an extremely challenging eight months full of lost jobs, lost friends, death threats, and federal investigations, but in a new profile for The Hollywood Reporter today titled “Kathy Griffin: Can a Comic in Exile Come Back?” the standup got candid about the […]
Continue ReadingKathy Griffin review – Trump’s nemesis laughs away the pain of persecution
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The standup leans too heavily on showbiz mudslinging here, but the remarkable story of the fallout from her severed-head stunt is uplifting comedy catharsis
American comic Kathy Griffin fainted on stage in Dublin last week, and there were doubts over whether this London gig would go ahead. Consider those doubts resoundingly dismissed: Griffin performed for two and a quarter hours without pause, motormouthing through screeds of showbiz gossip, self-promotion and an account of “how my life crumbled” when she posed for a photo with a bloodied Trump mask resembling the president’s severed head. The latter story is gripping, but there’s too much celebrity tattle around it at this sprawling show – at least for those of us with strictly limited interest in Kim Kardashian’s domestic life or the dissolute habits of American comedian Andy Dick.
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