Clint Nohr’s website bio describes stand-up comedy as coming from a “warped and twisted, yet somehow always relatable point of view.” Nohr proved that once more last month. He worked a two-week gig at Jokers Wild, the comedy club insi…
Continue ReadingBrian Baron might not have started his comedy career until middle age, but he managed to touch the hearts of many stand-up comedians in New York City over the past decade. The city’s young and up-and-coming comics all knew of Baron, as he hosted …
Continue ReadingJimmy Smith, a comedian and musician who hosted the Comedy Connection open mic during the Boston comedy boom of the early 1980s and who himself opened for some of the biggest names in music for 30 years, died on March 11. Smith was 66. In June 2017, wh…
Continue ReadingIn the 1980s, they may have called him Bruce, but comedians still lovingly called him Johnny. Johnny Yune, born Jong-seung in 1936 in the southern half of Korea when it had fallen under Japanese rule, who broke barriers in America as a stand-up comedia…
Continue ReadingNBC’s late-late show, A Little Late With Lilly Singh, tapes well in advance, which means that even though we’re no congregating in large groups, we can still see what that was like. Here’s Kelsey Cook joking about how her marriage to …
Continue ReadingMaysoon Zayid is an actress, comedian, and disability advocate, who has attracted more than 16 million views to her 2013 TED talk, “I Got 99 problems…palsy is just one.” A decade before that, Zayid co-founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival….
Continue ReadingFor his 60th birthday in 2017, Rich Vos received a roast for a lifetime at The Comedy Cellar’s Village Underground, a venue that his friends joked, he can’t even get booked at! The Vos Roast was uploaded in 2018 to Vimeo On Demand. Now it&#…
Continue ReadingFor his 60th birthday in 2017, Rich Vos received a roast for a lifetime at The Comedy Cellar’s Village Underground, a venue that his friends joked, he can’t even get booked at! The Vos Roast was uploaded in 2018 to Vimeo On Demand. Now it&#…
Continue ReadingThere’s a new stand-up showcase series to keep you company during the coronavirus quarantine, thanks to Comedy Central and Refinery29. CC x R29: Taking the Stage, a short-form stand-up showcase, premiered Tuesday on Comedy Central’s Stand-Up YouT…
Continue ReadingA new documentary about stand-up, This Is Stand-Up, gets its world premiere this coming Sunday (Easter) with limited commercial interruptions on Comedy Central. “This is Stand-Up is at heart a love letter to these amazing people,” says Prod…
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