Quibi plans daily dose of topical stand-up with “Hot Off The Mic” series

If you like what Comedy Central’s This Week at The Comedy Cellar has to offer on late-night Fridays, then Quibi hopes you’ll love even more stand-up, delivered to your phone on a daily basis. Quibi, which hasn’t yet launched but has a…

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Comedy Central documentary, “Call Your Mother,” premiering at 2020 Tribeca Film Festival

Comedy Central’s new documentary, Call Your Mother, will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2020, before debuting on Mother’s Day on the TV network. “Comedy Central is very proud to present this document…

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Taylor Tomlinson on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Taylor Tomlinson has a new Netflix special out this week, and to celebrate and promote it, she went on The Tonight Show to joke about why she shouldn’t have even thought about getting married in her 20s, and why there should be tests for driving …

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Cameron Esposito on Conan

Cameron Esposito is feeling optimistic about 2020, in part because of how much 2019 sucked for her, as she explained on Conan. Esposito went through a divorce, and coming out the other side, she dealt with an identity crisis, but here she is, ready to …

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Netflix announces first comedy festival, weeklong event in Los Angeles at end of April 2020

Netflix has dominated stand-up comedy specials for the past few years, and now it’s looking to dominate the comedy festival landscape, announcing today its first weeklong event in Los Angeles, Netflix Is A Joke Fest. The streaming giant is taking…

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Episode #292: Atsuko Okatsuka

Born in Taiwan to Taiwanese and Japanese parents, Atsuko Okatsuka is a stand-up comedian, actress and writer. Since putting out her first hour comedy special in 2018 as part of Hulu’s Comedy InvAsian series, she has made the shortlists of comedians to …

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John Mulaney leap day monologue on Saturday Night Live

John Mulaney became the first host of a Leap Day episode of Saturday Night Live in 2020, his third time overall hosting SNL. His monologue included musings about boomer dads and why they have no real friends, the ordering of amendments in the U.S. Cons…

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Doug Smith on The Late Late Show with James Corden

Doug Smith has learned quite a lot about fatherhood and parenting after being a stay-at-home dad for the past four years, as he shared in this performance on The Late Late Show.

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The Impractical Jokers movie earned

The first feature film from WarnerMedia’s truTV, Impractical Jokers: The Movie, made an impressive splash in its first weekend, landing in 11th slot nationwide despite only debuting on 357 screens. The movie took in $2.6 million over the Feb. 21-23, 20…

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