The 26th annual Critics Choice Awards declared a tie tonight, with both Michelle Buteau’s Welcome to Buteaupia and Jerry Seinfeld’s 23 Hours to Kill named Best Comedy Special of 2020. Other winners included Palm Springs, the Andy Samberg an…
Continue ReadingThe 26th annual Critics Choice Awards declared a tie tonight, with both Michelle Buteau’s Welcome to Buteaupia and Jerry Seinfeld’s 23 Hours to Kill named Best Comedy Special of 2020. Other winners included Palm Springs, the Andy Samberg an…
Continue ReadingTony Hendra has died at 79. His wife, Carla Hendra, told The New York Times the cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, which was first diagnosed in 2019. Tony Hendra began his career at Cambridge University with t…
Continue ReadingOvernight, an FBI wanted plea on Twitter became a mourning ground for comedy fans as it slowly dawned on many of them that what, at first, jokingly appeared to be comedic actor Jay Johnston in photos from the U.S. Capitol insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, …
Continue ReadingFor his sixth appearance on The Tonight Show, Pete Lee filmed this set from Acme Comedy Co. in Minneapolis. He’s happy to be back performing for live audiences, even more so at his home club. If you want more where this came from, Lee also just f…
Continue ReadingThere’s a new episode of “The Set Up” from Team Coco Originals, and it’s the 12th in an ongoing series, so a great time as any to check in with the webseries in which J.P. Buck, the longtime comedy booker and producer for CONAN, sits …
Continue ReadingIf you’re on the go and just need a fast laugh, and wondering why Quibi hasn’t filled that need for you, well then, now Netflix has something for you. It’s called Fast Laughs. From Netflix HQ: Fast Laughs offers a full-screen feed of …
Continue ReadingWhile waiting for VIacomCBS to flip the switch and relaunch CBS All Access as Paramount+, I thought, hey, why not see what’s cooking, so to speak, over on Discovery+? After all, they’re promising 55,000+ real-life TV episodes on the new Dis…
Continue ReadingRichie Tienken, the founding owner of The Comic Strip on New York City’s Upper East Side and former manager of Eddie Murphy and Adam Sandler, has died. As Sandler said back in 2012 for a TV tribute to Murphy: “I tried to do everything he did in h…
Continue ReadingRichie Tienken, the founding owner of The Comic Strip on New York City’s Upper East Side and former manager of Eddie Murphy and Adam Sandler, has died. As Sandler said back in 2012 for a TV tribute to Murphy: “I tried to do everything he did in h…
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