This July, Montreal felt much less funny thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down the annual Just For Laughs (Juste Pour Rire) festival and comedy conference that represented comedian summer camp as much as anything else until now. For 2020, JFL d…
Continue ReadingSad but true. Cap City Comedy Club, Austin’s shining beacon for stand-up and experimental comedy since 1986, has closed for good. Here’s the letter that went out this afternoon… Dear Austin Comedy Lovers, We laughed until we cri…
Continue ReadingSo much has transpired over just these past six months (which may have felt like six years), let alone the actual past three years since Funny or Die debuted the Pitch app for comedy writers at the 2017 Just For Laughs comedy festival… But just a…
Continue ReadingJeremiah Watkins, a comedian based out of Los Angeles who’s a staple at The Comedy Store as the bandleader of Kill Tony and part of “The Wave” at the weekly Roast Battles (Watkins also has a podcast, Jeremiah Wonders), recently dipped…
Continue ReadingAlex Hooper roasted the judges on America’s Got Talent both when he first auditioned a few years ago, and again this year, and wasn’t going to let that stop him once he became the last comedian standing in the competition’s final quar…
Continue ReadingThey’re still making comedy specials during the COVID-19 pandemic, just now at drive-in movie theaters! Last night, Colin Quinn and his funny friends filmed a special for HBO Max at the Skyline Drive-In in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on the East River …
Continue ReadingABC will air a one-hour comedy special this month encouraging Americans to vote this November, hosted by Kevin Hart. VOMO: Vote or Miss Out, created by ATTN: in partnership with When We All Vote, will air from 10-11 p.m. Eastern on Monday, Sept. 14, 20…
Continue ReadingJames Veitch’s new comedy special for HBO Max is no longer available on HBO Max, after renewed allegations of rape, sexual assault and misconduct were levied against the comedian by former Sarah Lawrence College students who had interacted with h…
Continue ReadingJames Veitch’s new comedy special for HBO Max is no longer available on HBO Max, after renewed allegations of rape, sexual assault and misconduct were levied against the comedian by former Sarah Lawrence College students who had interacted with h…
Continue ReadingA new documentary is out today On Demand that takes us behind the scenes for a revealing look at what happened to Robin Williams in his final days before he took his own life in 2014. Robin’s Wish, the untold story, is available for rent or purch…
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