The hottest comedy club of 2020 isn’t New York City’s Comedy Cellar nor even The Comedy Store in West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. It’s nowhere near New York or Los Angeles. It’s not even a club, per se, but rather an outdoor…
Continue ReadingSebastian Maniscalco met Pat McGann in the early 2010s, when Mansicalco was headlining Zanies in Chicago and McGann was the house MC. They eventually became friends and working partners, with McGann warming up the audience for Maniscalco’s Showtime spe…
Continue ReadingShocking absolutely nobody, both the Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin and the New York Comedy Festival finally announced they were abandoning plans to put on fests in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moontower, which happens in April under normal …
Continue ReadingComedy Central is continuing its nostalgia trip into the early 1990s… After previously green-lighting reboots or reimaginings or revivals or whatever-you-may-call-thems of Beavis and Butt-Head and a Daria spin-off, Comedy Central now has announce…
Continue ReadingHBO is ready to make its big re-splash into stand-up comedy, unveiling four new comedy specials on the same day later this month on HBO Max. Here’s the teaser trailer: The Summer Comedy Festival programming binge, will feature solo specials from&…
Continue ReadingThe inaugural Tournament of Laughs from TBS has wrapped and declared a winner. Would you believe…Piff the Magic Dragon? Sunday’s finale, hosted by Jason Sudeikis, saw the final four competitors quickly winnowed to two, with Piff beating out…
Continue ReadingThis is a first: America’s Got Talent isn’t waiting for you to watch any more episodes on NBC before revealing who are the 44 acts remaining that will compete in the live shows this August. Among them: comedians Alex Hooper, Usama Siddiquee…
Continue ReadingThe Laugh Factory’s Chicago club has announced it will reopen this Saturday (Aug. 1), in accordance with the city of Chicago’s reopening guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. The club plans to put on shows on weekends only through Septem…
Continue ReadingCongrats to Jim Gaffigan, who has become the first stand-up comedian to attract at least one billion streaming listens of his comedy tracks in the digital age! Gaffigan recently broke the billion-stream barrier on Pandora, the streaming audio app that&…
Continue ReadingFor the first week of “Judge Cuts” on the 2020 season of America’s Got Talent, the contestants performed separately from the show’s four judges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That meant that most of them also could do something u…
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