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Comedy

Five questions for the funnyman

Ahead of his upcoming Helium stop, we caught up with comedian Jim Norton

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    Stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco goes back-in-the-day with new Netflix special “Is It Me?”

    I’ve spent a lot of time with superstar stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco on his rise to comedy’s upper echelons (the newest example being his brand new Netflix special “Is It […]

    • Dec 12, 2022
  • Jay Pharoah
    “A pretty good and ubiquitous product”: Stand-up comedian Jay Pharoah starts his winter tour this weekend

    To most audiences, Jay Pharoah is a keen impressionist with stalwart acting abilities and a smug, savvy sense of humor that have made his talents applicable to sketch shows such […]

    • Dec 9, 2022
  • Best Comedy Club Shows This Week Across The US: December 5th – December 11th, 2022

    Hilarious Habibis Presents: Comedy for Human Rights in Iran, Monday, December 5, 2022 Comedy, rights and free speech go hand in hand across the globe. We must all agree, however, […]

    • Dec 5, 2022
  • matthew silver
    Comedy Clubs Across the U.S. November 28 through December 4, 2022

    BKLYN Comedy Club Presents Happy Hour, Monday, November 28, 2022 I would not normally hit you with something vague such as this (though I would say that this weekly list […]

    • Nov 28, 2022
  • steve o
    Steve-O’s stand-up comedy Bucket List Tour is a hard kick in the nuts. Again.

    From its first dates in Philadelphia (Nov 29, Keswick Theatre), Baltimore (Nov 30, The Lyric) and Manhattan (Dec 1, Town Hall) to its final gig in Santa Rosa, Cali (Jan […]

    • Nov 28, 2022
  • dave chapelle
    Dave Chapelle, Louis CK and the Controversy of the Grammys’ Best Comedy Albums

    Last week, when the National Academy for the Recording Ars and Sciences dropped it annual noms for Best Comedy Album for its Grammy Awards, there was a handful of safely […]

    • Nov 22, 2022
  • daphnique springs
    The Best Comedy Clubs Across the U.S. November 21 through November 27, 2022

    Daphnique Springs, Nic Novicki, Aminah Imani, Joe Opio, Monday, November 21, 2022 This is a long list of comics for a Monday night, but come early and stick around for […]

    • Nov 21, 2022
  • Hecklers
    Heckling in Comedy Clubs

    “To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.”  –  Lenny Bruce. […]

    • Nov 14, 2022
  • Comedy Clubs in the USA, November 14 to Nov 20

    Mike Mancussi Monday, November 14, 2022 I love how stand-up comedian and comedy club entrepreneur and presenter Mike Manscusi cuts to the chase in his purposely vague and misleading bio: […]

    • Nov 14, 2022
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    The Comedy Club in 2022: Haven or Hell

    Check Out the Best Comedy Clubs

    • Oct 14, 2022
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