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A Sex Trafficking Story – My Night On The Streets of South Africa

“And though she be but little, she is fierce”.  William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a far cry from where I found myself this night, but I couldn’t help […]

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    Nick Offerman: Stand-up Comedy’s Handyman Gets the Job Done

    You have got to love a person who bills themselves as “Actor, Author, Humorist, Woodworker” before giving you their list of credits, especially if their list of credits is as […]

    • Mar 22, 2023
  • Brian Posehn
    Stand-up comedian, metal marauder and comix giant Brian Posehn has new tricks up his long sleeves

    Quirked-out stand-up comedy’s gentle giant and resident thrash metal fanatic Brian Posehn, has a new stream-able comic special, Posehna Non Grata, on the market, along with prepping for an April […]

    • Mar 20, 2023
  • Stand-up comedian and RoastMaster General Jeff Ross: Born to Roast

    Stand-up comedian and writer Jeff Ross would be a wildly observational and cuttingly caustic – yet hopeful, even positively poignant – comic artist even if had not discovered the roast […]

    • Mar 15, 2023
  • Stand-up comedian and one-time SNL writer Nimesh Patel rocks onward

    When stand-up comedian and one-time Saturday Night Live scribe Nimesh Patel wraps up his latest live showcase, the “Lucky Lefty Tour,” with dates in Philadelphia (March 10 at the Kimmel […]

    • Mar 9, 2023
  • Aida Rodriguez
    Stand-up comedian Aida Rodriguez has more than a few things to say and more than a few ways in which to say them in her very own way

    If Aida Rodriguez only made incisive stand-up comedic looks at the family, freedom, social politics, love and the multi-culturalism of her Puerto Rican/Dominican upbringing and the Latin continuum with specials such as Fighting […]

    • Mar 6, 2023
  • Roy Wood Jr
    Stand-up comedian and Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. hits the road before his 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner host gig

    One of the first things that I remembered when eternally perturbed, always put-upon Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. set his gig as the host, roaster and entertainer for 2023’s White […]

    • Mar 1, 2023
  • chris rock
    The Super Bowl of stand-up comedy specials: Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage at Netflix

    From the moment that stupid Will Smith’s hand left Chris Rock’s face last year at the Oscars, you knew that the stand-up comic legend was going to make something of […]

    • Feb 28, 2023
  • Roald Dahl
    Censoring Roald Dahl, James Bond, what’s next (ask stand-up comedian Ricky Gervais)

    In a whirlwind weekend of marsh-hellowing censorship related issues, authors such as Roald Dahl (and his children’s books) and Ian Fleming (Bond, James Bond) steeled against the upcoming storm of […]

    • Feb 27, 2023
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    Stand-up comedian Jim Jeffries: the Cocaine Bear of Comedy

    No one would ever call Australian-born stand-up comedian Jim Jeffries politically correct. Up until very recently, no one would have called Australian-born stand-up comedian Jim Jeffries celibate, sober, or not […]

    • Feb 27, 2023
  • Michael Cruz Kayne
    Stand-up comedian and Colbert Late Show writer Michael Cruz Kayne says ‘Sorry for Your Loss”

    While television audiences know stand-up comedian and writer Michael Cruz Kayne from his work on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (for which he’s been gifted a Peabody Award) for starring in the […]

    • Feb 24, 2023
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