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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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  • 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
  • Raquel Welch
    The first modern day bombshell with balls: Raquel Welch

    Before there was a Cara Delevingne Planet Sex docu-series, or worthy praise for Kim Petras, or a deification  of all Kardashian-Jenner women, a lionizing of Beyonce and Rihanna, and the glorification […]

    • Feb 16, 2023
  • heather mcmahan
    Stand-up comedian Heather McMahan is living (and laughing through) her truth

    With dates at Knoxville, TN’s Knoxville Civic Auditorium (Feb 17), Philadelphia, PA’s Academy of Music (Feb 18) and Washington D.C.’s Tysons (March 2-4), wily stand-up comedian Heather McMahan’s 2023 “Comeback […]

    • Feb 13, 2023
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    The NFL, Fox, Roseanne Barr and the stand-up comedian’s Cancel This!

    A funny thing happened on the way to Sunday afternoon’s NFL NFC Championship game between the (losing) San Francisco 49ers and the (way victorious, on their way to the Super […]

    • Jan 30, 2023
  • donnell rawlings
    Stand-up comedian Donnell Rawlings from “Chappelle’s Show” is still rich, biaaaaatch

    The last time that stand-up GOAT, Dave Chappelle, returned to Saturday Night Live as its host on November 12 – Chappelle’s third time hosting NBC’s SNL – he brought with […]

    • Jan 23, 2023
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