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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]