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Mar 24 2024
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Ukulele Orchestra, standup comedy, more to check out in Richardson in March and April
Community ImpactMar 23 2024
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Uncensored: 'Wait, Wait' panelists to perform stand-up comedy at Paramount Theater
Upfront Inc. presents the Wait Wait Stand-Up Tour at The Paramount Theater in Charlottesville on Friday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. The stand-up comedy show will include some of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me’s funniest panelists from NPR’s weekly quiz show hosted by Peter Sagal. You’ve heard them answering questions on Wait Wait subject to FCC limitations. Here’s a chance to enjoy a full evening of their
Augusta Free PressMar 13 2024
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NJ comics gather for Comedy All-Nighter at White Eagle Hall
“The Mayor of Jersey City comedy” continues to bring in audiences as Alex Grubard and his friends hit the big stage this weekend, giving you a healthy dose of laughter with Alex Grubard’s Comedy All-Nighter at White Eagle Hall on Saturday, March 16, at 8 p.m. The show, which features New Jersey comics, isn’t the first time Grubard has brought his brand of comedy to White Eagle, as he and Nate
nj.comMar 13 2024
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He makes comedy from depression, poverty and words like ‘eschew’
Here’s a true thing that sounds like a joke: Comedian Gary Gulman got recognized by a fellow patient in the psychiatric hospital he checked himself into in 2017. He was two dozen years into a stand-up career that had brought him solo specials for Comedy Central and Netflix, and appearances on two generations of late-night talk shows: Leno, Letterman, Conan, Colbert, Ferguson, Kimmel. (It will
Washington PostMar 26 2024
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Steve Martin’s weeklong San Francisco gig in 1975 ‘convinced him not to quit comedy’
After years of lugging around his act, Martin found himself in the spring of 1975 seriously contemplating quitting comedy after a disastrous run at the Playboy Club in the city’s Financial District. In “Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces,” Morgan Neville’s two-part film on the comedian, San Francisco is home to both the lowest point of Martin’s career and the start of his meteoric rise
San Francisco ChronicleApr 07 2024
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The Mee-Ow Show Fest celebrates comedy group’s 50th year with laugh-out-loud reunion
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss decreed April 6, 2024 as Evanston’s official “Mee-Ow Show Day” on Saturday, honoring the longest running college improv and sketch comedy show in America. “Join the observance of the day with appropriate mirth to honor people, the rights and duties of heartfelt spontaneous comedy in the practice of good citizenship,” Biss said. Biss’s speech kicked off the Mee-Ow
Daily NorthwesternFeb 28 2024
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Vermont Becomes the Place to Launch a Career in Stand Up Comedy
When Rupert Pupkin, the standup comic played by Robert De Niro in the 1982 film The King of Comedy, says, "Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime," there's a seed of hard truth for aspiring comedians in his words. Sure, Pupkin was a character with mental illness who kidnapped a talk-show host to ransom a network into letting him perform on television. And that's, you know
Seven Days NewsMar 19 2024
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Beauty queens and comedy kings: 20 iconic images that were taken on March 20
It began more than 200 years ago: a look back at St. Patrick's Day in St. Louis On March 17, 1820, a small band of Irish settlers gathered to praise St. Patrick. It was the first recorded observance of St. Patrick’s Day he… The day the Billikens sat atop the world of college basketball In March of 1948, the Saint Louis Billikens demolished the field in the National Invitation Tournament in New
St. Louis Post-DispatchMar 21 2024
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Jodie Sweetin channels ‘Full House’ dad Bob Saget with her 'inappropriate and dark' comedy
The lounge at Hollywood Boulevard’s storied Bourbon Room brimmed with pre-holiday spirit the Thursday before Thanksgiving. Actor Jodie Sweetin’s “Family Dinner” table welcomed comedians Justin Martindale, Paige Wesley and Jeff May onstage, each accepting a cocktail of choice. The live comedy show highlights both inclusivity and tradition. There are, for example. games. “This year marks the
Los Angeles Times