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Feb 27 2024
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Seattle comedy club cancels shows of 4 comedians sparking 'cancel culture' debate
A longtime standup comedian says his date at a Seattle comedy club was canceled, along with three others, and he’s still not sure why. Jim Florentine said he was booked to perform at the Capitol Hill Comedy Bar later this year when two weeks after the confirmation, his agent received an email canceling the performance. “We got this email saying, listen, we did some research, and you basically
KOMO NewsFeb 29 2024
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Seattle CHAZ-area comedy bar cancels comedians’ performances for betraying ‘progressive values’
We’re independent and can’t be cancelled. The establishment media is increasingly dedicated to divisive cancel culture, corporate wokeism, and political correctness, all while covering up corruption from the corridors of power. The need for fact-based journalism and thoughtful analysis has never been greater. When you support The Post Millennial, you support freedom of the press at a time when
The Post MillennialFeb 27 2024
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Comedian cancelled by Seattle comedy club predicts that the venue will 'go out of business': No 'real comics'
One of the comedians who was canceled on by the Capitol Hill Comedy Bar in Seattle, Washington, is now predicting that the comedy club will fail. Kurt Metzger was one of four comedians, including Dave Smith, Luis J. Gomez, Jim Florentine, whose shows were canceled by the Capitol Hill Comedy Bar in Seattle, Washington, in a story that was first flagged by the "Jason Rantz Show." "They're going
Fox News (Online News)Aug 05 2020
Interactive Debate
Is there a limit to comedy?
In recent years, the treatment of comics who make outrageous or potentially offensive jokes has itself become a controversial topic. Outrageous jokes can be met with a social media storm condemning not only the joke, but the comedian who said it. Is there a line which comedians should not cross?
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Oct 29 2023
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Matthew Perry and Chandler on Friends: A match made in comedy heaven
Last year he told The Times: "At my audition I broke all the rules. For a start, I didn't carry any pages of the script (you're supposed to carry the script with you when you read, because that way you're acknowledging to the writers that it's just a work in progress). But I knew the script so well by this point. Of course, I nailed it... "For now, though, I was just trying to find interesting
BBC NewsDec 28 2022
Analysis
Is the right winning the comedy wars?
The biggest comedy show on late-night right now is not on ABC or NBC or CBS or Fox. It’s not on Comedy Central. It’s certainly not streaming. It’s on Fox News, and its name is Gutfeld!
Gutfeld! launched in April 2021 with the tagline “Cancel culture just got canceled” and was immediately top of its time slot among cable channels. Since August, Gutfeld! has been consistently pulling in
VoxDec 08 2023
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Norman Lear, Mel Brooks and other comedy elders make a case for the power of laughter
At a 2017 screening of “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast,” an HBO documentary about those who have lived into their 90s hosted by then-95-year-old Carl Reiner, producer Norman Lear credited the other people on the panel – fellow nonagenarians Reiner, Mel Brooks and Dick Van Dyke – with lengthening his life thanks to the power of laughter. Whatever the scientific evidence of that might
CNN (Online News)Nov 26 2023
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Tiffany Haddish Pokes Fun at Her DUI Arrest During Comedy Set: Report
Hours after she was arrested in Beverly Hills, the comedian, 43, made a joke about her DUI charge during a stand-up set in Long Beach, California. Tiffany Haddish has spoken out about her DUI arrest. On Friday, PEOPLE confirmed that Haddish, 43, had been arrested by the Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD ) and was facing a DUI charge after allegedly falling asleep behind the wheel of a car
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