Comedians

The Top Comedians chart is a ranking of the most popular comedians on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Google Plus, with global data provided by social media analytics company MVPindex. The chart's methodology blends social engagement on the platforms along with weekly additions of ...

On a recent Saturday, comedian Jocelyn Chia owns the room of about 100 people at Doyle's Cafe in Jamaica Plain. “I went to this all-girl Catholic high school in Singapore. Anyone else here … a slut?” she asks, pausing for just the right sliver of time before delivering the punch line to a roaring audience.

50 Comedians to Perform in July at the Stand Up Together Benefit Concert ... Comedy Connected, the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation (OSPF) and the Cuyahoga County ADAMH Board have recruited 50 comedians to perform at Stand Up Together: An Evening Honoring Nick Ramsey, a fundraiser ...

The Top Comedians chart is a ranking of the most popular comedians on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Google Plus, with global data provided by social media analytics company MVPindex. The chart's methodology blends social engagement on the platforms along with weekly additions of ...

Fer Gregory/ShutterstockThere's a big difference between the standard jokes we tell each other and how stand-up comedians get their laughs. "Stand-up comedy is not the same thing as jokes that we exchange with each other at a party," says Stephen Rosenfield, author of Mastering Stand-Up. "Really good stand-up is so ...

His parents made the difficult decision to leave. They immigrated to San Diego, California. Seven years later, in 1992, they were able to return to Lebanon. Over the years, Nemr thought about how comedians gave his parents a way to laugh during their tense years away from home. But there was a problem ...

Two comedians with a combined stage experience of several decades will grace the stage of the 11th annual Great American Comedy Festival in Norfolk in June. ... "Both comedians bring a long history of comedic brilliance to our Johnny Carson Theatre stage," said Lisa Wattier, 2018 festival chairperson.

Like many comedians in L.A., we were sad to hear about the closing of iOWest, but founder Paul Vaillancourt is planning to open a new space with Revolution Theater. The first show will be held on April 6 at 8 p.m. at The Raven Playhouse in North Hollywood. It will include three of the biggest shows that ...

Atlantic County car owners may have received an unexpected parking ticket on Sunday morning, but a closer look revealed that the violation was just a lack of laughs. ACJokes.com, a team of East Coast comedians and producers, had slipped faux parking tickets on the windshields of cars around ...

Comedians are to be licensed by the government in a new blitz on online misbehaviour. The move is designed to prevent those who spread hate speech on Twitter claiming they were 'only joking' and comes in the wake of the successful prosecution of YouTuber Count Dankula for teaching his pug to make ...

Slap bang in the heart of London is the Birdies Comedy, a night dedicated to new comedians who have been performing for less than a year, held at the Savoy Tup on Savoy Street. E-mail the organiser to book a spot on raging_bird@hotmail.co.uk. Over in east London is the Dalston Chuckles Comedy ...

Our next Comedy Records showcase happens Monday (April 2) at New York Comedy Club. As always the lineup will feature a combination of New York and Toronto's finest comedians with this month's show doubling as an album release party for Sandra Battaglini's LP, Baby Jeez. The album was ...

In the hours following the announcement on March 21, social media was flooded with 280-character obituaries written by people who frequented the Hollywood landmark, from comedians who grew their careers inside the tiny theater to comic book authors and fans for whom the retail space was a second ...

The Venture for America fellows created Actually Good, a platform that's looking to help comedians get paid while they work out their acts on the web. Meyer and Ross are Venture for America fellows currently working at tech companies. Ross, currently based in Cincinnati, is a video producer. Meyer, who ...

This separation can be a good thing — by calling themselves comedians, they are not only given the artistic power to turn their segments into whatever they want, but they're also allowed to present on topics that, in a traditional setting, are usually overshadowed by more urgent news. As a result, they can ...

The Top Comedians chart is a ranking of the most popular comedians on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Google Plus, with global data provided by social media analytics company MVPindex. The chart's methodology blends social engagement on the platforms along with weekly additions of ...

A comedian has called out Saturday Night Live over its lack of out gay men on the cast. James Adomian, who is known for his viral impersonations of former Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, called out the long-running comedy show for its consistent lack of gay male comics. While one of the show's ...

Comedians James Adomian and Jake Weisman tell The Daily Beast that the NBC sketch comedy series is bigoted when it comes to casting openly gay men. Zack Sharf. Mar 16, 2018 5:30 pm. Share This Article; Reddit · LinkedIn; WhatsApp; Email; Print; Talk. Lorne Michaels. Rob Latour/Variety/REX/Shutterstock.

The Top Comedians chart is a ranking of the most popular comedians on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Google Plus, with global data provided by social media analytics company MVPindex. The chart's methodology blends social engagement on the platforms along with weekly additions of ...

A group of squeaky-clean comedians will descend on a Ditmas Park temple on March 10, bringing wholesome routines that even your mother would love. Most of the 11 performers at “Ditmas Snark 2” bill themselves as so-called “clean comedians,” who do not need to drop an F-bomb to get a good laugh, ...

Barely a month after revealing he'd been diagnosed with cancer, comedian Barry Crimmins has died. Crimmins's wife, Helen, who's battling stage four non-Hodgkins lymphoma herself, shared the sad news on Twitter early Thursday morning. “Helen here with sad news ... Barry passed peacefully yesterday ...

Comedians are expected to make universal capital out of acts of human folly and, in doing this, they often highlight their personal failures in the process. Comedians through the ages have generally been granted a shifting form of comic license. They are supposed to poke fun at authority and to question ...

“As a comedian who is very interested in being true and personal and in using comedy, as no other art form can, to go over intimate details of one's emotional history as a way of making an audience feel less alone, I think it would be a pity if the outcome of this case meant that comedians' versions of their ...

I don't really feel comfortable speaking about the case of comedian Louise Beamont, known on stage as Louise Reay , in which her estranged husband, is suing her on the grounds that she defamed him in a standup show. Not only have two people's lives genuinely been affected, but I haven't even seen ...

I often wonder how comedians such as Gadsby dare to take a step towards their darkness before finding a way to present it to an audience. Is it therapeutic for them to constantly revisit that pain? Does it soften? Do they always feel that original ire or do they sometimes have to recreate it? And, given that ...

Famous comedians including Flip Wilson, Dick Gregory, Bob Hope, and Johnny Carson reportedly subscribed, or otherwise got jokes and training from Glason—even if not all of them wanted to admit it. “Jackie Gleason didn't want to be on record as buying the Billy Glason gag files, so he had his writer, ...

After the Louis C.K. scandal, cultural changes are trickling down to ground zero of the stand-up firmament, with female comedians arguing, "Stand-up is still one of the most sexist fields." "When your man is in a deep REM sleep, put a pillow over his face until he starts kicking," jokes New York comic Aida ...

Bridget Christie, David Baddiel, Dara O'Briain and James Acaster are among the comics playing the upmarket Hay festival this summer. They will be providing some comic relief with their stand-up performances, to contrast with such heavyweights as Gordon Brown, Michael Gove, David Milliband and ...