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March 29, 2016

Watch 5 Trailers for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season Two

Season Two of the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is just over two weeks away. If you can't bear the excitement, and need a Kimmy-fix, you'll be thrilled to know that Netflix just released 10 trailers, one for every social media platform, to watch and enjoy.
March 29, 2016

Comedywire and Gotham Comedy Club Hosting Joke Writing Contest

Earlier this month, comedy website Comedywire announced that they were hosting a contest for up and coming writers that could help put one lucky stand-up on the map. In collaboration with Gotham Comedy Club owner Chris Mazzilli, the social joke writing platform will be taking daily submissions of written jokes from its users.
March 28, 2016

Stress Factory Promises Audience They Will Make It Up to Them, After Audience Walks Out During Margaret Cho Show

The Stress Factory released an official statement today after video of an incident at the club was posted on TMZ.com. TMZ had reported that a fight broke out during Margaret Cho's performance Saturday night and that many patrons left the club after Cho got a little heavy into some sensitive topics include rape. Cho, who is a victim of childhood rape herself, blamed jetlag for the incident which was partially recorded on video by an audience member.
March 28, 2016

Margaret Cho Rape Jokes Ignite Fights at NJ Club

TMZ is reporting that Margaret Cho's set on Saturday Night in New Jersey caused fights and walked a lot of the crowd. Reportedly Cho went on a tear about rape and being a rape victim and complained about white people having it so easy.
March 28, 2016

Comedian’s Heckling Video Goes Viral Over Weekend

This video of comedian Steve Hoffstetter was posted over the weekend, and according to a Hoffstetter, went to #1 on reddit, was the number 1 trending topic on Facebook, was on the front page of Worldstar and got almost 2 million views. Well 1.6 million but close enough.
March 28, 2016

Carlos Mencia Mentors His Openers, NYC Gets a New Room, and A New Festival PLUS News from Ted Alexandro, Nore Davis and Lingerie Comedy

Jeffrey Gurian is a writer and comedian in New York who loves to Jump Around. Follow his regular column, right here, to find out what’s happening in comedy, and who Jeffrey Gurian ran into this week in and around New York. This week Jeffrey covered the scene at Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, The Stand, and new venue, The Comedy Loft.
March 27, 2016

Dave Chappelle Kills With Caitlyn Joke at Hollywood Palladium…But at Least One Person Wasn’t Laughing

TMZ and Perez Hilton are reporting that Dave Chappelle did somewhere between five and ten minutes about Caityn Jenner during his show at the Hollywood Palladium this weekend.
March 27, 2016

Watch the Trailer for New Jonah Hill Comedy, War Dogs

Jonah Hill and Miles Teller, who you might remember from Whiplash, are War Dogs. The term refers to bottom feeders who make money off of war without ever stepping on the battlefield. It's a comedy, but it's also based on the true story of who twenty-somethings who bid on, and US Military contracts by exploiting a government initiative and underbid the competition.
March 27, 2016

Katt Williams Explains His Fight With 17-year-old Kid

Katt was onstage in Brooklyn at the Barclay center Friday night, and took some time to explain what happened in his fight with that 17 year old kid that's been racing around the internet all week. He said he was teaching the kid a lesson for his own good.
March 26, 2016

Jimmy Fallon Gives a Musical Tribute to Garry Shandling, Sings Theme Song

The Tonight Show surprised the internet when they taped Thursday's show without any reference or tribute to Garry Shandling who is such a big part of the show's history and legacy. Instead Fallon opted to wait until Friday, after his monologue, to pay tribute to the comedy legend.
March 26, 2016

Greg Giraldo Biography Coming Later This Year

Comedy enthusiasts Matt Balaker and Wayne Jones have launched a website for their upcoming biography of the late, legendary comic Greg Giraldo. The as-yet untitled book has been a work in progress since Balaker launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the project in September of 2015. The writer hit his $3,000 goal within two weeks of creating the Kickstarter page, and has spent the time since then collecting photos of the comedian and interviewing his friends, family, and comedy peers.
March 25, 2016

Andrew Dice Clay To Guest on Unmasked Part 2 with Ron Bennington at SiriusXM

Huge Unmasked Taping Announcement in New York City!! After a riveting appearance on Unmasked last November, Andrew Dice Clay returns to SiriusXM to sit down with host Ron Bennington for another episode of Unmasked and you can request tickets!
March 25, 2016

Comedian Gad Elmaleh Announces ‘Oh My Gad’ U.S. Theater Tour

Moroccan French comedian Gad Elmaleh recently announced that he will be taking his all-English stand up show, Oh My Gad, on a tour of a handful of theaters across the U.S. Elmaleh, who regularly sells out stadiums across Europe, has had to play to a smaller audience here in North America while he continues to build a name for himself among American comedy fans.