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December 30, 2015

Bill Cosby Charged With Criminal Sexual Assault

According to Deadline.com, a Pennsylvania prosecutor has charged Bill Cosby with aggravated felony assault related to the sexual assault of Andrea Constand in 2004. He will be arraigned this morning by the Montgomery County district attorney's office.
December 29, 2015

Beth Stelling Will Not Be Stopped; Rising Comedy Star Shares Abusive Past and Bright Future on Instagram

Monday afternoon rising comedy star Beth Stelling posted on her Instagram some very personal photos showing her badly bruised legs, along with a statement announcing that she has been the victim in a past abusive relationship. If you've ever seen Beth perform you know her as a powerful, confident woman, and so the revelations she shares in the Instagram are shocking and troubling on many levels. If you've seen her in person, you know she's tall, and exudes a quiet kind of strength in her demeanor.
December 29, 2015

Jerry Lewis and ‘Worst Movie Ever Made’ Joins National Film Registry

Jerry Lewis “The Day the Clown Cried" is the stuff of legends. A film so awful that you just have to see it. Lewis is the writer-director and stars as a clown who leads children to the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
December 22, 2015

Obama is a Comedian Now

The next guest on the new season of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is President Obama. This will be Obama's third time guesting on a comedy show but his first time appearing on a show that only has comedians as guests. He previously appeared on Between Two Ferns and Marc Maron's WTF.
December 21, 2015

Anthony Cumia Quickly Returns to the Air: Good Idea or Bad Idea?

Today, Anthony Cumia returned to the air only one day after being released from Nassau County Jail. There had been a lot of speculation among media and fans on Sunday and Monday, would Cumia go on air? should Cumia go on air?
December 21, 2015

Big Dan Soder News, What’s Up With Mark Normand, and A Very Special Post-Heart Attack Column

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 suffered a massive heart attack, and opened up about what happened and how he feels about it. But first he hit up Comedy Juice at Gotham, and a newly renovated New York Comedy Club.
December 20, 2015

Anthony Cumia Arrested in Long Island on Charges of Strangulation

New York Newsday is reporting that Anthony Cumia, host of The Anthony Cumia Show was arrested on Sunday morning in his Long Island home after he "got into an argument with a woman that stemmed into physical violence."
December 19, 2015

The Clubs Speak! The Best Stand Up Comedy Moments of 2015! (As Decided by the Club Owners, Bookers and People Who Produce Comedy)

Over the next two weeks, you’ll see all of our picks for the greatest comedy releases and greatest moments in comedy of 2015. But if you want to know what really happened in comedy in 2015, you have to go to the source- the comedy clubs.