On Comedy Comedy takes time — at least, good comedy does.
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Old comedy formula, meet the new comedy formula: Tragedy plus #TimesUp equals comedy.
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The show won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Comedy Series.
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His comedy company, Weirdass Comedy, is India's first and only comedy consultancy which is a one-stop shop for your comedy needs across media.
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Nominations: Comedy series, lead actress in a comedy (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), supporting actor in a comedy (Tony Hale), supporting actress in a comedy (Anna Chlumsky)
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But this is a different type of comedy — offensive comedy or comedy that could be offensive.
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There is comedy, and then there is dark comedy, and then there is Julia Davis's comedy.
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Nominations: Comedy series, lead actress in a comedy (Rachel Brosnahan), supporting actor in a comedy (Tony Shalhoub), supporting actress in a comedy (Alex Borstein and Marin Hinkle)
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Nominations: Comedy series, lead actor in a comedy (Eugene Levy), lead actress in a comedy (Catherine O'Hara)
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Nominations: Comedy series, lead actor in a comedy (Bill Hader), supporting actor in a comedy (Anthony Carrigan, Stephen Root, and Henry Winkler), supporting actress in a comedy (Sarah Goldberg)
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Fleabag won three of the night's most coveted awards in the comedy categories, including Best Comedy, Best Actress in a Comedy Series, and Best Writing for a Comedy Series.
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For "Barry," Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series; and for "Saturday Night Live" he's nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.
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In 2015, Ms. Yang and two members of Disoriented Comedy came up with the four-day Comedy Comedy Festival.
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" Bell calls the style of alt-comedy popularized by Janeane Garofalo and Marc Maron "black comedy but not Black comedy.
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Nominations: Comedy series, lead actress in a comedy (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), supporting actress in a comedy (Olivia Colman and Sian Clifford)
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In the comedy realm, the Netflix sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidtalso scored five nominations, including best comedy series, best actress in a comedy series (Ellie Kemper), best supporting actress in a comedy series (Jane Krakowski), and best supporting actor in a comedy series (Tituss Burgess).
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Clean comedy used to be my favorite kind of comedy.
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So it's a zombie comedy, but what kind of comedy?
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Graham's comedy of sadism has become King's comedy of masochism.
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Nominations: Comedy series, lead actor in a comedy (Ted Danson)
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Nominations: Comedy series, lead actress in a comedy (Natasha Lyonne)
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Comedy Mr. Regan occupies an unusual niche in modern comedy.
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Mother-daughter comedy "Lady Bird" was named best comedy film and the indie A24 movie's star Saoirse Ronan won for comedy actress.
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"I've had a lot of lunches with a lot of people that have ideas for the Comedy Hall of Fame, and the Comedy Museum and the Comedy This or the Comedy That," she said.
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Elsewhere in the comedy field Henry Winkler and Bill Hader took home the Supporting Actor in a Comedy and Lead Actor in a Comedy Emmys, respectively, for their performances on HBO's dark comedy Barry.
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Anyway, here are the pictures:Overall winner: Tibor KérczImage: Tibor Kércz/Comedy Wildlife Photo AwardsImage: Tibor Kércz/Comedy Wildlife Photo AwardsImage: Tibor Kércz/Comedy Wildlife Photo AwardsImage: Tibor Kércz/Comedy Wildlife Photo AwardsWinner, "In The Air" Category: Jon ThrelfallImage: Jon Threlfall/Comedy Wildlife Photo AwardsIt's a fart joke.
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On Comedy What does it mean that the most talked about comedy special of the year offered a biting critique of comedy itself?
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"There's the workplace comedy and there's the family comedy," Ash said.
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I mean, the left has killed comedy and late night comedy.
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Trump would make comedy better or Trump would make comedy worse.
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Bad comedy is easier to spot, and good comedy is revelatory.
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Late-night comedy often blurs the line between news and comedy.
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Comedy Last year the big comedy award went to HBO's Veep.
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Certainly not your typical comedy special, Hannah Gadsby's Nanette transcends comedy.
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Nominated for: Best musical or comedy; best actress, musical or comedy.
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In addition to Waller-Bridge's awards, "Fleabag" won the awards for best comedy series, best single-camera picture editing for a comedy series, best directing for a comedy series and best casting for a comedy series.
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That marriage was The Other Two, Comedy Central's newest half-hour comedy.
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These include Comedy Central, Comedy Dynamics, Uproar Entertainment, Laughing Hyena, Stand Up!
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It's not going to reinvent the breakup comedy or the HBO comedy.
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On Comedy LAS VEGAS — Mocking Carrot Top is a venerable comedy tradition.
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CreditCreditSean Donnola Late-night television comedy used to be exactly that: comedy.
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The Fleabag and Killing Eve creator scooped up the Emmys for best comedy series, best comedy writing and best leading comedy actress on Sunday night.
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The deal comes after Waller-Bridge won three Emmys for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Comedy Series.
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On Comedy Late-night comedy still has a mystique on Macdougal Street, where international crowds congregate every night outside the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village.
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Along with its Outstanding Comedy Series win, Fleabag took home the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series awards, and Waller-Bridge nabbed the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series honor.
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Prime Video's "Fleabag" won the Emmys for best comedy series, actress in a comedy series (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), and writing and directing for a comedy series.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her comedy Fleabag continued their awards show dominance with wins for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and Best Television Series – Comedy.
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Drunk History meets Comedy Central Roast in Netflix's newest comedy series, Historical Roasts.
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Live comedy is ... Talk about each area and where you see comedy evolving.
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The Comedy Store was the first place where it was exclusively standup comedy.
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Both are oddballs — your typical comedy fare — but understandable picks for network comedy.
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Spring comedy night, LoHud Comedy, with Alex Barnett, Liz Barrett and Adam Oliensis.
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The ultimate comedy power couple are now the ultimate literary comedy power couple.
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Shimura began his comedy career in 1974 after joining the comedy group Drifters.
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Won for: Best series, musical or comedy; b est actor, musical or comedy.
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There's an art to comedy, and an art to selling tickets to comedy.
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Tomorrow a comedy festival called "FunnYmmigrants: A Comedy Festival" begins, featuring — guess what?
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On Comedy Prank comedy has long been a limited but enduring television genre.
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That gamble paid off — Volk-Weiss eventually owned the largest library of independent comedy in the world, and Comedy Dynamics became an entirely vertically integrated comedy company.
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Nominated for: Outstanding comedy; outstanding lead actor (Aziz Ansari); outstanding writing for a comedy (Ansari and Alan Yang, "Parents"); and outstanding directing for a comedy (Ansari, "Parents").
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The animated family comedy, generally, is less steeped in the culture of the country that produces it than other forms of comedy like, say, the romantic comedy.
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A veteran of the Comedy Central roasts, she has a skill for sharp insult comedy, but her material consists mostly of observational comedy about sex and dating.
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The show won Outstanding Comedy Series, and Fleabag star and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge won Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Writing for a Comedy Series.
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The three comedy heavy hitters took the stage together at New York's Comedy Cellar.
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My bias is comedy and right now the Republicans have a lot more comedy.
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A lot of comedy writing is not very funny, especially to other comedy writers.
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Maisel won best comedy and best actress in a comedy for star Rachel Brosnahan.
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That kind of fell away when comedy—especially comedy—became such a boys' club.
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Most of the comedy on display would appear old-fashioned to US comedy fans.
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On Comedy About a decade ago, backstage at Zanies comedy club in Nashville, Tenn.
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Episodes like this are perfect for comedy because comedy is all about breaking tension.
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Late-night comedy: The comedy hosts all watched the State of the Union address.
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The New England Patriots tight end -- who's dabbled in comedy before -- is launching his own comedy special called, "Unsportsmanlike Comedy with Rob Gronkowski" ... which debuts Friday on Showtime.
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She noticed that the Comedy Cellar was advertising C.K.'s performance loud and proud, and as a frequent Comedy Cellar attendee and longtime comedy fan, she was livid.
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Maisel (Comedy Series and Rachel Brosnahan for Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series), and Netflix's Master of None (Aziz Ansari for Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series).
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So the battle isn't whether wrestling can accept comedy, but whether comedy can accept wrestling.
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I want to hear your process, because you went to comedy, went back to comedy.
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And his book is like a Buddhist "Divine Comedy", with an emphasis on the comedy.
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COMEDY BOOM Overall, there's much more interest in comedy today than there was years ago.
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Redd also had a half hour special on Comedy Central's Comedy Central Stand-up Presents.
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Beyond the Comedy Cellar, unique and powerful women are taking over comedy from every direction.
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Where is the line between comedy and psychological thriller — or between comedy and torture porn?
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These humorists run the gamut of comedy: stand-ups, improvisers, sitcom stars, sketch-comedy writers.
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Nominations: Lead actor in a comedy (Michael Douglas), supporting actor in a comedy (Alan Arkin)
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"Fleabag" won the awards for best comedy series, actress in a comedy series, and more.
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The Comedy Underground is one of them, with comedy shows in an original underground structure.
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On Comedy Has a more significant television subgenre been born this century than cringe comedy?
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There was comedy – we did comedy at the Kennedy Center for SNL – SNL came in.
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I thought, for all those reasons, the comedy about it is a comedy of hysteria.
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My style of comedy becomes "female comedy" as opposed to just plain old comedy—it's considered niche, simply because it's the perspective of a woman as opposed to a man.
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We do stuff like that gets branded as "anti-comedy," but we view comedy as just another thing to make fun of—the way comedy is presented, homogenized, and used.
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He's directed projects with his longtime comedy partner Jemaine Clement, including episodes of Clement's TV comedy / band spinoff Flight Of The Conchords, and the awkward romantic comedy Eagle vs Shark.
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Less a traditional comedy than a surreal minimalist comedy, it offers an opportunity for Rudolph to display a quality rarely seen in two-minute comedy sketches about space travel: pathos.
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At the time, the duo were performing together in a sketch comedy show called Comedy Playground.
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Well a lot of people that don't do comedy might not know, but comedy doesn't pay.
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YouTube comedy can be a particularly bad genre of comedy, but Collins' video is exceptionally funny.
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The Comedy Store on Sunset was the "Cape Canaveral" of comedy launching upcoming comics into orbit.
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At the time, the duo was performing together in a sketch comedy show called Comedy Playground.
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In the coming year, she will appear the comedy Booksmart and the horror-comedy Corporate Animals.
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For more on comedy, catch CNN's "The History of Comedy" Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
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Andre: I think our comedy point of view has always been our comedy point of view.
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CROTON FALLS Spring Comedy Night with LoHud Comedy, featuring Alex Barnett, Liz Barrett and Adam Oliensis.
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"High Maintenance" is a pot comedy only in the sense that "Cheers" was an alcohol comedy.
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This may be comedy for 5- to 10-year-olds, but it's comedy with a conscience.
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And "Veep" won for best comedy, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus winning best actress in a comedy.
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Comedy greats have poured in to express their condolences and memories of a comedy legend himself.
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The show turned stand-up comedy onto its head — many argued it wasn't comedy at all.
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Maisel, which won Best Television Series — Comedy and Best Actress in Television Series: Comedy (Rachel Brosnahan).
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Some comedy is best served bleak, which is exactly the theme behind this regular comedy showcase.
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She also has a comedy sketch show "with an identity focus" in development with Comedy Central.
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Both the Outstanding Comedy race and Waller-Bridge's Lead Comedy Actress category were all-white competitions.
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Soon, Che was performing at iconic New York comedy clubs like Caroline's and the Comedy Cellar.
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This has its own comedy, a comedy of mismatching, and in that disjunction, something profound happens.
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"In comedy you have the 'straight man,' who's basically the deadpan, flat comedy partner," Beatriz said.
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Waller-Bridge had reason to celebrate in grand style on Sunday, having won three major awards: Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Comedy Series.
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" The Comedy Store, a famous comedy club in Hollywood, paid tribute to the late star, tweeting, "Thank you Brody for sharing your Comedy and positive energy with us for so many years.
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"Comedy under Trump" became a subject of conversation almost immediately after the election: either we needed comedy more than ever or comedy wasn't enough or we shouldn't laugh or we couldn't laugh.
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Not witty comedy with its verbal arabesques, nor intellectual comedy with its Paris Review name-checks, nor meta-comedy with its scrambled plotlines — but the vanilla kind that once dominated commercial theater.
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Learn more about comedy on CNN's "The History of Comedy" Thursday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
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And Pryor — one of the comedy greats — actually taught Haddish when she attended "comedy camp" in 1997.
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I thought about it, and I tried a few other things: a surreal comedy, a sour comedy.
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Do you see the world of comedy skewing more towards a comedy-journalism hybrid in any way?
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Maybe the stunt of returning to ABC's comedy past to seed its comedy future will be enough.
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Maisel, a potentially ambitious comedy about a 1950s New York housewife learning how to do standup comedy.
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While Fox and NBC have struggled mightily with comedy, ABC is raising the ante on its comedy.
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This may be comedy for 5- to 10-year-olds, but it's comedy with a social conscience.
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This may be comedy for 58193- to 58183-year-olds, but it's comedy with a social conscience.
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Marina Shifrin, the author, is a comedy writer whose work has appeared on Comedy Central and NBC.
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In its fourth season, Comedy Central's breakout comedy is going to do a couple of things differently.
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The comedy is situational and confessional, the flat one-liners mixed in with more memorable physical comedy.
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I do shows everywhere, really — Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, also bar shows in Brooklyn.
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The experimental comedy brand Ground Floor Comedy presents this free night of sketch, stand-up and improv.
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The project's programming typically skews toward comedy — and often dark comedy — but isn't always comedic in nature.
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As a way of bolstering diverse comedy, RIOT, Refinery29's comedy branch, is partnering with TBS for a comedy lab — think of it as a petri dish filled with support for diverse voices.
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It features exclusive content from big-time titles like WTF with Mark Maron, SuperEgo, and Comedy Bang Bang, access to over 100 comedy albums, and some of the sharpest voices in comedy today.
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It features exclusive content from big-time titles like WTF with Mark Maron, SuperEgo, and Comedy Bang Bang, access to over 100 comedy albums, and some of the sharpest voices in comedy today.
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Now, he has a stack of comedy specials on Comedy Central Presents, Showtime, and Netflix, and he even appeared on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with one of his comedy heroes Jerry Seinfeld.
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True, "Jeffrey" is not an ordinary comedy; it's a comedy about AIDS, and a romantic comedy at that — a genre that shouldn't have been possible, and wasn't until Rudnick decided it was needed.
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Another notable newcomer to the comedy categories is ABC's family sitcom Black-ish, which is nominated for Best Comedy and Best Actress in a Comedy, landing Tracee Ellis Ross her first Emmy nod.
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Maisel' Where to watch: Amazon Major nominations: Best comedy series, best lead actress in a comedy series (Rachel Brosnahan), best supporting actress in a comedy series (Alex Borstein), best supporting actor in a comedy series (Tony Shalhoub), best guest actress in a comedy series (Jane Lynch), best directing for a comedy series (Amy Sherman-Palladino), best writing for a comedy series (Amy Sherman-Palladino) The creator Amy Sherman-Palladino ("Gilmore Girls") is one of a small handful of television writers whose voice is instantly recognizable — fast and quippy, with a gift for stylized dialogue that recalls Old Hollywood screwball comedies.
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The difference, of course, is that I do music-comedy where as you do music and comedy. Totally.
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In January, Comedy Central ordered a fifth season of the Emmy-nominated comedy – which has yet to shoot.
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Also hailing from Chicago, Booster has been featured on major comedy programs on Logo, Comedy Central, and Conan.
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Finding comedy in grief—or "grief comedy," as I'll call it—is currently having something of a moment.
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So, I know you spoke a little bit before about how comedy is just comedy, it's just satire.
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You both emerged from the Chicago comedy scene — do you think there's a different style to Chicago comedy?
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The Brooklyn Comedy Festival is a weeklong event (August 22-28) bringing you the best in comedy today.
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There is no other comedy other than Trump, and most of that comedy is fairly tedious and remedial.
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" He continued, gushing, "but their comedy has gotten better and better and better — and especially the physical comedy.
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I've been doing stand-up comedy for nine years, the bulk of that time spent in comedy clubs.
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Lady Bird also did well, netting best picture (comedy) and best actress (comedy or musical) for Saoirse Ronan.
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"Prime Video dominated the comedy category, including a best comedy series win for "Fleabag," beating Netflix's "Russian Doll.
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InAPPropriate Comedy, a sketch comedy show directed by the Shamwow Guy that was widely accused of being racist?
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I'm better in the dramatic world as a presence than I was in comedy—and I love comedy.
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The Comedy Cellar and the Comedy Store, that's their church and their synagogue in a lot of ways.
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In the case of comedy, from my perspective, good comedy has always been what it's always been, therapy.
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But I don't think of this as a romantic comedy, I think of it as a modern comedy.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge won for best actress in a comedy TV series and for best comedy TV series.
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Much of the difficulty for interactive comedy comes back to the clashing golden rules of interactivity and comedy.
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Nick Boshier and Jazz Twemlow are comedy writers and actors for Nice Shorts, an Australian sketch comedy series.
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What makes a good story about comedy is what makes good comedy: a fresh take and distinctive material.
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On Comedy It was probably inevitable that Dave Chappelle would do the most provocative comedy on Bill Cosby.
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It didn't take long for Comedy Central's Review to go from farcical comedy to full-on existential crisis.
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Comedy For a fourth year, Eugene Mirman and Pretty Good Friends, his comedy production company — both stalwarts of the Brooklyn alternative comedy scene — will present this fund-raiser for the environmental news website Grist.org.
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Later this month you're going to be talking ... We've been talking to a lot of people from comedy and where comedy is going, and we'll get into why, comedy online, and all kinds of things.
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In fact, he's even better known as a comedy writer and performer, as one half of the comedy sketch duo Key and Peele, stars of the cult hit Comedy Central show of the same name.
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Tomlin's 1972 comedy album This Is a Recording is both the first solo female recording to win a Best Comedy Grammy and the highest-charting solo comedy album by a woman on Billboard's Hot 100.
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In Comedy Writing Secrets, the de facto comedy-writing-101 book by Mark Shatz and Mel Helitzer, the authors list the six essential ingredients of a good comedy: Target, Hostility, Realism, Exaggeration, Emotion and Surprise.
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His secret weapon was to "Play drama as comedy and comedy as drama," Miramontez recalled the star once saying.
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Contrary to popular belief, political comedy viewers don't just watch comedy — they pay attention to traditional news as well.
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Maisel," about a 1950s housewife who turns to standup comedy, took home the Emmy for best comedy series. "Mrs.
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The comedian went on to record multiple comedy specials for Comedy Central and Netflix, including Girth of a Nation.
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He also created a comedy competition show and helped launch What the Funny, an online site for urban comedy.
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First, Scott said that stand-up comedy is booming and 50 million people go to comedy clubs every year.
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"We got in there thinking it was a stupid sex comedy and now it was our stupid sex comedy."
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Do you find either that particular era of standup comedy romantic, or the whole profession of standup comedy romantic?
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Once they get to Hawaii, the film turns into an occasionally amusing blend of vacation comedy and romantic comedy.
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So, in the wake of these allegations, women in comedy — standup, improvisors, and comedy writers alike — have started talking.
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The critically acclaimed FX comedy took home the Golden Globe for best television series, musical or comedy, on Sunday.
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They also review Keanu, an affable action-comedy from Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Comedy Central fame.
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"When we do comedy, for me, the comedy has to feel real, it has to be grounded," McBride said.
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Which is why the global rise of "Clean" comedy—and its cousin, "Christian" comedy—may come as a surprise.
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He has since returned to Los Angeles, where he was spotted at comedy club The Comedy Store on Saturday.
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I am proud to be a woman in comedy, and I am proud to support other women in comedy.
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The show nabbed four Emmy nominations this year, including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy.
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It's nice to see that we're developing a kind of citizen comedy, and it's not immigrant comedy so much.
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It's been almost two decades since the Broken Lizard comedy team premiered its indie comedy Super Troopers at Sundance.
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COMEDY Mr. Attell — the affable grouch from Comedy Central's "Insomniac," who performs Friday and Saturday at 221:227 p.m.
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"I never thought when I started out that being in comedy would mean being limited to comedy," she said.
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Mr. Yeo has made a full-time career in comedy, even though there are no comedy clubs in Singapore.
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On Comedy LOS ANGELES — To its competitors, the Netflix takeover of comedy must have seemed nasty, brutish and quick.
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The king of comedy, Charlie Chaplin, understood that a certain amount of empathy was necessary to achieve good comedy.
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Last fall, he hosted "All Def Comedy" on HBO, a remake of "Def Comedy Jam," produced by Russell Simmons.
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When I saw [Josh Thomas's Australian comedy series] Please Like Me, it was real life comedy in dark situations.
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Terry Jones -- beloved comedy icon and founding member of the "Monty Python" comedy troupe -- has died after battling dementia.
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Comedy: Finally, comedy has always been about connecting incompatible perspectives: that's why traditional comedies often end with a wedding.
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In 2016, she performed at the New York Comedy Festival, the live comedy event founded by Hirsch in 2004.
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The creators and stars of truTV's wildly popular hidden-camera comedy show announced a new comedy tour on Friday.
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Comedy Central gave $400,000 as an appearance fee for Trump appearing on The Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump.
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They had the "men of comedy" — or sorry, it was the "stars of comedy" — who happened to be men.
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Do you feel like the artistic freedom of independent filmmaking lends itself to dark comedy, more than broader comedy?
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Among the five, four are repeat categories from last year (Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Comedy Series, and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series) for his hit FX show "Atlanta," while the remaining nod is for his guest appearance in "Saturday Night Live."
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Films opening today include: "Hail, Caesar!" a comedy from the Coen brothers starring George Clooney; "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," a comedy starring Lily James; and "Tumbledown," a romantic comedy with Rebecca Hall and Jason Sudeikis.
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In 2010, Comedy Central put Workaholics into development after executive Walter Newman saw a series of comedy videos posted on YouTube by Mail Order Comedy, a sketch group starring Adam DeVine, Blake Anderson, and Anders Holm.
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On the comedy front, the aforementioned HBO Emmy favorite Veep leads the nominations with 17, including one for Best Comedy and one for Best Actress in a Comedy for series star (and producer!) Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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At first we called it a comedy and then we realized this isn't a comedy, we can't call it that.
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Jonathan Van Ness is going for comedy gold on his on his 2019 stand-up comedy tour, Road to Beijing.
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It ended the evening by taking home Outstanding Comedy Series, the top honor of the night for a comedy series.
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It will be so inventive and groundbreaking in its comedy that alt-comedy Twitter will choke on its own jizz!
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"In a horror, in a family comedy, in a body switch comedy, there are elements that are similar," he said.
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The animated comedy has now found a home on Comedy Central, which will begin airing the show on September 26th.
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It knows its wants to be an R-rated mother-daughter comedy complete with dark comedy and gross-out humor.
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When I say "women in comedy," I'm speaking of the subset of women who studied comedy as opposed to acting.
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Comedy bits like McCarthy's recent lip-sync battle with Jimmy Fallon certainly suggest that sincerity isn't a prerequisite of comedy.
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Lewis was anti-comedy, but his observations help us appreciate the real role comedy plays in helping to contain pain.
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Second, Conway, who earlier in her life had tried her hand at stand-up comedy, is now into prop comedy.
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Closing this weekend, this may be comedy for 5- to 10-year-olds, but it's comedy with a social conscience.
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In addition to developing ABC's Emmy-nominated comedy "black-ish," he is an executive producer for HBO's coming comedy "Insecure."
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He recently won the Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year for his comedy album Good Friend Bad Grammar.
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They're trying to perform comedy in these virtual reality ... And you're an Upright ... Explain how famous you are in comedy.
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They had run in the same comedy circles for years, both performing improv and writing sketch comedy in New York.
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It makes me think of the idea of comedy as rebellion, and I sense elements of comedy in your work.
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The series is up for best comedy or musical, and Eric McCormack is up for best actor in a comedy.
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Nope. It's Comedy Central, where quality comedy appears to be at a premium if ratings this year are any indication.
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The point of comedy—at least, of Morgan's kind of comedy—is that it's an opportunity to take a break.
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It captured the best-comedy Emmy twice, and Ms. Bergen won the best actress in a comedy Emmy five times.
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"Fleabag" dominated the 2019 Emmy Awards, taking home six Emmys, including best comedy and best directing for a comedy series.
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Fleabag won a number of awards, including for Best Comedy and Best Actress in a Comedy for Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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According to the group's website, they were named the New York Comedy Festival Comedy Central Comics to Watch in 2016.
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After that came comedy specials like "Girth of a Nation" on Comedy Central and "Unruly" and "Imperfectly Yours" on Netflix.
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On Comedy If Dave Attell ever retires, as he has periodically hinted for years, what will become of club comedy?
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Produced by the comedy network JASH, Dynasty's work fits into both the art and comedy worlds, creating something else entirely.
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As a live performer, I have mixed stand-up comedy and musical comedy under the persona Stoni Butchell, among others.
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The superhero comedy starring Ryan Reynolds got lots of love from the Golden Globes, earning major nods in best motion picture – musical or comedy, and best performance by an actor in a motion picture – musical or comedy.
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The workshop is meant to be a 48-hour trip to comedy boot camp — this is a comedy lab, a type of program that's become increasingly common, especially as companies continue to challenge the current comedy standard.
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The dawn of the modern manchild comedy Instead, 2007 will probably go down as the inaugural year of the modern manchild comedy, which is now waning in favor of the modern Girls Can Be Gross Too comedy.
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Across the 10 nominees in the Drama and Musical/Comedy series categories, only three shows — drama The Americans (eligible for season six), comedy The Good Place (eligible for seasons two and three), and comedy The Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel, which took home the major comedy awards last year in Veep's absence, claimed wins in both supporting acting categories: Tony Shalhoub won Supporting Actor in a Comedy, and Alex Borstein won Supporting Actress in a Comedy.
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Reed Morano won for best director of a drama for "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Veep," a comedy about a female vice president who ultimately becomes president, took home statues for outstanding comedy and lead actress in a comedy.
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One of Waller-Bridge's big moments came during this year's Emmy Awards, where Fleabag won for Outstanding Comedy Series, and Waller-Bridge won for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, a Chicago comedy duo who recounted the time C.K. masturbated in front of them during a comedy festival, say that telling people what happened immediately made them radioactive within the comedy community.
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It will be a scripted comedy, on the comedy side, with a touch of music, because this company is about music.
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" Jennifer Cross on comedy: "There was that chemistry of all the different comedy styles that you saw in the first movie.
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I never really got exposed to Christian comedy, but I did kind of do Christian comedy when I was in college.
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THE TALK of last year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe was a comedy show that concentrated on the flaws and limitations of comedy.
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Episodes are available on Snapchat on Thursdays, on Comedy Central's website on Fridays and on Comedy Central's YouTube channel on Saturdays.
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Vergara's ABC show earned two nominations: outstanding comedy series and best supporting actor in a comedy series for actor Ty Burrell.
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I performed sketch comedy, so instead of a wedding video, we produced a comedy short starring us and our dog, Linus.
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It will be a comedy, but it will be a dark comedy that also touches on a lot of different things.
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Two Comedy Titans Tied for the most nominations was Mean Girls, the musical adaptation of 2004's hit high school comedy.
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LA-based sketch comedy group Mommy Comedy decided to elaborate on this artistic(?) thought experiment and ran into some speed bumps.
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But comedy exists outside of two venues in the West Village, and maybe with time the Comedy Cellar will catch up.
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Trump has been bad for comedy in the sense that there has been a lot of crappy liberal comedy about him.
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Shore's career in comedy spanned 70 years, and his world-famous Comedy Store launched the careers of countless comedians and actors.
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His comedy is also far removed from the goofball, stoner stereotype seen in earlier drug comedy icons like Cheech and Chong.
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In other words, it took until the 69th ceremony to reward a black comedy director and a black woman comedy writer.
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We're in a moment where the most revelatory comedy standup is a performance where a comedian rejects comedy as a remedy.
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The first was 2014's teen comedy, "The Perfect Score," and then again in 2007's romantic comedy, "The Nanny Diaries."
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Amazon Prime Video was the comedy breakout, thanks to 'Fleabag'Netflix's streaming rival Amazon Prime Video cleaned up in the comedy categories.
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First, the guys review Melissa McCarthy's new comedy The Boss, directed by her husband and fellow sketch-comedy veteran Ben Falcone.
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He figured this stuff out and really pioneered it and continues to put out the best comedy songs and comedy music.
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COMEDY It's no accident that this evening is one of the best-known staples of New York's vibrant, bustling comedy scene.
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Once Joke Twitter had warped my brain and increased my comedy awareness, I started seeing a rising tide of comedy everywhere.
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Comedy Pete Holmes, the star of the HBO sitcom "Crashing," hosts this night of stand-up comedy on Wednesday at 8.
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Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson made their cult-favorite comedy Broad City for YouTube before signing a deal with Comedy Central.
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What's different about comedy now and the comedians you're working with, as opposed to when you were hosting Def Comedy Jam?
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" Another member: "Michelle Wolf works for Comedy Central, which has the word 'comedy' in it and therefore must mean she's funny!
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All comedians know that the #1 rule in comedy, the only rule in comedy, is that it has to be funny.
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Bad Lip Reading, launched in 2011, is a comedy YouTube channel that intentionally dubs video clips with audio for comedy effect.
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" Soloway expressed admiration for Sweeney, describing her as "important to the history of comedy and the history of women in comedy.
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Recently Kayla has started doing stand-up comedy, and won an award at a small fringe festival for best comedy act.
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" Likewise -- Al Martin, owner of Broadway Comedy Club and Greenwich Village Comedy Club, says ... "Everyone is entitled to a second chance.
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The answer totally depends on your feelings regarding Donald Trump, comedy, and stupid questions about whether Donald Trump has ruined comedy.
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Widely seen as a response to Netflix's avalanche of stand-up investments, Comedy Central recently announced the Colossal Clusterfest comedy festival.
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"Fleabag" (which originally aired on the BBC but was co-produced and streamed internationally by Amazon) did particularly well, winning the big award for Comedy Series, as well as additional awards for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Phoebe Waller-Bridge, pictured above), Writing for a Comedy Series (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and Directing for a Comedy Series (Harry Bradbeer).
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On Tuesday's episode of Desus & Mero, Ross stopped by to talk about his new comedy special, and Desus asked him about the roast moment that many comedy fans idolize—one that inspired the VICELAND host to persue comedy himself.
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And director Peter Atencio is the perfect fit for a project like this, given his experience directing every episode of Comedy Central's genre-bending sketch show Key and Peele, not to mention the comedy duo's recent action comedy, Keanu.
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Comedy Catastrophe — which recently got renewed for a third and fourth season — received one nomination for outstanding writing for a comedy series.
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But even while taking down stereotypical romantic comedy traits, director Todd Strauss-Schulson's film is still a romantic comedy at its heart.
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Waithe was the first black woman to win for comedy writing, and Glover the first black man to win for comedy directing.
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There's a lot of comedy in motherhood — just ask Ali Wong, who lampooned the experience in her 2016 comedy special Baby Cobra.
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It's sometimes very funny, and it's sometimes very sad, which isn't that unusual for a comedy — even an animated comedy — in 2018.
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The horror-comedy Snatchers, which debuted at this year's SXSW, combines both tropes — then filters them through a high-school-comedy setting.
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"It's not a comedy," the film's star, Matt Damon, deadpanned to reporters after landing a Globe for best actor in a comedy.
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If Shaffir just wanted to practice niche comedy for his fans, he could have joked about Kobe Bryant at a comedy club.
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She's an unmarried professional woman in a romantic comedy who lives her life like an unmarried professional man in a romantic comedy.
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After a hiatus, CK has recently attempted a return to comedy with impromptu performances at the Comedy Cellar in New York City.
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Now Arnold has teamed up with another comedy legend, Cedric the Entertainer, as the co-star of the CBS comedy The Neighborhood.
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Keith: I was reading this article about the connection between comedy and therapy, and there are actual therapeutic results from watching comedy.
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Jeffrey Tambor won the award for actor in a comedy series, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus won for actress in a comedy series.
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After dropping his Comedy Central contract in 20173, the comedian is delivering a new stand-up comedy special on the streaming juggernaut.
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Comedy writer and actor Abbi Jacobson doesn't only play the art-obsessed Abbi Abrams on her Comedy Central TV show Broad City.
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Matt Damon also won best actor in a comedy for his role in the hit film -- which many don't consider a comedy.
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I have a big problem with comedy right now being bad comedy but people love it just because it supports their ideas.
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" N.Y. Times' Peter Baker: "I would vote to leave the comedy acts to comedy shows and stick to journalism at journalism dinners.
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"Master of None," earned two nods, including Best TV Comedy and sees Aziz Ansari competing for Best Actor in a TV Comedy.
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Alternative comedy venues, unlike most comedy clubs, rarely charge admission and are desperate (I repeat, desperate) to have you in their audience.
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I'm known for doing comedy in the U.K. Another thread of "Be Right Back" came from one of our old comedy shows.
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It also includes one of the best comedy sequels in recent memory and a ribald, surprisingly poignant comedy about college baseball players.
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I want to write a comedy that's funny because I feel like comedy movies haven't been that funny for a long time.
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A comedian friend of mine, Tom Simmons, and Avery Dellinger, who works at Morty's Comedy Joint, the comedy club here in Indianapolis.
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"Seinfeld is the television comedy that all television comedy is measured against," Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer, said in a statement.
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Philip Galanes Let's start with comedy in the '70s, when you both began your careers: "All in the Family," the comedy clubs.
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There's this thing that's been peddled in comedy that P.C. culture is some enemy of comedy, which is garbage, by the way.
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Besides those two categories, Glover was nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy, and the show was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series.
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As seen on Comedy Central, "Comedy Jam" features comedians telling a funny story involving music and then belting out a related song with Josh Adam Meyers's band, which he is bringing in from Hollywood for this New York Comedy Festival showcase.
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On Comedy In "The Bird Revelation," the first comedy special to focus on the #MeToo movement, Dave Chappelle, sitting on a stool at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles in November, pauses to give advice to some comedians in the back.
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Related: Adam Green's Psychedelic 'Aladdin' Is a Handmade Labor of Love The Creators of 'Rick and Morty' Told Us the Secret to Comedy A Look Inside Brooklyn's First All-Day Alt-Comedy Fest Meet Tynan DeLong, Comedy Polymath | Not Dead Yet
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Master of None is also nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series, with Ansari up for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, as well.
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Arnett's show, The Comedy Show Show with Will Arnett, will offer a goofy, "fully aroused" inside look into comedy shows around the country.
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And the teen sex comedy Blockers and the action comedy Game Night were modest hits, earning $93 million and $13 million worldwide, respectively.
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Caroline Hirsch—owner of Caroline's, one of the New York comedy clubs that precipitated the change—declared comedy "the rock of the eighties".
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In April, black comedian and activist Franchesca Ramsey signed on with Comedy Central to make a still-unnamed late-night comedy TV pilot.
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In some ways comedy works even better if you're the overly serious guy in a ridiculous comedy; then it can be even funnier.
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So, let's figure out what led Midge to commit comedy career immolation before she even had much of a comedy career to immolate.
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I think the career of comedy as we knew it, comedy as we perform it and seek it and consume it, is changing.
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My crowd wouldn't necessarily be going to a comedy club—maybe they're just not comedy club people, but there are people who are.
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A more recent viewer of C.K.'s comedy Tweeted early this morning that C.K. was at the Comedy Cellar last night as well.
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The Comedy Cellar is somehow both a New York comedy institution and a place with an audience of almost exclusively out-of-towners.
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I called Brandon and he said a comedy club just tweeted that tonight, I apparently had an audition for a prestigious comedy festival.
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My show was a comedy and light hearted til sad times happened then we had to change my show from comedy to drama.
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Since then he's had several televised comedy specials -- mostly on Netflix and Comedy Central -- and he's continued touring, almost nonstop, around the country.
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My show was a comedy and light hearted [until] sad times happened then we had to change my show from comedy to drama.
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" If someone asked me for a great comedy, my first question was invariably, "What's one comedy you've seen that you think is hilarious?
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Warby Parker's brand isn't one that's generally associated with comedy, so Arby's can help lighten the mood and bring comedy to the table.
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So though their voices ring with middle-school comedy, it is the comedy we use to keep our fear of the dark unacknowledged.
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In other words, it's losing what made it funny originally — the comedy that comes from its assumed authoritative objectivity — and gaining meme comedy.
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Writing credible comedy within a comedy can be the downfall of this kind of show, as Showtime's "I'm Dying Up Here" recently proved.
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She is the founder of Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, a dinner comedy event that has run every Christmas in San Francisco since 1993.
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Bad Lip Reading, launched in 2011, is a comedy YouTube channel which intentionally dubs video clips with incorrect lip reading, for comedy effect.
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This new project comes courtesy of Art & Industry, a production company that has made comedy specials for Netflix, Comedy Central, Showtime and Epix.
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Comedy Tom Papa will record an episode of his SiriusXM show before an audience at the Comedy Cellar's new space at 8 p.m.
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But it was great to see him and his ideas about where comedy should go and what comedy is now get worked out.
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Nominations: Best motion picture (musical or comedy), Taron Egerton for best actor in a motion picture (musical or comedy), and best original song.
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October 29th Netflix description: Actor, talk show host, producer, and comedy legend Arsenio Hall makes his Netflix comedy special debut with Smart & Classy.
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Olivia Colman won best actress in a comedy or musical for her work in "The Favourite," a pitch-black comedy about royal schemers.
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And one is considered a comedy now but was meant to be a drama, whereas the other leans into and embraces its comedy.
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Netflix's freshman series The Kominsky Method won Best Comedy or Musical, and star Michael Douglas won Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical.
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A representative example: At the Aspen Comedy Festival a few years ago, he invited a female comedy duo back to his hotel room.
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"I was doing a lot of comedy but I always wanted to do serious drama as well and it's quite hard when you're working in comedy and have a comedy agent to even be invited into the drama room," Whelan told the site.
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I mean, certainly, I did comedy forever, actually with one of the producers of my show, Allana Harkin, we did comedy for years in Toronto, and if YouTube had existed when we were doing our comedy, it would've been a completely different experience.
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In her opening monologue, Waller-Bridge extended the victory lap that started two weeks ago at the Emmy Awards, where she won the trophies for lead actress in a comedy and writing for a comedy series and "Fleabag" was named outstanding comedy series.
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"If it wasn't for Andrew Scott," Waller-Bridge joked while accepting the comedy series Emmy (her third win of the night; she'd already won for lead actress in a comedy and writing for a comedy and is also the creator of "Killing Eve").
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Pete's struggles with the comedy world, the dissolution of his marriage, and his own upbringing ring true, in the way autobiographical comedy often does.
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I've been invited to go back any time to the Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh, which is the best mainstream comedy club in town.
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On Sunday morning Trump stunningly lashed out at "Saturday Night Live" because the comedy show featured comedy at his expense, as it long has.
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We've gathered a range of comedy podcasts, from absurdist musical fictional pods to off-the-rails shows governed by the principles of improv comedy.
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Hip hop show "Atlanta" won best TV comedy series and brought Donald Glover, its creator and star, a Golden Globe for best comedy actor.
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Hulu Insecure is very much a friendship comedy and a comedy about one woman (Issa Rae, as Issa) as she navigates her late twenties.
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Can you characterize what a stressful comedy is, and why Lemon had to be a stressful comedy in order for you to make it?
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" On comedy in Los Angeles versus comedy in New York "Usually, like in L.A., you got to go into a nightclub to try jokes.
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The comedy hot spot is situated in Westlake, northwest of the downtown bar scene and southeast of the region's comedy epicenter, in West Hollywood.
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The comedy series is an altogether different production that Iflix said will bring "humour previously only heard in comedy clubs" to the streaming service.
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Comedy Central recently greenlit the fifth season of Broad City, a comedy about two Jewish-American women trying to make it in New York.
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GOULD I'm a big fan of comedy and especially sketch comedy, so "Key and Peele" and "Amy Schumer" are shows that I just love.
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They knew the fat suit was there, along with the comedy built around statutory rape and gay "jokes," and still enjoyed the black comedy.
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I think that New York comedy, in my limited experience, can be more product-focussed, and that Chicago comedy can be more process-focussed.
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Specifically, improv comedy, which is a totally different landscape than stand up comedy in a lot of ways, but it's still very dude-heavy.
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Exactly, and the fact these people still take her seriously that she&aposs going on a comedy tour is just that, it&aposs comedy.
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I came from writing comedy sketches, and comedy sketches really tend to just be about trying to make people laugh and very little else.
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For us, we're happy with any reaction, because it's a comedy act and everyone has different reactions to the different comedy acts they like.
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The slight but appealing "People of Earth," which begins on Monday, is a contemporary anti-comedy or semi-comedy with a traditional sitcom core.
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In addition to Foxworthy and Hawkins, Crist has "performed comedy alongside many comedy legends including Dave Chappelle, Seth Meyers, Anjelah Johnson," according to Stubhub.
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So for the last 15 years I found great success in comedy and comedy writing, and zero-to-little success in acting or theater.
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Clearly, Last Week Tonight was not "just" a comedy show — something its continued influence on the comedy-news landscape since its debut richly illustrates.
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"The driving force behind the National Comedy Center is that comedy, as an art form, deserves it," said Journey Gunderson, the center's executive director.
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It has won critical acclaim and two Baftas, one for best scripted comedy and another, given to Daisy May for best female comedy performance.
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On Comedy In "Alive From New York" on Netflix, Davidson alternates swagger with anxiety and fragility, a mood that's increasingly common in modern comedy.
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Far more successfully than rivals like "Comic View," his "Def Comedy Jam" translated the atmosphere of the black comedy club for a national audience.
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But this is a comedy — a dark one, but a comedy nonetheless, in which a candlelit dinner table becomes a minefield of dramatic irony.
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Liam Kyle Sullivan: I did sketch comedy at the Acme Comedy Theater in LA, a few commercials, a few episodes of 8 Simple Rules.
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She is currently at work on a study of flat affect, and comedy, including an edited volume with Sianne Ngai, called Comedy, An Issue.
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When I started doing comedy ... I started doing comedy because I love Staying Alive, Eddie Murphy and the artist formerly known as Bill Cosby.
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Mozart in the Jungle is probably Amazon's highest-profile comedy save Transparent, and it pulled in some valuable hardware last month when it won Best Comedy and Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy (for Gael García Bernal's flighty conductor) at the Golden Globes.
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Comedy A staple of the stand-up scene for decades, Mr. Kindler has carved himself a respected niche as a comedy ombudsman; at the Just for Laughs comedy festival, he uses his annual State of the Industry address to critique comedic trends and mainstream comedians.
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On Comedy At a sleepy show last month in the grim basement of the Broadway Comedy Club, a Midtown spot that feels frozen in time from the 1980s comedy boom, Julio Torres looked at his feet, speaking to a small crowd in a near monotone.
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Though not all of the month's spoils measured up, there was still plenty to like, including a wildly enjoyable "horror" comedy, a hardboiled crime drama, and even a sketch comedy series that I — a notorious non-fan of sketch comedy — liked more than I didn't.
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Amy Schumer made an impressive (and surprise) return to comedy Monday night, performing for a packed crowd at The Comedy Cellar in New York City.
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Maisel, the Amazon original series that took home Golden Globes for Best Comedy or Musical and Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical in January.
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And as for those who can't imagine a future in comedy that involves being considerate … well, maybe they should consider leaving comedy in their past.
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See A Comedy Show Free and cheap comedy events are a common weeknight occurrence... Go To A Concert … and the same goes for live music.
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Perhaps the most interesting of them were Comedy Central, who, as a comedy network, is technically in competition with HBO's stand-up specials, and Hulu.
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Key and Peele were the creators of the aptly titled sketch comedy series that ran on Comedy Central for five seasons, from 2012 to 20183.
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Before that, he was a part of the sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy, so he's no stranger to the work he'll be doing on SNL.
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The result is that Netflix has essentially stolen the spotlight away from the more traditional homes for comedy special, such as HBO and Comedy Central.
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This isn't Rogen's only comedy this summer; the Knocked Up actor also has Long Shot, his romantic comedy co-starring Charlize Theron, opening May 3.
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Meanwhile, Douglas is nominated for outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series and outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series.
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Along with her standup comedy, she is a founding member of the comedy podcast The Guilty Feminist and creator of the Made of Human podcast.
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Comedy legend Robert Klein also made the case for more political comedy at Trump's expense while a guest on my SiriusXM radio show this week.
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Fleabag is currently up for a Comedy Emmy, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge grabbed a nom for Lead Actress in a Comedy, but is that enough?
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The sequel to the 22 cult comedy is way too desperate for your approval There's something almost vaudevillian about Ben Stiller's brand of comedy performance.
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As a result, Comedy Dynamics started funding comedy specials in order to maintain ownership rights, instead of simply charging a production fee, like its competitors.
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Lyonne, 40, is up for the Lead Actress in a Comedy category and Writing for a Comedy alongside co-creators Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler.
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Damon won best comedy actor for "The Martian," about an astronaut stranded on Mars, and the film also won the best comedy/musical movie category.
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At first, I thought this comedy of physics was emergent, rather than authored, in part because I don't traditionally associate physics interaction with authored comedy.
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The long-running comedy "Schitt's Creek" finally got some Emmy attention, and was nominated for the first time for best comedy series after five seasons.
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The show was nominated seven times for the Emmy Award for outstanding comedy series , and it won the Golden Globe for best comedy in 2002.
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Described as something of a Pandora for comedy, the app can create personalized "radio" stations of comedy, in addition to offering on-demand listening. Laugh.
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It received the Golden Globe for best comedy series in 2014, and Samberg earned the statue for best actor in a comedy the same year.
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His stand-up is a mix of political insights and observational comedy with a style that mixes alt-comedy pop culture references with powerhouse punchlines.
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They looked upon Gilda as someone who was a gateway, who was a pioneer for women in sketch comedy in particular and comedy in general.
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Even so, Crowe does star with Ryan Gosling in the upcoming '70s detective comedy, The Nice Guys, so it's not like he can't do comedy.
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So does great art, which is why the paradox at the heart of this remarkable show — it's a comedy arguing against comedy — actually elevates it.
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I mean as in the Human Comedy and the Divine Comedy, which in Mr. Kushner's swirling, mixed-up universe are gloriously one and the same.
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Late-night comedy: The comedy hosts were unsurprised by the news that the F.B.I. was worried that President Trump might be secretly working for Russia.
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Lacey Jeka and Kristen Buckels, also known as the comedy duo Between Two Bushes, regularly perform their stand-up and sketch comedy around the city.
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On Comedy Moshe Kasher, Andrew Schulz, Judah Friedlander and other stand-ups are trying to elevate an aspect of live comedy often overlooked on specials.
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Politician is up for Best TV Musical or Comedy and its leading man, Ben Platt, is in the Best TV Musical or Comedy Actor competition.
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Maisel," Amazon BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES -- Ted Danson, "The Good Place," NBC BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES -- Rachel Brosnahan, "The Marvelous Mrs.
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Lyonne was nominated for lead actress in a comedy as well as for writing for a comedy alongside co-creators Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler.
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WM: I mean, there were a lot of places that black comedy just wasn't going because there was not enough black comedy to go there.
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Comedy For years withdrawn from public life, Mr. Chappelle is touring once again, bringing his insightful and often controversial comedy to his legion of fans.
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On Comedy At the start of this year, the improv comedy powerhouse Upright Citizens Brigade Theater made a change in policy that went mostly unnoticed.
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Comedy Ms. Kilmartin is a veteran stand-up, a writer for TBS's "Conan" and the co-author of a best-selling comedy book about motherhood.
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Only three shows — drama The Americans (eligible for season six), comedy The Good Place (eligible for seasons two and three), and comedy The Marvelous Mrs.
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In August and September, C.K. made two unannounced appearances at the Comedy Cellar, one of the biggest and most revered comedy clubs in New York.
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Making people laugh about politics is a time-honored comedy tradition that's been around just about as long as both politics and comedy have existed.
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Fox's comedy development process seems to involve a lot of high-concept ideas, which can be dangerous in comedy, where premises wear thin very quickly.
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Turns out, people should have been more skeptical of Peone, who is a comedy film director and an early employee of the comedy site CollegeHumor.
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It turns out, not only has Stone always been a fan of sketch comedy, she auditioned to be on a sketch-comedy show: Nickelodeon's All That.
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We'd seen a number of comedy websites that had failed, and we really weren't convinced that the internet could be a destination for short-form comedy.
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A comedy about four Black women heading to New Orleans to blow off steam just became the first comedy of 2017 to gross over $100 million.
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"These producers are making these decisions about art and comedy and they don't know anything about art and comedy," he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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One member suggested trying to find a comedy show, so Koolwal set the Events app's search feature to find them a comedy event nearby that night.
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The change even leaves time for some surprise humor, which sometimes lands as peak black comedy, and sometimes flounders as nihilism masquerading as peak black comedy.
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It's not a think piece delivered as a comedy, and it doesn't have much to say about the current state of the late-night comedy world.
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Crazy Rich Asians, the comedy that drew praise for its Asian-centric cast, also earned a nomination for Best Picture in the musical and comedy category.
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Under the general umbrella of comedy — stand up and otherwise — there is certainly a hierarchy and Black/urban comedy is often at the bottom of it.
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This just means that "tasting menu" style comedy — like, say, 16 comedians in one comedy special at your local movie theater — is all the more consumable.
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From Netflix streaming stand-up specials to comedy clubs being grace with the presence of comedy legends, there's a lot to make fun of this year.
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"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was one of the first original comedy series on Netflix, and now it will be its first interactive comedy event," said Fey, 48.
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On Monday night, he made a surprise appearance at New York's celebrated Comedy Cellar, a comedy club where famous comedians like to workshop their new material.
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Jordan Peele — former star of Comedy Central's Key and Peele — is teaming up with Tracy Morgan for a comedy pilot for FX, the network announced Saturday.
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His comedy outfit, Saigon International Comedy, pairs a touring international comedian with a handful of local comics and has about 15 sold-out shows a year.
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A group of students lead by Denis Leary and Eddie Brill started the Emerson Comedy Workshop, still one of the main comedy groups on campus today.
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Booth's production company, Sacred Cow Productions, was behind comedy films for the likes of Hicks, Rogan, and Stanhope—and Booth also produced Hicks' posthumous comedy records.
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To put Me Too and comedy in the same sentence is so deeply offensive and not because I'm uptight and I don't see comedy in things.
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Iglesias, the comedian and actor whose most recent comedy special, "One Show Fits All," debuted on Netflix earlier this year, stars in the lighthearted comedy show.
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Cut down to about an hour, the play still worked, with vivid physical comedy — manga-like expressive postures — to match the sheer ebullience of Molière's comedy.
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You've been a part of the comedy family for a long time, have you been personally affected by any of those tragedies in the comedy community?
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Brash, nasal and opinionated, Mitzi Shore took a middling comedy club on the Sunset Strip and for a time made it the center of American comedy.
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The insatiable American appetite for British drawing-room comedy is well nourished in "The Roundabout," a revival of J. B. Priestley's 1932 comedy at 59E59 Theaters.
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Two other clubs, the Karura Comedy Club and the Standup Collective, were founded a year later; they jointly held the city's first comedy festival in December.
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Two other clubs, the Karura Comedy Club and the Standup Collective, were founded a year later; they jointly held the city's first comedy festival in December.
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Brontë wasn't writing anything like a romantic comedy or a comedy of manners — she was writing a gothic romance that was also an aspirational marriage plot.
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Snubs: Sean Hayes, Debra Messing and Megan Mullally "Will & Grace" is nominated for best comedy, and Eric McCormack is nominated for best actor in a comedy.
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