STAND-UP comedy had its first golden age 40 years ago.
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At the least, I could work towards trying stand-up comedy.
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We also spoke about my goal to try stand-up comedy.
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You've continued to perform stand-up comedy in clubs and theaters.
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This vaudevillian variety show features mentalism, magic and stand-up comedy.
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This was the year stand-up comedy turned on the audience.
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That's what stand-up comedy is all about: a communal moment.
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Yeah, I have a stand-up comedy tour that starts soon.
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His rants were as well-rehearsed as any stand-up comedy routine.
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It's a stand-up comedy show to benefit our local Planned Parenthood.
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Q: Does the world of stand-up comedy teach its own lessons?
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I also ended up doing stand-up comedy that season as well.
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Eddie Murphy is planning his long-awaited return to stand-up comedy.
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She also does stand-up comedy and a killer Rosie Perez imitation.
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President Obama tried his hand at stand-up comedy beside his lectern.
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Mr. Hart's stand-up comedy, filmed at a football stadium in Philadelphia.
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To hone his speaking skills, he watched Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up comedy.
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At the urging of a therapist, Haddish started doing stand-up comedy.
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However, Netflix appears to be continuing its investment in stand-up comedy.
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These specials showcase a comedian who is reinvigorated by stand-up comedy.
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Nothing required more work to get right than the stand-up comedy.
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SPIRIT FLIGHT ATTENDANT ENTERTAINS PASSENGERS WITH STAND-UP COMEDY DURING DELAY Democratic Rep.
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STAND-UP COMEDY I wouldn't mind seeing some stand-up this Valentine's Day.
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Chris Rock's next stand-up comedy special is coming really soon to Netflix.
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Netflix wants to be the go-to destination for stand-up comedy specials.
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Will Smith is crossing another item from his bucket list: stand-up comedy!
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He'd been in Canada over the weekend doing several stand-up comedy gigs.
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There are plenty of women who study improv, sketch, and stand up comedy.
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Jess was a mate at the time, and my stand-up comedy partner.
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And do your listeners know that we're in a stand-up comedy club?
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And we covered the rise of those doing stand-up comedy while pregnant.
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I saw that first-hand performing stand-up comedy across the Middle East.
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Ms. Slate recently released a stand-up comedy special, "Stage Fright," on Netflix.
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But stand-up comedy is also revealing of character in an intimate way.
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At college, Apatow studied screenwriting and tried his hand at stand-up comedy.
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The Staten Island native had been doing stand-up comedy since his teenage years.
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The platform also features stand-up comedy specials such as Cameron Esposito's Marriage Material.
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Once again folks, Twitter's no place to try out your stand-up comedy routines.
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The Staten Island native had been doing stand-up comedy since his teenage years.
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I love traveling, stand-up comedy, and I'll never stop trying to learn French.
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After the war, he did stand-up comedy and wrote jokes for other comedians.
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Like Seinfeld, Gadsby talks a good deal about the nature of stand-up comedy.
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While it can be cathartic, stand-up comedy isn't that much like talk therapy.
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He moved onto Cory's spin-off and has since done some stand-up comedy.
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I just do stand-up comedy on the side to keep a low profile.
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You used to perform stand-up comedy, but then you quit for six years.
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Earlier this year, the Daily Beast deemed Wolf "the future of stand-up comedy."
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In early February, Beckinsale supported Davidson at his stand-up comedy show in Los Angeles.
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The platform also features special stand-up comedy specials such as Cameron Esposito's Marriage Material.
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During his time serving, he did stand-up comedy and magic acts for fellow soldiers.
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He loves love, God, making new buds, street hot dogs, and performing stand-up comedy.
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"Stand up comedy for women is one giant sexual harassment," she told Refinery29 in November.
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A Spirit flight attendant entertained passengers with some stand-up comedy during a delayed flight.
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Gregory's stand-up comedy tackled racism, often with quips that took his audience by surprise.
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Women have the right to claim, and reclaim, a place in stand-up comedy history.
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Submissions may include dance performances, films, academic presentations, stand-up comedy, visual art and more.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: It was the 1990s, and I was doing stand-up comedy.
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The comedian talked about meeting Dorman and her hopes to continue doing stand-up comedy.
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Does it feel weird to be talking about a Platonic ideal of stand-up comedy?
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But he found it difficult to get acting jobs and turned to stand-up comedy.
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And in early February, Beckinsale supported Davidson at his stand-up comedy show in Los Angeles.
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Then, in February, they were photographed holding hands at one of Davidson's stand up comedy shows.
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On the side, she still does some stand-up comedy shows, as well as speaking engagements.
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Ansari left the spotlight until embarking on his international stand-up comedy tour, Road to Nowhere.
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Thanks to Bruce, there are virtually no topics that are off limits in stand-up comedy.
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Mike continues single parenting his autistic daughter Luna and tries his luck with stand-up comedy.
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However, he also took advantage of stand-up comedy and acting to help spread his message.
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In the early 1970s, Gregory left stand-up comedy to spend more time on political activism.
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Pianists like the Norwegian Aksel Kolstad host shows that fuse stand-up comedy with classical concerts.
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Eventually, Orji surrendered to her passion, despite the fact that stand-up comedy still scares her.
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And believe me when I say that very little is more challenging than stand-up comedy.
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There is a fine line between the ramblings of a crazy person and stand-up comedy.
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She is also about to do the most important stand-up comedy act of her career.
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This monthly showcase in the East Village celebrates both stand-up comedy and aerial pole dancing.
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Mike MacDonald, a pioneer of the Canadian stand-up comedy scene, died on Saturday in Ottawa.
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If you want to do the stand-up comedy and embarrass us as a family, fine.
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Just like the media business, stand-up comedy and Hollywood, fashion is having a political moment.
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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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Biden tagging in after South Carolina in the wake of Bloomberg's failed debate/stand-up comedy.
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Pete Holmes, the star of the HBO sitcom "Crashing," hosts this night of stand-up comedy.
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She tried to distract herself by trying new experiences, like stand-up comedy and scuba diving.
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Newly separated and living in her parents' building, a writer gives stand-up comedy a try.
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Stand-up comedy—particularly amateur stand-up—is just an acceptable form of public self-harm.
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Queen Latifah's jumping into stand-up comedy by producing a new competition TV show ... TMZ has learned.
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Really, though, we shouldn't be surprised: Ewumi retired from stand-up comedy aged 19, after two shows.
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Since 2013, it has been hosting hour-long slots of stand-up comedy that it calls "specials".
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But for the most part, he's been the butt of joking memes and stand-up comedy routines.
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Is there a difference between laughter from a studio audience and laughter while doing stand-up comedy?
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The actress then supported Davidson at his stand-up comedy show in Los Angeles in early February.
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This news comes shortly after Grande supported Davidson at his stand-up comedy set on Friday night.
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Ralphie's stand-up comedy career took off after he finished second on "Last Comic Standing" in 2003.
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Earlier in the 2000s, I occasionally caught Ms. Klein's sharply nerdy stand-up comedy in New York.
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You said at CinemaCon in April that you were thinking about ending your stand-up comedy tours.
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It was Roth's genius to realize that the language of stand-up comedy could reinvigorate literary fiction.
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When I was 23, I got a job teaching seventh grade and started doing stand-up comedy.
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I love Reggie Watts - if you haven't seen his live stand-up comedy go check him out.
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"My show is NOT stand up comedy" because that's an art form designed by men for men.
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I tried doing stand-up comedy again, but I ended up talking to myself on the subway.
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And her stage patter has always been its own entertainment, part stand-up comedy, part populist sermonizing.
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At the time of her death, I had been doing stand-up comedy for nearly eight years.
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We see him watching a late-night host make fun of his stand-up comedy on television.
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"Well, actually, I've started doing stand-up comedy," I said, expecting to elicit some awe and admiration.
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Maisel examines the world of 1950s stand-up comedy through the delightful lens of Amy Sherman-Palladino.
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LOS ANGELES — Chris Rock is reportedly scoring a big paycheck for his return to stand-up comedy.
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So much so, that the barriers between politics and stand-up comedy appear to be breaking down.
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He started his career as a musician, playing the stand-up bass, before turning to stand-up comedy.
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But is Mr Kindler's quip—that people are getting bored of stand-up comedy—destined to come true?
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"It sits in this lovely space between theater and a more traditional stand-up comedy venue," she said.
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This year, they got just that: DeGeneres embarked on her first stand-up comedy tour in 15 years.
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On stage, doing stand up comedy, people don't care what you look like or where you come from.
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Visit Houston Play bingo or try your hand at stand up comedy every Thursday at The Secret Group.
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The channel will also offer daily doses of stand-up comedy from comics around the U.S., it says.
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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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The comedian came up in the stand-up comedy world of Los Angeles' Sunset Strip in the 1980s.
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The thing I've always loved about stand-up comedy is that it is unable to show you mercy.
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Part of the promotion is stand-up comedy, live music, and other Icelandic performances at the airport lounge.
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On the latest episode of VICE LIVE, the hosts discuss Stormy Daniels's recently launched stand-up comedy tour.
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To date, it's still one of the most powerful and vulnerable pieces of stand-up comedy we've seen.
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So one weekend, they went on a date and discovered other similarities: They both loved stand-up comedy.
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Lord Buckley is a founding father of stand-up comedy who is often left out of history books.
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She started out in stand-up comedy before landing a spot on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
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The comedian and storyteller Jennifer Rawlings narrated her experiences doing stand-up comedy at military bases in Iraq.
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He tallied 31 TV series, 10 feature films, 30 children's shows, 1153 documentaries and 10 stand-up comedy specials.
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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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He also accompanied her to a stand up comedy showcase in L.A. where his brother Casey Affleck joined them.
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"I have faced so much adversity in my life that it prepared me for stand up comedy," she reflects.
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On Friday, the 45-year-old actress supported Pete Davidson at his stand-up comedy show in Los Angeles.
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These could include edgy stand-up comedy routines, a chart-topping song, or a charged political rant — and more.
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Howie Mandel is pissed about the state of stand-up comedy ... and he's blaming political correctness for its demise.
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I think I could start a stand-up comedy tour with all the "mom&aposs basement" jokes I get.
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There is a blind competitive swimmer and a wheelchair-bound comedian putting a new spin on stand-up comedy.
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There's a piece of conventional wisdom that states that stand-up comedy can be "like therapy" for the performer.
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Noah admitted that maybe she had a point: Trump's speeches might play better on a stand-up comedy stage.
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I usually begin with an idea, and that might come from a television program, photograph, or stand-up comedy.
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My husband, Eric Walsingham, does stand-up comedy and his set is punctuated with punch lines about our marriage.
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For improv shows, stand-up comedy, films and plays, check the listings at the 1926-vintage Chief Theater downtown.
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This multilingual sampler plate of international stand-up comedy features comics from around the world delivering half-hour sets.
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He married his first girlfriend, at 22, less than a year after graduating, and began performing stand-up comedy.
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"I started doing stand-up comedy when I was 16," the Girls Trip star, now 38, says in the video.
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So it might surprise you to learn that the 50-year-old star's biggest fear is performing stand-up comedy.
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We are both trying our hands at stand-up comedy but aren't sure that's the lane we want to pursue.
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Watch a bunch of stand-up comedy shows, and before long the app will suggest new comics who might appeal.
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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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The musical project is timed to the debut of Hart's new stand up comedy tour film also titled "What Now?"
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For the purposes of this list, we've restricted this list to the jokes that appeared in stand-up comedy specials.
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The streaming giant on Wednesday announced Louis C.K. will debut two new stand-up comedy specials exclusively on the platform.
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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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After the show was canceled in 1949, he hit the theater circuit, playing the bagpipes and doing stand-up comedy.
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But now a vibrant new scene is creating late-night laughter across this city of 9 million: stand-up comedy.
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Tu, who began performing in 2017, says having the outlet of stand-up comedy has helped her cope with depression.
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We talked to Nancherla about filming the show and her own experiences with stand-up comedy and growing into adulthood.
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Improv, as depicted in the movie, is not mainstream entertainment like stand-up comedy but more an outlier of theater.
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The second year is filled with my own noise: not just music, but podcasts, stand-up comedy routines and audiobooks.
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It was an hour investigating and questioning what stand-up comedy is and how the power structures underlying it work.
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Concerts, plays, ballets, stand-up comedy shows, even an annual book sale — there was always something on at the Civic.
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He calls stand-up comedy a "calling," which he warns "is too painful and difficult" for anyone to pursue casually.
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Stand-up comedy is also on the bill, from Aparna Nancherla, whose credits are truly too numerous to list here.
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She said she had been spending her time working on a podcast, promoting her book and performing stand-up comedy.
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The announcement also comes as Netflix has all but elbowed HBO out of the big-name stand-up comedy business.
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And we actually, early on, had some great success in stand-up comedy with a comedian named Katt Williams. Sure.
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Her outreach efforts often seemed more like stand-up comedy, and they routinely packed hundreds into 150-person-capacity bars.
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Coming from a successful career in stand-up comedy, Sam's still working on getting used to writing for other people.
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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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B. He's opening a stand-up comedy bar in Brazil, and bought the TV in America to bring it there.
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Stand-up comedy is the comfort food of binge-watching — but don't let that stop you from also ordering comfort food.
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We've got some pretty heavy sh– going on right now, and the best thing I can do is stand-up comedy.
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In the fall of 2016, I was doing stand-up comedy and the Access Hollywood tape had not taken him down.
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Now, several of Hart's old tweets weren't really in the style of stand-up comedy -- they were just straight-up homophobic.
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Some attendees will be surprised, and very excited, to hear that the festival is also bringing back their stand-up comedy.
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Louis CK being "banished" from stand-up comedy wasn't some kind of petty punishment, it was a fucking workplace safety issue.
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According to the website, the idea for Frazzled Cafes came when Wax was on tour for her stand-up comedy shows.
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The network will also be pulling all of his previous programs, including stand-up comedy specials and TV series, per Variety.
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For Pete in particular, this means being more sexually and romantically adventurous, and finally pushing himself to perform stand-up comedy.
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The stand-up comedy show helped the careers of Black comedians like D. L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Jones herself.
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In the fall of 2016, I was doing stand up comedy and the Access Hollywood tape had not taken him down.
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It happened to westerns, to gonzo journalism, to stand up comedy, to rock and roll and it happened hard to disco.
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Among them is Mr. Xu, 30, who lives in Shanghai and ekes out a full-time living from stand-up comedy.
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But they had little in common with one another besides a determination to remake stand-up comedy in their own image.
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There had been stand-up comedy albums before this, but none had made as much of a splash as this one.
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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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Stand-up comedy is also on the bill, from Aparna Nancherla, right, whose credits are truly too numerous to list here.
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Really important comedian, was doing stand up comedy about race at a time that it just seemed really dangerous to do.
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The stand-up comedy production was planned to be a follow up to C.K.'s "2017" Netflix special released in April.
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I'm watching British stand-up comedy — East End guys — and I'm also listening to a lot of music, like Billy Bragg.
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HBO announced on Wednesday that Jon Stewart would do a stand-up comedy special, his first since 1996, for the network.
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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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The expansive, largely unscripted, disquisitions with which Mr Trump entertains his rallies are less traditional "speeches" than a stand-up comedy routine.
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This news came shortly after Grande supported Davidson at his stand-up comedy set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Friday night.
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On Groundhog Day 2012, I did stand-up comedy for the first time at an open mic in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood.
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In November, Schumer was hospitalized for the condition, which also caused her to postpone a few of her stand-up comedy shows.
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Of course, Griffin's no amateur -- he's been doing stand-up comedy for a while and Ross thinks he's a genuinely funny guy.
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" Genzlinger described the performance shown in the film as a "stand-up comedy routine" that at times "sounds like a commencement address.
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Instead he toured the country with concerts and stand-up comedy acts, giving two shows a day—one free, and one paid.
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The men at the center of each episode have straight-leg jeans to try on and stand-up comedy sets to bomb.
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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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At first the audience laughed, because, "hey, it's stand-up comedy," but Richards doubled down and used even more extreme racial epithets.
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" Sofie Hagen, a Danish comic, finds that stand-up comedy, though often brutal, is comforting because "it makes scientific sense to me.
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Ever since Jerry Seinfeld asked what the deeeeal was with airline peanuts, airports have been a clichéd setting in stand-up comedy.
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The system is supposed to simulate the intimacy of a book reading or stand-up comedy show, but here, it's fascinatingly weird.
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Hart, famous now for his stand-up comedy and comedic film roles, has spoken often about his experience auditioning for the series.
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Ellen DeGeneres' life has changed drastically since her stand-up comedy days — and she's always finding new ways to make us laugh.
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She auditions predominantly for humorous roles, and she gave stand-up comedy a fair shake by trying it a couple of times.
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He's also plotting a stand-up comedy tour for 2020 and will star in the highly anticipated sequel to Coming to America.
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And in spite of this, or rather because of this, I push myself into public speaking, into stand-up comedy, into improv.
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In October 2009, at the age of 26, Che first started performing stand-up comedy at open-mics around New York City.
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One of the biggest challenges of making a movie about stand-up comedy is that faking laughter is harder than it looks.
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AltspaceVR, the virtual reality social network that hosts events like stand-up comedy or presidential debate-watching parties, is now part of Microsoft.
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Creators like Ricky Berwick, a comedian and popular personality, also see Crowder's videos as in-line with stand-up comedy and online commentary.
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That's the joke in the clip shared from his new Netflix stand-up comedy special "Aziz Ansari: Right Now," which started streaming Tuesday.
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Barbolak is from Oceanside, California, and captured the nation with #TrailerNastyTuesdays and her stand-up comedy sets about dating advice, travel and more.
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The longtime daytime talk show host, 60, is returning to her stand-up comedy roots, announcing her return to the stage on Thursday.
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"I do stand-up comedy between the pieces — about the composer, when the piece was played, when they wrote it," Mr. Kolstad said.
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Elliott Kalan, a former head writer of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," has published prose but has a stand-up comedy background.
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He attended three high schools because of problems getting along with other students but started doing stand-up comedy when he was 16.
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Wanda Sykes may be best known for her work in TV sitcoms, but her stand-up comedy skills make her an elite performer.
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Few stand-up comedy specials have made me laugh as loud as I did when a friend described a date gone horribly wrong.
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The star said she became depressed so began going to therapy and she was soon encouraged to pursue a career in stand-up comedy.
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I'm working hard, but am still in the early stages of my quest to build a career out of stand-up comedy and writing.
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Yeah, if you got on "SNL," that was one path to fame, and if you were on the stand-up comedy circuit ... Roseanne Barr.
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Rock has still been performing stand-up comedy on the road but none of his shows have been taped or released to the public.
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"ONE reason I can do stand-up comedy is because of all the material I have from being a male nurse," says Adrian Matei.
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I still have the Netflix tab open on some stand-up comedy special and I resume watching it, but I am soon sleepy again.
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AltspaceVR, the virtual reality social network that has hosted everything from stand-up comedy to presidential debate-watching parties, is shutting down next week.
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She screamed and squirmed as she held a snake, posed nude for an art class, attempted stand-up comedy, and jumped from an airplane.
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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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Hernandez told the judges that she originally got into stand-up comedy when she was 10 after her father was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy.
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Because I've performed stand-up comedy in countries in the Middle East where comics are effectively forbidden from mocking the leaders of those nations.
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Gervais, who has also toured the world with his stand-up comedy show, hosted the Globes from 2010 to 2012 and again in 2016.
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Gervais, who has also toured the world with his stand-up comedy show, hosted the Globes from 2010 to 2012 and again in 2016.
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Read more: Subtitles aren't always ideal — they do kind of ruin some stand-up comedy sets, for example — but give them a try sometime.
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Started by English-speaking foreigners, stand-up comedy is increasingly becoming a new tradition among Vietnamese in the bustling city locally known as Saigon.
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And next year will see Murphy, 58, go on a stand-up comedy tour and star in the anticipated sequel to Coming to America.
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"When I used to post my videos online, people didn't understand what stand-up comedy was and the comments were quite harsh," he said.
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The period dramedy is about a housewife who takes up stand-up comedy in the aftermath of a major upheaval in her personal life.
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He eventually retired from the WWF in 1995, starting a second career which included stand-up comedy and appearances in a number of films.
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Comedians have flocked to social media to pay tribute to the comedian, who won the "Time Out Award for Stand-up Comedy" in 1999.
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In response to a request by Saudi authorities, Netflix recently removed an episode of the stand-up comedy show "Patriot Act," featuring Hasan Minhaj.
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Today, we're bringing you a first look at another new show we're excited about—the stand-up comedy series FLOPHOUSE, created by Lance Bangs.
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A stand-up comedy special and a four-part docuseries Chelsea Does served as a kind of test run for what ultimately would become Chelsea.
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Hannah Gadsby broke new ground with her Netflix stand-up comedy special Nanette in 2018, and two years later, she's set to make a return.
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When his stand-up comedy gig begins tanking, SpongeBob stoops to a new low as he makes squirrel jokes to get the audience to laugh.
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When she had appeared on Late Night with David Letterman to do stand-up comedy, she felt safe with a young producer named Daniel Kellison.
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Donald Glover created and stars in Atlanta and has previously dabbled in more comedic roles in shows like Community and has performed stand-up comedy.
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In a video shared with fans, NeNe explained that she was canceling two of her upcoming stand-up comedy shows due to Gregg's recent hospitalization.
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Jon Stewart will be performing his first recorded stand-up comedy special in more than 20 years for HBO, the cable network announced this evening.
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At the Duplex, she mounted "Deleted Scenes from Fun Home," a production that mixed stand-up comedy with reflections of seeing that hit Broadway musical.
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She spent 0003 years as an analyst there before she finally got the courage to quit and pursue one of her passions: stand-up comedy.
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Jennifer Aniston might want to consider making the rounds at stand-up comedy clubs after her performance at Jason Bateman's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.
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The series is about a housewife living in late 1950s New York City who decides to pursue stand-up comedy after her marriage falls apart.
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Worlds collided for doctor-turned-actor Ken Jeong when a woman at his Saturday stand-up comedy show in Phoenix, Arizona, had a health scare.
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Hart, known for his stand-up comedy and roles in films including "Ride Along," said he would not have enough time ahead of the Feb.
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QATAR AIRWAYS CEO APOLOGIZES FOR SAYING AIRLINES NEED TO BE RUN BY MEN "Way to raise passengers' spirit... stand-up comedy on board," he wrote.
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For now, DeGeneres is returning to stand-up comedy in her Netflix special Relatable — her first special since Here and Now on HBO in 2003.
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He should capitalize on this rare moment, hire a great writer who can tell jokes, and deliver the stand-up comedy routine of his life.
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Other events include "Science Wake: Eulogies for Failed Theories" (June 6) and "Academic Stand-Up," (June 3), which will deliver research-inspired stand-up comedy.
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Bearer even tried to land a starring role in a porno film ... but it didn't pan out and he moved on to stand up comedy.
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"As you get a little bit further into it, you realize it's very hard to make a living just doing stand-up comedy," he said.
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He qualifies as a founding father of a genre that fuses performance art, music and stand-up comedy — and until recently didn't have a name.
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So I think the nature of stand-up comedy is different than music and so I think that's why people don't take it as seriously.
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Glover has also dabbled in stand-up comedy and most recently won a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Performance for the Childish Gambino song, "Redbone."
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After spending years on the road performing stand up comedy and starring in Hollywood blockbusters, Dane Cook has settled into a quiet life in Los Angeles.
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For Midge that means an unexpected burgeoning career in the downtown boys club that was, and still traditionally-slash-sadly is, the stand-up comedy scene.
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He's been very clear how much he hates the internet, so we won't be getting any info from there, but he does love stand-up comedy.
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Michelle also told us she's going to appear on "Maury" next week, and she's hoping to use all this publicity to get into stand-up comedy.
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But people don't seem to see stand-up comedy as work, probably because when it's done well, it doesn't look much like much work at all.
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Aside from finally trying stand-up comedy, I made it to the final round of interviews for a new job I'd applied to in San Francisco.
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After I get out of jail for hacking instead of going the reformed whitehat route I'm gonna try stand up comedy, think I got a shot?
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After film, video games, journalism, and porn, live stand up comedy is next on the list of things to enter the virtual reality goggle-wearing future.
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Paula Poundstone shot to stardom in the '90s with her hilarious stand-up comedy specials on HBO and was also showcased on shows like 'Hollywood Squares.
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It's also confusing given Jeong's recent interview with TIME, in which he said that today's stand-up comedy demands more personal material and fewer dick jokes.
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By emphasizing wellness, as opposed to shuffleboard and stand-up comedy, Yo1 brings the region's tourism back to its origins, said John Conway, Sullivan County's historian.
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The comedian Whitney Cummings is used to being on the road, starting back when she regularly visited 80 cities a year to perform stand-up comedy.
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Sunday Routine Ms. Love, who is also a Peloton instructor and entrepreneur, fits in church, cycling and a little stand-up comedy and curry at night.
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That bite will presumably carry over into this new weekly half-hour variety show, which offers a mix of sketch and stand-up comedy, with guests.
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This weekend, you can attend a stand-up comedy show about love (or the lack thereof), and discussions with medical professionals about the science behind heartbreak.
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And there's no doubt that the political climate is further fueling creative expression in poetry slams, open mic storytelling, stand-up comedy, coffeehouse art and more.
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You compare cooking to stand-up comedy, in that if you went to an open mic and saw an amateur comedian, you can't shit on that.
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In March, for her first stand-up comedy set since making racist comments, Barr made a series of controversial jokes — beginning with a dark remark about suicide.
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Martin moved to New York and fell into the improv and stand-up comedy scene, where he could write his own material and control his own story.
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She also served as an inspiration for Melissa Leo's comedy club owner in I'm Dying Up Here, the Showtime series about stand-up comedy in the '24s.
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The trailer is brimming with clues as to what we can expect next for Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) and her budding career in stand-up comedy.
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Internet streaming has led to the rise of TED talks, which attract billions of clicks a year, as well as boosting the audience for stand-up comedy.
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Reflecting on that moment made me think about all the other terrible things that happen in the cesspool of sadness that is the stand-up comedy scene.
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Shepherd says she was doing some cleaning when she came across the old uncashed checks from fans who had purchased CDs at her stand-up comedy gigs.
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He saved all his money from hosting the "Tonight Show" — as much as $30 million a year — and spent only what he made from stand-up comedy.
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Williams -- who first started doing stand-up comedy in the San Fran area in the mid-1970s -- bought the property in 2008 for just over $4 million.
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Spend your long flight in 1950s New York with Miriam "Midge" Maisel (played brilliantly by Globe winner Rachel Brosnahan), who discovers her penchant for stand-up comedy.
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And with stand-up comedy bigger than ever in 2018, they're important: In troubled times, the stand-up comic is equal parts judge, priest, and police officer.
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There is probably a parallel universe out there where a guy like me is a physician and maybe just doing some stand-up comedy on the side.
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It was surely an uncommon sight late on a Monday night outside the Comedy Cellar, one of New York's most popular venues for stand up comedy: protesters.
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In 2012, she and two other performers started Disoriented Comedy, billed as "the first-ever (mostly) female Asian-American stand-up comedy tour," and traveled the country.
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Comedian Dave Chappelle's latest stand-up comedy special, "Sticks and Stones," premiered on Netflix last week — and it immediately faced a firestorm of criticism for its jokes.
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Angel Salazar, who played Chi Chi in "Scarface," was picked up by Arizona cops right after his stand-up comedy gig ... for failing to pay child support.
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This year the Cinder Block Comedy Festival will get started with a night of science projects created by the performers, stand-up comedy and a dance party.cinderblockcomedyfestival.
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During college — he attended several universities — he started dabbling in sportscasting and also did stand-up comedy; he eventually found himself on the radio in New York.
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We didn't return to the topic of my stand-up comedy for the rest of our time together, and I couldn't shake how I felt for days.
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He went straight from his mama's knee into an early marriage with Jess, who has been supporting him while he tries to break into stand-up comedy.
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I love Ali Wong's sense of humor, and her past stand-up comedy special during her pregnancy has been greatly appreciated by me as a fellow mom.
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"I'll certainly address it if the situation applies, but I certainly don't make it the focus of my stand-up comedy," he said in a 2015 interview.
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I'd been obsessed with stand-up comedy my entire life, but the crippling combination of anxiety, chronic depression, and unpredictable bipolar swings had kept me from performing.
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You can find the edgy Weirdo brand of humor online, in memes and social media accounts, in certain strands of stand-up comedy and shock jock radio.
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There seems to be a war brewing between all of these companies over stand-up comedy dominance, which means it's a great moment for fans of comedy.
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The site seems to be aggressively closing in on the stand-up comedy market, too, doubling its number of specials in each of the last two years.
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Netflix said that in 2016 it planned to release 31 new and returning original series, 24 films and documentaries, 30 original children series and stand-up comedy specials.
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Mausner has decided to turn down a paid, nationally broadcasted television taping of her stand-up comedy at the annual 2018 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, Quebec.
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Three days after Kate's death, David returned to the stage when he performed his first stand-up comedy set at the Brea Improv Comedy Club in Brea, California.
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Brooke Martenis, a 51-year-old Democrat from Burlington, stuck to her plans to sit and laugh at what she dubbed a "stand-up comedy show" -- Trump's speech.
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In the lawsuit, Mo'Nique accuses Netflix of giving her a "biased, discriminatory" offer of a "talent fee" of $500,000 for a stand-up comedy special around November 2017.
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On comedy In her most recent show, "Cara Josephine," the frenetic British comic Josie Long interrupted one of her many bursts of enthusiasm to criticize stand-up comedy.
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They posted a photo of the bag online, style blogs picked it up — and soon retailers such as Totokaelo, Stand Up Comedy and Creatures of Comfort came calling.
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A Parkland father is using his "stand-up comedy" to call out comedian Louis C.K. over jokes about the Florida shooting that killed his son and 16 others.
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I don't think I'd be able to do stand-up comedy without having gone that low to want to show people that laughing is the cure for everything.
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Kevin Hart's not going to make the call on whether Bill Cosby should do stand-up comedy in prison or not ... and he's happy keeping it that way.
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As Wael, a former street child who steals wallets and hearts, Kheiron prowls through "Bad Seeds" with a sprightly restlessness that seems rooted in his stand-up comedy.
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"I had four days straight of panic attacks," she said, adding that she had found peace by performing a stand-up comedy set for 15 minutes each night.
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The Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles, which opened in 2014, offers a wide range of activities, including stand-up comedy sessions, D.J. residencies and a flower dyeing workshop.
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Comedian, actress, writer, producer Amanda Seales performs stand-up comedy across the globe and delivers comedic lectures on college campuses about sexism, diversity, relationships and black popular culture.
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Right: Dick Gregory performing at the Hungry I nightclub, which played a big role in the history of stand-up comedy, in North Beach, San Francisco, in 1961.
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Prior to his work on the "Ocean's" franchise, the actor was well-known for his stand-up comedy and role on his TV series "The Bernie Mac Show."
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Shane Gillis was not fired because of a stand-up bit that was taken out of context -- that would be a real shame for stand-up comedy everywhere.
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Nudists have also visited a museum , taken a yoga class, opened a restaurant and held a stand-up comedy night in recent months in and around the French capital.
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Once known as HDNet (from back when HD cable programming was relatively rare), AXS TV airs a variety of programs, including sports, stand-up comedy, and the occasional movie.
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Some may argue that the work has lost some of its edge now that such candid discussion can be found in stand-up comedy and mainstream television drama alike.
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The 39-year-old actress and comedian is opening up about her "bad day at work" while at a stand-up comedy routine in Miami for New Year's Eve.
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In Judd Apatow's Funny People, a fictional satire of stand up comedy, Adam Sandler's fantastically rich yet hopelessly unfulfilled comic George Simmons is afflicted with the same character detail.
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Roseanne Barr was back onstage over the weekend for her first stand-up comedy set since making racist comments that led ABC to cancel her Roseanne reboot last May.
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Like others before him in the worlds of boxing, stand-up comedy, and professional wrestling, he's found a lucrative niche market in exploiting racial tensions for their entertainment value.
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This machine doesn't run on dreams, and I was in New Orleans for a stand-up comedy gig that would pay a substantial chunk of my rent this month.
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Tomorrow at 11PM ET, Watts — who currently leads the band on James Corden's The Late Late Show — will be performing as part of AltspaceVR's running stand-up comedy program.
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They celebrate "My First Comedy Album," Mr. Kelly's new CD of "stand-up comedy that you could listen to with your 3953-year-old in the car," he said.
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They celebrate "My First Comedy Album," Mr. Kelly's new CD of "stand-up comedy that you could listen to with your 8-year-old in the car," he said.
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Fittingly, Gervais has been doing a lot of talking lately too: He's currently smack dab in the middle of his first stand-up comedy tour in eight years, Humanity.
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Kevin Meaney, a headliner on the stand-up comedy circuit for more than 30 years, was found dead on Friday at his home in Forestburgh, N.Y. He was 60.
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While stand-up comedy remained largely the province of men throughout the 1950s and '60s, a few women had begun to appear on club stages and late show couches.
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Look for livestreams of lo-fi music, long-running nature sound videos, tutorials on getting fit and learning languages, classic sports games of the past, stand-up comedy sets.
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Ms. Haddish and Mr. Hart, known for their stand-up comedy, blockbuster movies and best-selling memoirs, will discuss their upcoming film, "Night School," directed by Malcolm D. Lee.
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"What a Joke" is a nationwide comedy festival that will have stand-up comedy performances in five D.C. locations and in cities nationwide — and across the pond in England.
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Adam also talked about Eddie Murphy's comeback to stand-up comedy ... saying he's confident it's only a matter of time until Eddie makes his triumphant return to stand-up.
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Stand-up comedy doesn't need to please everyone, and it's as absurd to expect it to as it is to think Wes Anderson's movies will be to everyone's taste.
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The Rogens founded Hilarity for Charity back in 2012 and have hosted several variety shows and stand-up comedy performances over the years to raise money for the cause.
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Large parts of popular culture — and pretty much all of stand-up comedy — consist of reducing people to one or another identity and then making jokes about that generalization.
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After doing stand-up comedy for years, he spent more than two decades hosting NBC's "The Tonight Show," which reportedly earned him as much as $30 million a year.
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Nice, an 18-year veteran of stand-up comedy and the night's organizer, said he decided to resort to humor to try to portray the urgent need for action.
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Through his stand-up comedy, acting roles (in "Louie" and "The Wrestler") and writing ("Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg"), Todd Barry has developed a reputation for wry humor.
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By early December, Jenner was cozying up in Griffin's jacket after she supported the Los Angeles Clippers power forward's stand-up comedy show for his Team Griffin Foundation in Hollywood.
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The network gave a series order Tuesday to Jim Carrey-produced I'm Dying Up Here, a one-hour comedy about the city's infamous stand-up comedy scene of the 1970s.
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I now campaign for the decriminalization of drugs, and my new stand-up comedy show is all about legalization and will be debuting at a local music festival this summer.
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Conan O'Brien, whose "Conan" is broadcast on TBS, will put together five stand-up comedy specials featuring up-and-coming comics for HBO Max, the company announced at the event.
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But now, we finally some news worth celebrating: Stewart will return to HBO to host a stand-up comedy special for the first time in over 20 years, Variety reports.
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Eddie Murphy is itching to get back onstage to perform stand-up comedy -- and our sources say Netflix wants to give him the perfect landing pad -- with a massive payday.
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Based on his stand-up comedy, the series followed Tim Taylor (Allen) and his family — plus their neighbor Wilson (Earl Hindman), the go-to guy for solving the Taylors' problems.
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"Wanted: Live in Concert," Richard Pryor (1978) Richard Pryor is remembered most for his stand-up comedy, but he also had more than 40 acting credits to his name. 14.
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Flesh-n-Bone says Bill Cosby better sharpen up his checkers game, and his stand-up comedy ... if he wants to make it through the next 3 to 10 years.
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Kendall Jenner cozied up in boyfriend Blake Griffin's jacket after supporting the Los Angeles Clippers power forward's stand-up comedy show for his Team Griffin Foundation in Hollywood Thursday night.
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Jerry Seinfeld has been doing stand-up comedy since the mid-1970s, and through the ups and downs of showbiz, he's learned some valuable lessons on careers, failure — and bees.
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"I've always found it really interesting to look at stand up comedy on paper, it gives a certain insight into how the pacing works sometimes," Hernandez told me over email.
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Louis C.K. has every right to return to stand-up comedy, with one major caveat ... something that was missing from his surprise set in NYC ... according to a fellow comedian.
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"If you think I'm inspirational because I go and do sit-down stand-up comedy uncovered and uncensored in the middle of the Arab world, I'll take it," she said.
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Pick up any guide to stand-up comedy (I personally recommend Franklyn Ajaye's Comic Insights) and you'll be taught that lucky, happy, attractive, wealthy, confident people are very rarely funny.
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Storytelling shows—if you're unfamiliar—are a lot like stand up comedy shows except if someone tells a joke and if falls flat they just pretend they were being interesting.
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Before Korman's death in 2008 he and Conway toured with an act that featured stand-up comedy, recreations of their better-known skits and question-and-answer sessions with the audience.
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From stand-up comedy to a standing ovation, Amy Schumer is gearing up to make her debut on Broadway in legendary comedian and banjo player Steve Martin's new play, Meteor Shower.
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"Netflix Is A Joke Radio on SiriusXM will be an audio extension of our award winning stand-up comedy on Netflix," said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos in a statement.
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"Netflix Is A Joke Radio on SiriusXM will be an audio extension of our award-winning stand-up comedy on Netflix," said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, in a statement.
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On Friday, three days after the beloved designer died of an apparent suicide, the 53-year-old actor and comedian performed his first stand-up comedy set since hearing the news.
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Years before she landed her dream job as a co-host on The View, Behar was an unemployed, single mom when she decided to pursue stand-up comedy at age 40.
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The actress plays Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a New York City housewife, who launches her career in stand-up comedy after discovering her husband cheated on her, on the hit Amazon show.
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"There's no stand-up comedy tradition here," says Uy Le, a 26-year-old marketing professional who was the first Vietnamese comic to win the Vietnam Amateur Comedy Competition in 2018.
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On Monday night, comedian Chris Rock announced via Facebook Live that he would be setting off on a new stand-up comedy world tour in 2017—his first in nine years.
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Mr. Birbiglia made his name with the 2012 comedy "Sleepwalk With Me," an adaptation of his one-man stage show about the rigors of touring on the stand-up comedy circuit.
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Murphy, who started performing stand-up comedy at the age of 15, told W Magazine he met Dangerfield at a comedy club in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in when Murphy was 20203.
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Ho Chi Minh City: Stand-up comedy is sweeping Vietnam's largest city, often called Saigon, with local comics and international ones alike braving open mic nights and creating a new tradition.
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Saturday brings the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first mission to send astronauts to the lunar surface, and festivals, exhibitions, screenings and even stand-up comedy will commemorate the landing.
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Aziz Ansari has spent much of his recent stand-up comedy tour only peripherally referencing the accusation of sexual misconduct early last year that took him out of the public eye.
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McInnes claimed on the Proud Boys' website that protesters were encouraging violence during his "stand-up comedy routine" with flyers and that they threw a bottle filled with urine at his car.
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Most recently, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star was spotted wearing the 28-year-old L.A. Clippers power forward player's jacket over her shoulders after attending his stand-up comedy show.
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When Ellen DeGeneres first decided to dive back into stand-up comedy, her wife Portia de Rossi didn't think it was such a good idea — and she's so glad she was wrong!
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On the latest season of Netflix's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," which debuted Friday, Murphy told host Jerry Seinfeld that he's "going to do it again" in regards to stand-up comedy.
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Dr. Scott, who does stand-up comedy when not engaged in her academic pursuits, said we begin to learn to fake laugh and judge the authenticity of others' laughter in early childhood.
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Before this stylish sprout was famous for his stand-up comedy, he was just another happy human in a hat growing up in St. Louis, MO. Can you guess who he is?
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Shelley Berman, whose brittle persona and anxiety-ridden observations helped redefine stand-up comedy in the late 1950s and early '60s, died early Friday morning at his home in Bell Canyon, Calif.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then watch what happens when illustrators draw their own responses to live stand-up comedy, and see how the comedians react in real time.
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Glenn Ligon, for his part, praised the Pop master's use of color, saying it helped him illuminate the hard realities of race in paintings based on Richard Pryor's scabrous stand-up comedy.
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Nick Cannon pissed off some NBC execs with a joke he made during a stand-up comedy special -- and it nearly cost him his job on "America's Got Talent" ... TMZ has learned.
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A search for Spadino's name on the internet also brings up a number of strange stand-up comedy routines and a fake game show that he hosts, where the winner gets a baby.
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Mo'Nique, legendary comedian and Academy Award winner, is calling out Netflix for allegedly offering her $500,000 for a stand-up comedy special while offering millions to Amy Schumer, Dave Chappelle, and Chris Rock.
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An East Tennessee native, the body broker recently was runner-up in a stand-up comedy contest called The Funniest Person in the Tri-Cities, the region surrounding Kingsport, Johnson City and Bristol.
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"I was so intense as a doctor, and I was always stressed out, patients were surprised I did stand-up comedy on the side," told critics at ABC's summer press tour in 2015.
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In an emotional Instagram post on Friday, the 39-year-old actress shared a throwback photo of herself performing at a stand-up comedy gig wearing a blue headband and matching tank top.
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Last stop is Northwest Cannabis Club, where Abdullah checks into his first cannabis club for some deliciously infused hors d'oeuvres before stand-up comedy night... where a very special guest takes the stage.
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As a fan of stand up comedy, and a comedian himself, Hernandez has collected a large number of comedy special transcripts, from comedians like Dave Chappelle, John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman, and Chris Rock.
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To win Drag Race, contestants need to know how to style wigs, apply makeup, sew, design outfits, lip sync, do celebrity impersonations, perform stand up comedy, follow choreography, and, on occasion, actually sing.
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The trends in stand-up specials have continued apace this year, including extremely pregnant comics baring (and bearing) it all, and popular sets that may or may not qualify as stand-up comedy.
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On Capitol Hill, Schiff is known as a slightly goofy nerd who recites endless lines from the movie "The Big Lebowski" and gamely tries his hand once a year at stand-up comedy.
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Last year, "The Hysterics," the stand-up comedy group I performed with throughout my time in college, began planning a benefit show to raise money for the last private abortion clinic in Connecticut.
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Murphy's stand-up specials were also extremely popular, with "Raw" raking in more than $50 million at the box office in 1987, making it the highest-grossing stand-up comedy concert film ever.
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The decision followed an outpouring of social-media criticism of Hart's selection as host that highlighted previous anti-gay comments that Hard had made on Twitter and in his stand-up comedy act.
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A stand-up comedy show isn't the likeliest place to find a second grader, but Daphne Watson was not about to let her daughter Cece miss the opportunity to meet her idol, Kevin Hart.
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During the sailing, singles and couples alike can engage in a variety of entertainment opportunities, from the expected — stand-up comedy performances and dance nights at the onboard Starquest nightclub — to the downright salacious.
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The greatness of Roth was that he was a man of parts, a student of Flaubert and Thomas Mann who could also mime stand-up comedy, a high modernist and a low-brow quipster.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ellen DeGeneres is going back to her roots, launching her first stand-up comedy tour in 15 years in a limited run of shows on the U.S. West Coast in August.
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Those who have likely remember when Knight was one of 10 comics chosen by Variety magazine to perform at "Just For Laughs," the largest and most prestigious stand-up comedy festival in the world.
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In a country of less than 350,3003 citizens that now sees over a million tourists per year, stand-up comedy, or "Uppistand," is emerging as a subculture of live entertainment in Reykjavik, its capital.
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He attended military school, began his show business career as a teenage singer and served in the Navy before trying stand-up comedy at the hungry i in San Francisco in the mid-1950s.
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According to Wu, more than 6503 million citizens—roughly half of the country's internet users—watch some form of livestream, whether it's someone singing, cooking and eating lunch, or doing impromptu stand up comedy.
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The pick-up continues a long line of similar acquisitions by Netflix, which has targeted documentaries — alongside stand-up comedy specials and other more niche formats — in a bid to stand out among streaming services.
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After winning $50 at his first-ever try at stand up comedy in 1985, Harvey quit his insurance salesman job – a decision that did not go over well with his wife at the time, Marcia.
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Netflix's original programming team has demonstrated real dominance in nostalgic 1980s throwback science fiction, stand-up comedy specials, feature films that other studios don't want to release, and just about every genre you can imagine.
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Along with his stand-up comedy specials, Williams has starred in comedic films like Friday After Next with former rapper turned actor Ice Cube, as well as First Sunday, alongside Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan.
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Netflix has established itself as the premier home for stand-up comedy over the past few years, and it has accomplished this by shelling out millions to some of the top names in the industry.
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GE, an industrial giant, has run a television ad campaign about how it hires software developers that feels as awkward to watch as an engineer trying to do stand-up comedy for the first time.
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When Chris Foley, 42, left his career in finance to begin one in stand-up comedy and acting, he assumed his health insurance would look like the coverage he'd received while working for big banks.
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Bill Scheft does a lot of things, but if you were a denizen of the New York City stand-up comedy clubs in the 21991s as I was, you might have seen him on stage.
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Crisp images of the front row of the theater, juxtaposed with smoky backdrops and ghostly lighting, make the audience appear on the same level as the performer, creating unusually striking images for stand-up comedy.
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As a woman in stand-up comedy, I often spend more time addressing what it's like to be a woman or defending why disturbing behavior is upsetting than just getting a seat at the table.
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In the past he would spend several weeks in one city cultivating his fan base; now the stops are shorter with more cities on the itinerary, a cross between theater and stand-up comedy gigs.
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"Stand-up comedy is a shabby business, made up of shabby fellows like me who cross the country, stay at shabby hotels, and tell jokes they no longer find funny," he writes in the introduction.
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"She started telling me about this cousin character who thinks he's cool and a ladies' man but is pretty much a doofus," said Mr. Hochman, who performed stand-up comedy during his time in Denver.
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But in the wake of sexual misconduct claims against Bill Cosby and now Louis C.K., the fact that stand-up comedy has also been a haven for misogyny that enables predatory behavior must be talked about.
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I caught a stand-up comedy set, watched couples play a newlywed game, and enjoyed a silent disco (where partiers where headphones playing the music genre of their choice) at the adults-only nightclub, called Evolution.
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Esposito also puts her money where her mouth is – there's a reason this isn't in Netflix's growing library of stand up comedy, and that's because it's only available on Esposito's website, where optional donations benefit RAINN.
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The company says BET Play will offer over-the-top access to BET's award shows, like the 2016 BET Awards, plus current and classic TV series, documentaries, stand-up comedy specials, entertainment news and musical performances.
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Still, in 2009, Glover left "30 Rock" to spend more time developing his own stand-up comedy while also trying to distribute an independent movie, called "Mystery Team, " which he made with his Derrick Comedy group.
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Directed by Jackson Gay at the McGinn/Cazale Theater, it's billed as a play — Ms. Lampanelli's first — but it's more of a play manqué: a patchwork of stand-up comedy and monologues only loosely sewn together.
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And late in the evening, he delivered new material about make-out burps, temptress nannies and Linux-based operating systems at the stand-up comedy workshop he hosts in the back of a Hollywood comics store.
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So, while reading Susan Jeffers's "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway," she sky-dived, posed naked for a life-art class and tried stand-up comedy, arguably more terrifying than jumping out of a plane.
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While studying at Columbia University, Mr. Fageeh simultaneously trained in improvisational comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and started a web series called "Hisham's Weeklies," which propelled him onto the Arabic stand-up comedy scene.
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And even if C.K. saw his TV opportunities dry up, he was able to return to the stand-up comedy circuit, where he recently said he'd rather be in Auschwitz than present-day New York City.
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Having done stand-up comedy since 2014 in Edinburgh, Kalaitzi plays on the animated and expressive qualities of BSL, breaking down common misconceptions about the language and the Deaf community in general, with collaboration from an interpreter.
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I was living in Los Angeles using my B.A. in English as a shower curtain, performing stand-up comedy, and working as a waiter at the Sunset Tower Hotel where Laura frequently stayed as a VIP guest.
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Joel is soon revealed to be a weak, joke-stealing asshole, and he leaves Midge — on Yom Kippur, no less — which leads to her epiphany that she is the funny one who should do stand-up comedy.
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Haddish's outrageously funny performance in the hit summer comedy Girls Trip — and her equally delightful promotional press tour — rocketed her from a rising presence in stand-up comedy to one of the biggest stars of the year.
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Jonathan Van Ness, the grooming and hair expert on the Netflix reality show, is taking his charisma and comedic talent on the road as he embarks on a stand-up comedy tour in a partnership with Hotels.com.
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Episode 6 is primarily a monologue, as BoJack delivers the eulogy at his mother's funeral as a mix of a stand-up comedy routine and deeply moving reflection on the hold abusive parents have on their children.
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Kumail Nanjiani opened his first hosting gig on Saturday Night Live with a searing stand-up comedy monologue that, in large part, took aim at the many different flavors of racist in the U.S. and the world.
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Valdez says that facing OCD can be particularly challenging for people in the performing arts, such as stand-up comedy, because with the disorder often comes anxiety, panic attacks, or a sense of social awkwardness and ineptitude.
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You might also know the Brooklyn-based Jean Grae as an artist who's followed her creative impulses into the stand-up comedy world, cut a self-produced sitcom, and become the host of a live talk show.
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With Ms. Lampanelli at the center of a four-woman ensemble that also includes the excellent Ann Harada, it's really a play manqué: a patchwork of stand-up comedy and monologues only loosely sewn together (800000:200).
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With Ms. Lampanelli at the center of a four-woman ensemble that also includes the excellent Ann Harada, it's really a play manqué: a patchwork of stand-up comedy and monologues only loosely sewn together (2222:251).
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When he hosted the "Tonight Show," he saved all of his "Tonight Show" money — reportedly as much as $30 million per year, according to CNBC — and spent only the money he made from stand-up-comedy touring.
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With Ms. Lampanelli at the center of a four-woman ensemble that also includes the excellent Ann Harada, it's really a play manqué: a patchwork of stand-up comedy and monologues only loosely sewn together (1:10).
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With Ms. Lampanelli at the center of a four-woman ensemble that also includes the excellent Ann Harada, it's really a play manqué: a patchwork of stand-up comedy and monologues only loosely sewn together (22:200).
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Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan at full sparkle) and her efforts to break into stand-up comedy in the late 1950s are still central, but the show's world has opened up, along with new opportunities for ensemble players.
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Since then, the basement has been home to Off Off Broadway shows (Eve Ensler read "The Vagina Monologues" there for the first time in the mid-1990s), stand-up comedy, burlesque and a dizzying range of music.
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I'd gathered a small army on the social network that supported me through my first published piece, my first stand-up comedy set, my decision to leave my job and write full time … they're indispensable to me.
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Which again, I wasn't prepared for what I saw, which is this ... You think of stand-up comedy, you think of a guy holding a microphone acting as if he's thinking of jokes for the first time.
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But culturally, they are drawn to the plebeian forms that Trump so expertly deploys: the insult humor of stand-up comedy, the over-the-top stereotypes and cartoonish conflicts of pro wrestling, and the Darwinian ethos of boxing.
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Over the last decade, since it transitioned from a mail company to a content provider, Netflix has already snatched one of HBO's crowns—its dominance in stand-up comedy—and threatened its supremacy in post-theatrical release movies.
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AltspaceVR has spent the last year building a community that will casually show up online to play virtual Dungeons & Dragons, attend virtual stand-up comedy shows, or sit around a virtual big-screen TV watching e-sports together.
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She also toured with the stand-up comedy show Arabs Gone Wild, landed a part in Adam Sandler's "You Don't Mess with the Zohan," and became a political commentator on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," which proved a revelation.
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As Mr. Abdul Kareem tells it, he moved to New York City, where he dabbled in music, theater and stand-up comedy before converting to Islam, attracted to its conception of God and its emphasis on clean living.
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They listened to stand-up comedy and country music ("Dolly Parton is queen in our family," Aolani said) while Gbus sped dangerously fast down the nearly empty highways, smoking Newports out the window and chatting with whoever was awake.
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In highlight reels of Mr. Chappelle's comedy, there was often at least a decade-long gap between jokes or scenes, highlighting his older, more challenging, more thrilling skit-based humor against his more recent and uneventful stand-up comedy.
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That's how I ended up with stand-up comedy: you are the one who decides what you're going to do, what you're going to talk about, how you're going to look, and how you're going to act on stage.
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Weeks after the British actress stepped out with Pete Davidson — first, at a Golden Globes afterparty and later, at his stand up comedy show — Beckinsale, 45, slammed another Instagram user who criticized her for her rumored romance with Davidson.
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SPIRIT FLIGHT ATTENDANT ENTERTAINS PASSENGERS WITH STAND-UP COMEDY DURING DELAY When Warren and his family were visiting Florida recently, they decided it was the perfect opportunity to meet the original Gerber Baby, who lives in Tampa, TODAY reports.
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Kids are individuals, with their own taste, but the greatest stand-up comedy taps into some of the same things that the most popular children's books do: delight in language, the purely silly and a grand sense of mischief.
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On this episode of Daily VICE, we head to Los Angeles to talk with some of the stars of our new stand-up comedy show, FLOPHOUSE, and get an exclusive look at the new VICELAND series from Lance Bangs.
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Though Bill is a classic sourpuss, Wohl has him enroll in a stand-up comedy class at the recreation center — largely, it seems, to let him tell a great old joke about St. Peter welcoming four nuns to heaven.
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After multiple women came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against him in 2017, Louis C.K.'s career hiatus lasted only around 10 months before he returned to stand-up comedy and performed dozens of sold-out, controversial shows.
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Someone from a failed new-wave pop band starts a nondescript office job, turns the experience into one of the biggest TV smashes ever, and now has one of the most lucrative careers in the history of stand-up comedy?
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"I found out that she wrote in her journal about the relationship with me and her, how I acted as a piece of motivation in stand-up comedy because I simply uplifted her every time we saw her," Hart explained.
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Van Ness, who kicks off his stand-up comedy tour Road to Beijing on February 28th, teamed up with AllModern designer Maggie Lydecker Kanter to create a "chic, cozy cottage" vibe with a 'rustic Miss-Honey's-cottage-from-Matilda aesthetic.
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Given how well Netflix does with stand-up comedy specials — at least according to the company's own hidden metrics — it seems like a no-brainer for the company to start building up a catalog of one-of-a-kind musical experiences.
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Schumer returned to stand-up comedy for the first time since giving birth earlier this month, though she was later criticized by fans who believed it "too soon" for her to be heading back to work after welcoming her son.
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Rogowsky has also been using HQ's brand to further his stand-up comedy career, splashing its logo on advertising for his shows like this one below at a casino where "The centerpiece is a live trivia competition," he told WPTV2018.
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Before there was Ariana Grande and before there was Cazzie David, Pete Davidson (whose love life we all suddenly care about) was dating bonafide funny human Carly Aquilino, famous for her stand-up comedy and regular appearances on MTV's Girl Code.
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It shouldn't surprise anyone that Schumer knows exactly who she is: the actress radiates confidence in both her stand-up comedy and in her fearless sketches on Inside Amy Schumer, many of which take jabs at sexism and her own haters.
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The acts oscillate between stand-up comedy, some sexy jazz singing, mythical storytelling, and a performative "interrogation," and although each performer's world is decidedly unique in tone and medium, there is an underlying sense of humor that unites the group.
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The stand-up comedy routine — tame and sometimes lame stuff; Mr. Moore is no George Carlin — gives way to a stretch that sounds like a commencement address before Mr. Moore gets to his real purpose, which is to support Mrs. Clinton.
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In Asia, where a youthful stand-up comedy scene is still developing, comedians in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia are finding creative ways to tell jokes about sex and politics, while coming up against cultures of censorship and taboos.
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Moth stories can be seen as part of the oral tradition dating back to Homer, but the personal nature of the tales — and their air of spontaneity — owe as much to stand-up comedy, blogging, talk-show anecdotes and group therapy.
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Taking place from June 2 to June 4 in San Francisco, this live event will give the stand-up comedy genre the Coachella treatment, and feature a wide array of headliners such as Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr, and Hannibal Burress.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads EAST LANSING, MI — Magic, much like stand-up comedy, is considered by neophytes to be a spontaneous or improvisational form, but true practitioners know it to be, like most other performance, based on a formal structure.
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" MKM Partners analyst Rob Sanderson pointed out in a note Netflix's original content slate during the fourth quarter was relatively weak, including shows like "A Series of Unfortunate Events," stand-up comedy specials from Dave Chappelle, and the critically-panned "Iron Fist.
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On his Facebook show Will Smith's Bucket List, he's bungee jumped out of a helicopter over the Grand Canyon, gone scuba diving with sharks, and now, for Wednesday's episode, we've apparently gotten to his lifelong fear of absolutely bombing at stand-up comedy.
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" In "The History of Comedy," a 2017 CNN documentary series, comics spoke about how the highs associated with stand-up comedy are intertwined with darkness and lows, with Patton Oswalt saying comics tend to be "very sensitive to humiliation" and "a little damaged.
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But she has also branched out, making the Kennedy Center a destination for stand-up comedy and expanding its hip-hop offerings under the aegis of Q-Tip, of A Tribe Called Quest, the center's first artistic director of hip-hop culture.
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I learned so much about the world from stand-up comedy, because even though I grew up in Queens, New York, and it was a multicultural, multiracial, global place, and I was a fairly well-educated [kid], I was sheltered in it.
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During this time, O'Brien focused on other activities, like his first stand-up comedy tour since 2010 and a podcast, "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend," that were meant to spark his creativity and help him see his talk show from a different perspective.
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For his videos in the show "On Non-Visibility," at Greene Naftali, Tony Cokes samples statements from political speeches, Twitter feeds and stand-up comedy routines, and displays them in stark white lettering against bright monochrome backgrounds, accompanied by post-punk pop music.
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After a stagnant (and arguably rough) start in the stand-up comedy world in season 1 and 2, the third season has Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) opening for Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain) on a crazy tour and performing in front of hundreds of people.
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The situation was made worse by Che's tone-deaf reaction to Louis C.K.'s return to stand-up comedy last month, when he suggested that C.K. had suffered long enough and should be allowed to return to his profession and earn money.
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It's a bold move that plays up the live-and-in-person element, and it's a wildly different approach to stand-up comedy when compared to Netflix, so it will be interesting to see how this pans out in the coming months.
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It was inspired by a mix of Ansari's stand-up comedy, content from his book Modern Romance: An Investigation and actual events that happened to him years ago (including getting asked to do an Indian accent, which was depicted in the "Indians on TV" episode).
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The Cyanide & Happiness Show is among a handful of Seeso originals like The UCB Show, from hosts, creators and Upright Citizens Brigade founders Amy Poehler, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and Matt Besser, and special stand-up comedy specials such as Cameron Esposito's Marriage Material.
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His weaponization of humor as the means of escape from a conventional life isn't his achievement alone, obviously, but very few writers have been so funny on the page before or since, especially not in that unhinged, stand-up comedy in hell kind of way.
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But the hallowed status that Cosby occupied as one of the world's most beloved entertainers -- an icon who parlayed the universality of his stand-up comedy into several successful TV series, none bigger than "The Cosby Show" in the 1980s -- had been irrevocably tarnished.
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Louis C.K. has been at the top of the stand-up comedy scene for nearly a decade, bridging the gap between observational club stand-up and experimental alternative comedy by approaching routine topics from a novel angle, attacking hypocrisies and attempting to defend the indefensible.
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Doubling down on his unrestrained and engaging set from the Netflix stand-up comedy series The Standups, Cole beta-tests bottomless jokes about offering mints to strangers, dining while Black, post-sex salutations and the preservation of comedy as the last raw form of expression.
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His slate of upcoming projects includes the officially announced Country Music and Ernest Hemingway both for 2019, along with a confirmed 2021 project (co-directed with Sarah Burns and McMahon) on Muhammad Ali, and a heavily rumored project about the history of stand-up comedy.
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Most of the stand-up lives up to that lofty aim, thanks to favorite Dope Queens guests like queer comedian Rhea Butcher, Master Of None guest star Aparna Nancherla, or Michelle Buteau, who will star in one of Netflix's new, bite-sized stand up comedy specials.
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Today, Austin and Danika talk to the host of the trivia game phenomenon HQ, Scott Rogowsky, about his beginnings in stand-up comedy, the transient bliss of HQ, grappling with new found fame, what exactly counts as cheating (no googling!), and the development of the HQ community.
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Earlier this year, Dave Chappelle made his much-awaited return to the stand-up comedy special game with Deep in the Heart of Texas, positioning himself as an elder statesman lecturing a new generation about things like the inconvenience of addressing transgender people by their correct pronouns.
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The hour-long season finale of FLOPHOUSE airs tonight at 10:30PM Then on the finale of our stand-up comedy show, FLOPHOUSE, we head back to LA for an hour-long comedy special hosted by Solomon Georgio, Eric Dadourian, and James Johnson in their garage.
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Now 58, Murphy was nominated for a 2020 Golden Globe Award for his starring role in the movie "Dolemite is My Name" and he also recently signed a deal with Netflix (worth an undisclosed amount) to create his first stand-up comedy special since 1987's "Raw."
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Like many other millennials, Shlesinger has mastered the hustle of multiple jobs: When not performing stand-up comedy around the world, she has found time to host her own late-night talk show, author a book of essays, co-star in films, and helm her own podcast.
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Pete Holmes and Judd Apatow's sitcom about a nice white guy trying to reconcile modern life, stand-up comedy and his Christian faith really hit its stride in its final season, demonstrating a confidence and an edge that a lot of more obviously topical shows could envy.
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If you listen ... And often the comedians that America says are the highest expression of stand-up comedy are comedians who, you put on a Lenny Bruce record right now, we would be sitting here like we were listening to somebody talk about algebra, you know.
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Hart, who is known for his stand-up comedy and comic roles in movies including "Ride Along," was able to leave the scene of the crash with a second passenger, who was not badly hurt, and head to his home nearby to get medical attention, CHP said.
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His show, which consists almost entirely of a multipart video installation, focuses on another artist obsessed with the same subject, the performer Richard Pryor (1940-2005), who turned the facts and fictions of American blackness and whiteness into a blistering and supersonically brilliant career-long stand-up comedy act.
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While following the adventures of a Jewish divorcée investigating the world of stand-up comedy, Sherman-Palladino and her partner Daniel Palladino brought their usual sparkling dialogue, quirky side characters, and vivid sense of place to a show that's pretty to look at and invigorating to watch. Mrs.
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While series like Atlanta, Barry, and Glow had quite a bit of buzz going into Emmys night, Amazon Video's period piece newbie, about a wealthy 1950s housewife named Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) turning to stand-up comedy after her husband's marriage-ending affair, performed an admirable coup.
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In addition to TV shows, original and otherwise, Seeso will also be the home to live stand-up comedy – a type of programming that has proved to be very popular on other streaming services, like Netflix, which has a large catalog of standup specials available at any given time.
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The first episode of season 5 saw contestants coming for each other's wigs inside a dumpster as they fought over trashed fabric to use for a runway challenge, and the ladies of season 6 floundered in front of a live audience during a (mostly) painful stand-up comedy routine.
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"Despite Mo'Nique's extensive résumé and documented history of comedic success, when Netflix presented her with an offer of employment for an exclusive stand-up comedy special, Netflix made a lowball offer that was only a fraction of what Netflix paid other (non-Black female) comedians," the lawsuit says.
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Dillard's brand of neo-Transcendentalist prose-poetry is, in this light, a distant cousin of stand-up comedy: a risky solo performance that depends, to a large extent, on the unusual motions of a mind, as rendered in a deliberately heightened style, with the goal of ecstatic density.
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Watch the trailer for the new episode of FLOPHOUSE at Garbage Party in New Orleans Then on our stand-up comedy show, FLOPHOUSE, comedian Sean Patton hosts a backyard stand-up show in New Orleans, featuring performances from Kamari Stevens, Andrew Polk, Mary-Devon Dupuy, Jon Reaux, and Geoff Gauchet.
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Yoram Bauman, who heads the Yes campaign (and who somehow makes his living by performing economics-themed stand-up comedy) proudly notes that three Republican state legislators support the initiative, and that it has not attracted the well-funded opposition from the oil lobby that a revenue-raising proposal might.
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The streaming service has already diversified somewhat from its original form, spending heavily on stand-up comedy, documentaries, and indie films to add to its list of licensed TV series and movies, but Hastings had some even more outlandish concepts in mind for where the entertainment industry would go next.
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Fortunately, that headliner is Rachel Brosnahan in the title role, and she remains sensational as the 1950s housewife who, in season one, discovered a knack for stand-up comedy, even inspiring real-life legend Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby, seen too sparingly in the episodes previewed) to take her under his wing.
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But few TV shows have captured the very specific ways that stand-up comedy can become a sort of proxy war among the comics who share a stage than HBO's Crashing, a vehicle for the comedian and podcast host Pete Holmes that is very, very loosely based on his real life.
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Full of poise, energy, and a heaping helping of swear-words, here are the best stand-up comedy specials on Netflix (US) right now: Look no further than this historic 1979 performance, shot in Long Beach, California, for evidence of why Pryor was one of the greatest of all time.
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"Alone Together," starting on Wednesday on Freeform, is the latest in an awfully long line of autobiographical comedies about comedy, and it embodies some of the genre's major misconceptions: that comics make good actors, that stand-up comedy is somehow inherently interesting or virtuous, that only comics experience youthful ennui.
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Two years ago, she was performing stand-up comedy when she met Blake Wilson, an aspiring comic himself who had relocated from Palo Alto, and they connected immediately: They shared a kind of hyperverbal, slightly dark, comedic sensibility; they were both thoughtful, but neither could ever be described as overly earnest.
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" Netflix declined to respond to Wolf's comments on "The Break," but Robbie Praw, the streaming service's director of original stand-up comedy programming, said that he and his colleagues were committed to "making sure that our stand-up slate has the world's most important voices and the world's funniest people.
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There's a whole collection of children's programming and stand-up comedy specials that mostly go unnoticed, as well as a Chelsea Handler talk show (renewed for 90 episodes) and Rob Schneider's attempt at making his version of Louie (Real Rob will air a second season next year, whether you like it or not).
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They brought me in as a well-rounded mentor, [as in] I can do stand-up comedy, I do radio, TV, I perform, I play an instrument… I failed so much in all of the careers that I'm in now that I talk to people about what it's like to not be good at it.
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Amy SchumerAmy Beth SchumerBette Midler, Scarlett Johansson give the maximum donation to Warren campaign Clint Eastwood defying boycott of Georgia over abortion bill Kemp tours Georgia movie studios to tamp down fallout from abortion law MORE, Ali Wong and other comedians are using pregnancy and motherhood as a rich source for their stand-up comedy.
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Neal Brennan: 3 Mics Through a combination of one-liners, stand-up comedy, and frank discussions about his own depression, Neal Brennan manages to make sad dude seem like less of a caricature and more like an actual, complex individual with whom you'd like to share a plate of nachos and discuss your childhood.
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