My standup career was blooming in Chicago and I chose standup.
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When I started doing standup, I knew I would become a true standup if I have the same experience doing standup as I did performing poetry.
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Stop dating the standup comic because you want to be a standup comic.
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This is standup, and this is standup form a black comedian in 1961.
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Do you find either that particular era of standup comedy romantic, or the whole profession of standup comedy romantic?
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But it continues a narrative that queers don't do regular standup, and regular standup is no place for queers.
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Then we tend to use standup comedians, because standup comedians have to be observant, witty, and think on their feet.
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Davidson did standup for years before Saturday Night Live, including appearances on Comedy Central, which premiered his first standup special in 2016.
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"I started doing standup because of Hugh Grant's best-man speech in 'Four Weddings,' which is basically a standup routine," he said.
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I loved Nanette, and I love that it PROBLEMATIZED standup, but I didn't love that Hannah had to declare she was leaving standup.
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Young comedians vie for the public spotlight during the standup boom of the 1970s — it's a happy middle ground between serious comedy history and actual standup.
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One thing I love about your standup is that there's not a whole lot of self-deprecation, which is pretty unusual for standup comedy in general.
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While Haddish has been in the comedy world for years, and her standup has been featured in various specials and programs, this is actually her first standup comedy special.
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I wanted to tell my story, but I also want to continue my standup career because all the great things that ever happened to me in my life came through standup.
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It follows the timeline of Williams' life predictably: early student acting experiences, standup, TV stardom via Mork & Mindy, drug abuse and recovery, more standup, a film career, mental illness and death.
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She doesn't jump from joke to joke in her standup.
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He and I were both trying to get into standup.
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Kevin Hart is taking his standup to the small screen.
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Gadsby criticizes standup because it doesn't end in a moral.
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I like the fact that standup ends in a tension.
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There, somehow, he spun it into an extraordinary standup show.
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"Satire works in standup, film, rap, for sure," he said.
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Apparently wearing funky blazers is a requirement when doing standup.
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What could be better than that for a standup comedian?
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By 2006, Nanjiani had been doing standup for five years.
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Standup and Reports will be released in the coming weeks.
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Before I was a standup comic, I was an actor.
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I see it with my son when he does standup.
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"Here's the deal …" like a standup comic doing a Biden
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"We're all risking our lives for standup comedy," she said.
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"I love writing, hanging with my friends, standup," he said.
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In my early years doing standup, I bombed a lot.
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"All the great things came through standup," Morgan recently told PEOPLE.
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That DeGeneres is returning to standup comedy at all is significant.
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Grande shared a video of Davidson doing standup in Los Angeles.
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Apatow notably jokes about the comedian Bill Cosby in his standup.
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The most popular post reads like a self-contained standup joke.
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He was obsessed with standup and wanted to learn about it.
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For an assignment, he created a standup routine about his thesis.
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Stump speeches have frequently been compared to a standup comic's act.
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Acting talent isn't essential to standup, but it definitely improves it.
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My apologies to WCBS reporter Janelle Burrell for ruining your standup.
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Her work suggests an antic self-awareness typical of standup comics.
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I've only been listening to Justin Bieber [laughs] and watching standup.
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The first time she did standup, she wore a giant wig.
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The standup basement and attic are almost 1,000 square feet each.
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NextUp Comedy wants to tap into audience love for standup specials
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His latest standup special, "Kid Gorgeous," is available now on Netflix.
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For standup comedians, the Netflix special has become the brass ring.
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Standup comics read a room; Mr. Musleh reads his back seat.
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And we knew that there was an appetite for his standup.
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Maybe in standup a woman gets to yell a little bit.
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So, you got some standup that started the show, then a musical act, then some more standup, and then at the end of the night, Dave Chappelle would come out and perform for about an hour.
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"It's a scary time to do standup," Hall says near the outset.
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"Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin" Netflix (2017) All of his standup.
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It'll be a weekly mixture of talk show, standup, and sketch comedy.
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The two met when they toured together, performing standup around the country.
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Master of None is like standup, every episode is a different topic.
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Mike and I hosting our first standup show, "Middle Ground," in Williamsburg.
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Standup for Kids doesn't just provide donated items to young homeless people.
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He likes standup, but doesn't want to tour (he doesn't like planes).
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Imagine a combination of a TED Talk, standup routine and confessional sermon.
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Based on Redd's standup work, he could be the next "SNL" standout.
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In 2013, Nanjiani filmed an hour-long standup special in Austin, Texas.
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Another boathouse member, returning from a standup paddle ride, watched him go.
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I'd play the sousaphone of course because it's a marching standup tuba.
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Of course standup shouldn't require her to denigrate herself as a woman.
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Patriot Act is part talk show, part news commentary, part standup set.
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In his standup comedy and public appearances, he plays the anti-P.
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We also are fortunate, because of the [financial independence afforded by] standup.
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"He's been a standup guy as a stepfather," my Uber driver said.
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"It's bizarre doing standup in the middle of all this," she admitted.
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When I first began performing, standup felt like a mode of escapism.
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She was furious when he quit to try standup comedy and writing.
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Halfway through the season, Mr. Garrison's Trump appeared as a standup comic.
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The clear, warm waters lure snorkelers and practitioners of standup paddle boarding.
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Alison Leiby is a standup comic and writer in New York City.
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Burnham launched his career as a teenager making funny videos on YouTube, but he's gone on to be a hugely successful standup comedian, a director of standup specials, and an actor in numerous great movies and TV shows.
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Standup comedian Ralph O. "Ralphie" May died on the morning of Friday, Oct.
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Slate performed a standup set at The Sinclair in Cambridge's Harvard Square neighborhood.
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She was pregnant with the baby when she taped The Honeymoon Standup Special.
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Not only as a standup [comedian], but as producers and directors and writers.
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Tonight at midnight (PT) my new Standup special Tamborine becomes available on Netflix.
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The Comedy Store was the first place where it was exclusively standup comedy.
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"Cudi's the best out of all of them," the standup comic, 22, explained.
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Haddish, a successful standup comedian, isn't known for keeping her opinions to herself.
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That's what I did with this standup, I fought to do it right.
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Aziz Ansari is dropping a surprise standup special with Spike Jonze on Netflix.
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I called this a speech, but he performed it like another standup special.
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She brilliantly points out how standup has been guilty of helping problematic men.
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Ball remarried to standup comedian Gary Morton just a year later in 1961.
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After 15 years, we all really need some Ellen standup in our lives.
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Kellyanne Conway's standup had more bite and a better sense of what hits.
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Fowler proceeded to knock a standup RBI triple to make it 4-2.
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Ian Harvie A former standup comedian, Harvie has starred in several TV series.
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I just do standup comedy on the side, to keep a low profile.
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It also reminded me that I care about truth, justice and standup comics.
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But the most poignant part of the episode came in Schumer's standup segment.
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He followed his mother, the comedian Sally Marr, into life as a standup.
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But Haddish's love for standup and ability to personalize material sets She Ready!
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We'd love to have you back in the Standup New York Comedy Club.
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In standup comedy, the contrast between those two states is so depressingly clear.
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I tried to think about that when I was writing standup for myself.
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On the standup circuit, he still plays more than 200 shows a year.
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He directed early performances from the cello and evolved into a standup conductor.
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He brought a drink with him to the stage; a standup roadie (tequila).
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WM: I mean, he got the show because he was a great standup.
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Dave Chappelle isn't the only guy with standup specials coming out on Netflix.
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After she graduated, standup seemed like the simplest way to get back onstage.
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She performs standup eight to 16 times over the course of a week.
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Who do you turn to when you need advice on writing standup material?
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Netflix says it will not move forward with his next planned standup special.
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Whenever Midge gets up on the standup comedy stage, her scenes are electrifying.
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John Mulaney's new standup special The Comeback Kid is now available on Netflix.
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"I'm doing my first standup shows in 15 years," DeGeneres announced on Twitter Thursday.
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As Sasha, Wong isn't as brazen or bawdy as she is in her standup.
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Variety reports that the company is working with Ellen DeGeneres for a standup special.
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"You can't call anybody anymore," declared comedian Aziz Ansari in his 2015 standup special.
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And judging from this teaser, if you enjoyed her political standup, you'll enjoy this.
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Dating and romance has long been a subject of much of Ansari's standup routines.
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And so through the magic and the standup, I got to know my voice.
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It also acts as if men are the only people who do standup comedy.
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In 2012, Daniel Tosh made a rape joke during a standup set in California.
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"If everything else fails, if this guy's too good with standup," he told himself.
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Netflix dropped his standup special, and HBO and FX both cut ties with him.
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"I went through a phase of watching a lot of standup comedy," Thacker said.
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"I'm doing my first standup shows in 15 years," DeGeneres posted on social media.
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The first three tools set to be released are Fire bot, Standup and Reports.
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Crist has gained popularity in recent years for his Christian-themed standup comedy routines.
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"We did a full – full body standup of photographs and inspection," Detective Costello said.
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Many are live streaming improv shows and short standup sets for a small fee.
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A performer and standup comedian, Winstead frequently appears on MSNBC, CNN, and Comedy Central.
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It's the only job where you get immediate feedback, when you're onstage doing standup.
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Last fall, during a hiatus from filming, he launched a fifteen-city standup tour.
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I had just quit my job to go on tour as a standup comedian.
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Maybe you can even carry around a mic and try your hand at standup.
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"Standup comedy has helped me heal because it's really given me purpose," she said.
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Which is where, in 2010, I met my future wife at a standup show.
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In his final year, he won a campus comedy competition, and started doing standup.
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So we're not just guessing what it might sound like when he's starting in standup.
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It was one of the few times my wife came to watch me do standup.
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One of the weird relaxing things of standup is that it's not about the words.
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Standup, she says, has changed since she first started out in the 80s and 90s.
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"Ev led it, and he was like a standup comic sometimes," said the ex-employee.
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He'd done some standup, and started posting the funny things patients would say to Facebook.
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It was the first place he performed standup more than a year after his accident.
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" Sophie's standup is terrible — her catchphrase is the episode's title, "Put that on your plate!
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In that particular standup bit, drawn from Williams' 1979 comedy album Reality: What a Concept!
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For Sister Cindy, the band's standup bass player, the trip is a dream come true.
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Her point about self-deprecating humor being a huge engine of standup is spot on.
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To finish off the night I threw on one or two of Rogan's standup clips.
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And truthfully, masterfully, he translated the time dealing with that loss into genuinely great standup.
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As much as I love The Ellen Show, I've seriously missed Ellen DeGeneres' standup specials.
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The biggest standup comedians sell out large shows and star in multimillion-dollar-grossing films.
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Netflix announced that it will no longer move forward with a planned C.K. standup special.
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" The comedian is best known for his standup comedy and his sketch series, "Chappelle's Show.
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Standup will summarize GitHub activity in advance of common weekly standups, effectively vocalized progress reports.
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Maybe it's the do-it-for-the-story ethos inherent to being a standup comedian.
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"He can definitely make a living doing standup again, as this shows," Mr. Tompkins said.
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Her standup show will be filmed in front of a live audience twice September 10.
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It carried over the head of Gonzalez and off the wall for a standup double.
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When Tony started his standup career, Chris was already a celebrity in New York City.
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And Fury commandeered the microphone and strutted across the makeshift stage like a standup comedian.
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The meet-cute: He's a Pakistani-American standup comedian; she heckles him during a set.
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The film is based on the real-life exploits of standup comedian Rudy Ray Moore.
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Standup specials now release regularly and improv is woven into most sitcoms behind the scenes.
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"She was nice, she had a caring nature, she was a standup person," he said.
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Stumbling unaware into a standup show is a mistake New York City tourists make daily.
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Saturday Night Live alum Leslie Jones has a new Netflix standup special coming January 14.
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As Burgundy told Jimmy Fallon, standup has been a "lifelong passion for about a week now".
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The dinner, attended by journalists and politicians alike, featured standup routines from Richmond and Republican Sen.
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Several young men were spotted eating multiple burgers at the standup tables dotting the East Room.
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In a standup mixer fitted with the dough-hook, combine the yeast, and 23 cups water.
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Buteau, who wasn't doing standup at the time, says her riffing was at all time high.
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In 2018, standup comedy is almost as inescapable as politics, and the two overlap fairly often.
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Is he the kind of person who accepts dirty money, or he is a standup guy?
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Netflix has a first real look out this week at Dave Chappelle's two upcoming standup specials.
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But after a brief attempt at being a standup comic, he found his passion in writing.
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For every visit, Ferrell, as Burgundy, did an opening standup set packed with hilariously unfunny jokes.
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Shortly after they married, they went on a "Honeymoon Tour," also performing standup around the country.
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The money I make on standup comedy is not gonna put three kids through private school.
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I was in my 30s and I had been doing standup comedy since I was 53.
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He looks and talks like a resort standup working the Borscht Belt -- but without the jokes.
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There was no way that he could go back into doing standup without addressing his tragedy.
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Because God knows he's been one of the most private and standup people I've ever met.
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People wonder why there are more men doing standup than women, well here's your fucking answer.
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Sara Schaefer is a critically acclaimed standup comedian, writer, and producer currently based in Los Angeles.
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Trevor Noah will perform standup there, along with others from "The Daily Show," on June 26.
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In 2017, Chris Rock saw an HBO special that Burnham directed for the standup Jerrod Carmichael.
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Each stop was part Trump rally, part standup show, part PowerPoint deck, and part bigoted rant.
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"I'm very thankful to Adam Katz, I think he was a standup guy," the mother concluded.
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That year her "Roseanne" star was red hot on ABC, and her standup career was thriving.
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TV: You've mentioned you have an expert, you have a standup comedian, you have a celebrity.
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The first season ended with Midge giving a triumphant, confessional standup set at a downtown club.
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In the meantime, we'll just be over here on the couch practicing standup with Steve Martin.
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Jones will now be focusing on her new Netflix standup special, set to air in 113.
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Somebody can enjoy your standup and not necessarily like you because it is an art form.
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If early 90s standup comedy taught me anything, it's that everyone hates going to the dentist.
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No, that's not some hack joke from some even hackier dude comedian's standup set from 1993.
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As this private online meltdown was occurring, I was still doing standup in the real world.
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They held daily standup meetings and people worked in the same office to finish the task.
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Murphy's latest nomination is for his role as a standup comedian in "Dolemite Is My Name."
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A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.
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He was very fluid, and in a deep crouch, but it was still a standup style.
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In this telling, he's a failed standup comedian, which sounds pretty chilling all on its own.
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Jerry Lewis, legendary actor, filmmaker, and controversial standup comedian, has died in his Las Vegas home.
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Given that they both come from a background in standup, they seem like a natural fit.
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She will now be focusing on her new Netflix standup special, set to air in 2020.
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Were you into Christian comedy at all, even before you were thinking about standup as a profession?
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The show is part standup set, part discussion podcast hosted by comedians Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams.
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Ansari has kept a relatively low profile since the allegation, though he resumed performing standup last fall.
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As an artist, he's one of the few standup comedians who can rightly be called a genius.
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Jamie Kennedy went crazy on a fan who burped at the wrong time during his standup set.
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On Sunday, footage of a leaked standup set by C.K. at the Comedy Cellar surfaced on YouTube.
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The Federal Communications Commission launched a podcast yesterday, playfully named after George Carlin's famously explicit standup routine.
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We know that Joseph is a standup guy because of how he treats his wife and daughters.
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Maisel, a potentially ambitious comedy about a 1950s New York housewife learning how to do standup comedy.
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And everybody's getting the courage to come out, and this happens on a daily occurrence in standup.
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She sought solace in laughter, which almost feels ironic, given the weight that standup has right now.
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Then a single mother, Behar spent her evenings honing her standup skills at dingy Manhattan comedy clubs.
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The new shows come in a range of formats including animation, sketch, standup, reality and late night.
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Martin's standup career ended abruptly due to his skyrocketing fame, although he never formally quit live comedy.
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It is brutally honest and brutally smart, which are both things I aspire to in my standup.
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Nearly three years later, Morgan is telling jokes in the standup special about his hard-won recovery.
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It's like if you are a standup and you try and go on stage after Robin Williams.
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The comedian Maria Bamford has woven her treatment for depression and bipolar disorder into her standup routine.
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She's a professor at University College London by day and, on occasion, a standup comedian by night.
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He got his professional start in local radio and television doing voices, puppetry work and standup comedy.
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It makes me think that Hillary's true comedic talents may not lie in standup, but in improv.
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Pete Holmes's series "Crashing" is a semi-autobiographical portrait of a standup comic whose marriage has ended.
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With a live band on stage and unmatched energy, Todd Glass delivers his best standup special yet.
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The latter also included the hashtags #flushot #bebold #sayno #vaccineinjury #educatebeforeyouvaccinate #vaccinefree #flu #standup #dontgetpressured and #peerpressure.
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He seems like a very standup guy for someone who is about to seemingly kick the bucket.
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You need to reach back to Robin Williams's standup sessions to find the same level of flit.
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Ms. Robinson is a standup comedian and podcaster who has worked on "Broad City" and other shows.
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In August 19603, C.K. made a public comeback doing standup at a New York City comedy club.
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The car suddenly exploded, killing a ToloNews cameraman and reporter while they were recording a live standup.
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CreditCreditTawni Bannister for The New York Times Four years ago, Phoebe Robinson was just another standup comedian.
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A Los Angeles native, Matt auditioned in the standup comedy genre during the show's premiere in July.
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During his 2007 Fame standup tour, in particular, the comic courted controversy with this brand of humor.
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It looks like a growing class of South Asian comics coming up online and in standup clubs.
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"He and I were both trying to get into standup," Newhart tweeted after news of Daily's death.
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Morgan, who had always been able to make people laugh, was urged by friends to try standup.
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Celebrate New Year's Eve with an abundance of specials, or kick back and watch standup on Netflix.
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It's basically a standup comedy routine defending Hillary Clinton against a bizarre sexist attack from Donald Trump.
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We talked about it, we have standup meetings every Monday afternoon and I talk to them about.
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Where to watch: Hulu Midge Maisel finds an unlikely calling in standup comedy after her husband leaves her.
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Cameras weren't rolling at the event, but a tipster sent us a stealthy recording of Pai's standup set.
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The comedian did a standup special Saturday night at the Apollo Theater, and went off about getting blackballed.
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The dinner, attended by journalists and politicians alike, featured standup routines from Richmond, as well as Republican Sen.
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Standup meetings or quantity of code written often don't explain if an engineer is closer to completing something.
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I was talking just the other day to a man who is a teacher and a standup comic.
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" Earlier this month, comedian Iliza Shlesinger told Refinery29 that "standup comedy for women is one giant sexual harassment.
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Of course, the president had pulled off his own code switch at the end of his standup routine.
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I take one out of the fridge and turn on the new Amy Schumer standup special on Netflix.
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By the early 60s he had achieved widespread recognition as a standup comedian and Grammy winning recording artist.
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I was reminded of why I got into standup in the first place—so I could be heard.
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If Clinton's staffers were terrified of her as Shattered alleges, they did a standup job of hiding it.
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The only liberal-baiters we had grown up with were oafish standup comics on Britain's seedy club circuit.
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It stars Ron Funches, a standup comedian, as well as Alan Tudyk, who's known for his improvisational skills.
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Ms. Notaro, a comedian, created the series with the screenwriter Diablo Cody, drawing on her autobiographical standup act.
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C.K. has been largely out of the public eye since then, save for some low-key standup performances.
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This isn't necessarily a bad thing, given our protagonist's aspirations in the male-dominated field of standup comedy.
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They had attended weddings, spiritual seminars, job fairs, standup-comedy contests, and the album releases of teen idols.
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Of course, this deal represents a coup for Netflix as it continues to fill out its standup library.
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After OBJ finishes his standup, he just trails off to join in a drill, and poof, he's gone.
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In the standup set, she talks about how she can't believe that's a word people think is appropriate.
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For example, take this fantastic joke from the System To Augment Non-speaker's Dialogue Using Puns (STANDUP) software.
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It was a great privilege and honor to be in here in the Standup New York Comedy Club.
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Maybe we're gullible or naïve, but that's why standup personas make such good springboards for memoirs or sitcoms.
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Watch: John Mulaney's standup special "Kid Gorgeous," one of our critic's picks for the best comedy of 2018.
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He has recently performed standup routines at the Eastville Comedy Club and the Pacific Standard, both in Brooklyn.
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The clue history for this entry reads like a notepad on a very corny standup comedian's bedside table.
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"Doing my standup routines led to some theatrical writing and later, roles in various plays," Mr. O'Connell said.
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At a recent Texas Rangers game, there was W., playfully photobombing a Fox Sports reporter doing her standup.
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" Another member: "Should we look at her past standup and work on the channel before making an offer?
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Cameron Esposito is a standup comic, actor and writer whose first book, "Save Yourself," is forthcoming in March.
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Black people who want to do comedy go into standup, where our heroes opened a lot of doors.
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Ellen DeGeneres just announced that she's embarking on a standup comedy tour, An Evening with Ellen DeGeneres, this summer!
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Honestly, that's the feeling of the first five years of doing standup for everyone that I know, certainly myself.
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His latest work, the Netflix standup special Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh, might come closest to providing a concrete idea.
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Maisel," about a 1950s housewife who turns to standup comedy, took home the Emmy for best comedy series. "Mrs.
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The show stars Rachel Brosnahan as a 1950s housewife who turns to standup comedy after her husband leaves her.
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In an interview with Vulture, the producer-writer-cum-standup comedian said that he doesn't give himself that title.
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Esposito explained that standup is all about getting the audience on board with what the performer has to say.
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The new comedy starring standup comedian Maria Bamford comes from Arrested Development's Mitch Hurwitz and South Park's Pam Brady.
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This is Gosling's second time hosting SNL and a first for both Gadot and Nanjiani, an experienced standup comedian.
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In this bit, Mr. Elliott played a hack standup comic as well as a weatherman going through the motions.
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Then after a couple years of improv, I eventually started to do standup and then switched over almost completely.
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The standup comedian took to Twitter on Thursday and shared a photo of herself basking in the sunshine — topless.
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So, in the wake of these allegations, women in comedy — standup, improvisors, and comedy writers alike — have started talking.
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That's one message driven home in a Dying Laughing, the upcoming documentary about the constant struggle of standup comedians.
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The comedian's first original Netflix standup special, Kevin Hart: Irresponsible, is hitting screens globally April 2, he announced Monday.
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I was making more money doing standup than I was doing a television show or a movie—cartoon money.
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The sheer influx of standup coupled with a rapidly changing political landscape means there's more room for queer comedians.
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Now I got to go through some more stuff just to get to this level and standard of standup.
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As he was doing his standup I told our producer, 'I think Rodney's having a stroke or heart attack.
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"We just lost one of the funniest most real brothers of all time," acclaimed standup comic Chris Rock wrote.
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The 30-year- standup comic from Los Angeles often jokes about living with Tourettes Syndrome, family dynamics and relationships.
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If you like Sarah Silverman for her raunchy standup, you may be surprised by the poignancy of her memoir.
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He has one request: Please don't do standup in the show — every comedian who gets a sitcom does that!
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Over the weekend, the company said that standup comedian Vir Das will have his own Netflix Original Comedy Special.
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David Grossman's "A Horse Walks Into a Bar" — an anguish-ridden self-portrait of a standup comedian in Israel.
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Eric Swalwell was on the show, doing a standup interview live from Capitol Hill, to discuss Trump's impeachment hearings.
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Outside of the show, Bailey is a standup comedian — a profession he says has helped with his television job.
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Critics worry about whether it's still ethical to admire Woody Allen 's movies or Louis C.K.'s standup routines.
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Mr. Fowler started doing standup at 17 and moved to New York from Hyattsville, Md., about nine years ago.
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The comedian and actor Louie Anderson has been traveling the country doing standup almost weekly since the early '80s.
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There's enough egomania that comes with standup that I don't think adding "changing the world" is a good idea.
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Rickles was the original insult comic — the standup who makes a sport of heckling the audience for a change.
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There's real Jim, there's standup Jim, there's TV Jim, and it's all destroying the IQ as we go along.
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Gadsby announces early on in her standup special Nanette — now streaming on Netflix — that she's going to quit comedy.
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Mr. Williams spoke fondly of the experience in interviews and even joked about their encounter in a standup routine.
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The movie examines Pakistani family traditions, millennial hookup culture and the Chicago standup world with both criticism and love.
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She had come out of both her enthusiasm for Mr. Burnham's standup and her affinity for the subject material.
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But they are much more open, and they can use [standup] as a platform to talk about their stuff.
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A more appealing way to enjoy the lake appeared when three standup paddle boarders glided by, silent as swans.
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"A couple of female standup comics I know refer to their kids as their Little Career Killers," she continued.
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They began sewing garments upstairs and adding new products: sweaters, rain gear, so-called standup shorts of stiff canvas.
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Up Next Catherine Cohen, 27, hosts Cabernet Cabaret, a weekly standup show at Club Cumming in the East Village.
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That is actually something from Put Your Hands Together [Esposito's monthly standup show at LA's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre].
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The Eufy HomeVac is a cordless standup vacuum with enough battery power to clean as many floors as you've got.
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Without question, Season 2 officially solidifies their status as one of the greatest comedic partnerships to grace standup in years.
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"In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets," he Tweeted after the show.
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The monologue got over 11 million views and built momentum for his standup specials, which debuted on Netflix in March.
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"There is growing popular pressure to standup up to this new tone of coming out of North America," Wayne said.
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I'm not at Vox HQ, this is a special episode we're taping in Standup, New York, home of Cadence 13.
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Harris first became known for his standup in the '90s, when he was on the HBO show Def Comedy Jam.
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On January 28, standup comedian Kunal Kamra boarded an IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh.
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His pal Nicole Blaine started a Kickstarter campaign to help him realize his dream of starring in a standup special.
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Comedian Hannibal Buress, in a standup set at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, did a bit skewering Cosby in October 22014.
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It took Ricky Harris, a comedian as comfortable in a raunchy standup set as he was in a family sitcom.
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I've been telling a standup joke since 2011 about how great it would be if Donald Trump became president [ Laughs].
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Standup was the only thing where you didn't need to know anybody or have an agent or get booked for.
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Maquoketa, Iowa (CNN)The tail end of Ted Cruz's stump speech Monday was half preacher's pulpit, half standup comedy hour.
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There wasn't a green cast on the standup bass, but the instrument is more defined and pops in the image.
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May, a standup comedian known for his Netflix and Comedy Central specials, died in Las Vegas after suffering cardiac arrest.
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You trust the person who says they need to leave early and miss tomorrow's standup because of a family thing.
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The award-winning standup comedian, sketch writer and movie star will debut her latest comedy special on Netflix March 7.
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Ms. Bamford, who has been treated for depression and bipolar disorder, has made that struggle a theme of her standup.
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Regulars also defended the table against comedians who didn't do standup at the Cellar, were hacks, or were dressed badly.
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" Jackson will be the host, and the show will include "standup, reality experiments, music, magic, dance and celebrity guest appearances.
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He doesn't just confine his jokes to his TV show or his standup: he also has an A+ Twitter game.
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Polanco hit a two-run standup triple to center to drive in Jake Cave and Mauer, who had both singled.
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"Standup comedy has kept my wits sharp," Bailey, who must quiz passengers with trivia with ease on Cash Cab, said.
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He is out every night keeping his standup skills sharp, at clubs including the Comedy Cellar, the Stand and Caroline's.
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Upon West's arrival, someone brought the rapper a plate of ribs that he ate while smiling at a standup table.
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Last year Showtime introduced "Funny Women of a Certain Age," a standup special featuring "mature women" delivering very mature jokes.
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Tell him we'll throw in a standup special and a revival in 2050 with special guest appearances by Steven Avery.
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How do you manage your identity on these different platforms, from Twitter to standup to your podcast, Politically Re-Active?
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It's not that their routines and source material are dated; it's that the entire vehicle of standup comedy is outdated.
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There is still comedy; as in Season 1, most episodes manage to get Midge on stage for a standup set.
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You can watch the full clip embedded above, and Julio Torres's recent half-hour standup special on Comedy Central's website.
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"One of my biggest fears is my son growing up and being gay," he said in a 2010 standup performance.
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Standup comedian Andrew Schulz built an audience relying heavily on YouTube, and he's often considered the pioneer of this model.
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The show features various comedy acts, both standup and variety, who perform in front of the judges and live audience.
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Each appearance by the San Diego "newsman" was different; in one he performed standup, in another he was a ventriloquist.
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The British standup comedian Romesh Ranganathan has drawn acclaim for his sly observations about race relations, cultural representation and fatherhood.
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After all, no standup comedian wants the constant interruption of a backseat participant, as any unassuming heckler will tell you.
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Monday Evening So I worked more on my standup tour, and then I thought I should watch the Oscars movies.
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That's kind of my, the way I think about the point of standup and live comedy is supposed to do.
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Eleven years on the road doing standup has given the comedian a unique empathy for the people of this country.
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Contributing Opinion Writer I've been doing standup comedy for 14 years, and at some point, I came to despise it.
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"Before I knew it—like half a year into dedicating herself to standup—she had a following," he told me.
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Hit up Stubhub or TodayTix to snag passes to plays, musicals, concerts, standup shows, or some other form of entertainment.
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They looked at standup comedians and TV stars, models and musicians, and even announced an open call on social media.
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But after moving to Washington, he put his head down, retired his standup routine, and focused on the legislative grind.
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His strategy for doing so was… being bad at standup, giving freewheeling in-character interviews, and also some light dummy murder.
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Crashing is almost a procedural, obsessed with the process of standup comedy, of writing jokes, of learning to be comfortable onstage.
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All the standup of Pete's needs to be — he's not good, but you could see how maybe he will be good.
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That's when I kind of started of realizing the similarities between standup comedians and just artists in general to professional wrestlers.
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Such a big part of my standup and my work is about wanting to make women feel connected, because we are.
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In addition, Antenna TV will broadcast Shandling's 1981 standup debut on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Friday at 11 p.m.
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"So many more women are involved right now, maybe women are thirty percent of who's doing standup right now," she said.
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Haddish is a standup comic whose credits include Keanu and NBC's The Carmichael Show, but Girls Trip shows she deserves more.
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Her performance as a Manhattan woman blazing her own path as a standup comedian is a major surprise, and a delight.
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Last month, comedian Louis C.K. returned to standup comedy for the first time after admitting to sexual misconduct in November 2017.
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Midge is spotted by agent Susie Meyerson, who is played by Alex Borstein (Getting On), and thus, her standup career began.
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In May, he reportedly returned to standup in New York City, the first sign that Ansari will be staging a comeback.
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If Bob murders someone over the weekend, it's probably good to know that when you meet Bob at Monday's standup meeting.
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The 43-year-old made a deal with Netflix to release three standup specials, two of which were released this week.
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There's a limit to standup as an art if we only think about it in terms of set-up and punchline.
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So we did those characters to host a standup show where we would have comics on and then interview them after.
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Steve Martin is famous not just for his comedy, but also for the way his standup career abruptly ended in 1981.
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It was, like, a laundromat, and they would do standup shows there in a back room a couple nights a week.
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We're in a moment where the most revelatory comedy standup is a performance where a comedian rejects comedy as a remedy.
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There will also be more entertaining content, featuring everything from standup comedy and Onion articles to horror, sports, and celebrity channels.
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I like John Elliott — the clothes are very comfortable, and I can wear them on stage when I am doing standup.
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In the show's magnificent pilot, Midge stumbles on stage drunk and her wine-fueled rant becomes her first standup performance. Rude!
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"It doesn't smell like adult poo," the president told him, a line he now quotes in his standup act and appearances.
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Although he has been a working standup since his senior year of high school, he has suffered from abject stage fright.
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Instead, he has been a sketch comic; a standup comedian; a writer on "20133 Rock"; an actor on "Community"; a d.j.
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The standup comedian turned his cutting satire into a weapon in the struggle for civil rights and anti-Vietnam War activism.
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This morning I have a 9am - standup for work - zoom circle time for 4 yo- google meeting for 103st grader All.
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I myself was convinced of the Cosby sexual assault allegations the way many Americans were: via Hannibal Buress's viral standup routine.
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An earlier version of this article included an incorrect price for a standup-paddle-board yoga class at Rockaway Jet Ski.
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But when you walk out there – for your speech, or song, or standup set, whatever – you know you have to deliver.
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But he did say that it was hard for him to imagine doing the same kind of standup in a decade.
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The loss of electricity did not stop comedians from putting on a standup show on March 30, albeit one without light.
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Woodson, to be fair, won 54 games in 2013 and the team's only playoff series since 2000 without a standup routine.
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My relationship with standup comedy has improved, especially since it started working on itself and trying to be a better partner.
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She has a point, but it gets lost in her standup in a way that it doesn't in her TV specials.
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This recent news, capping a standup year of N.B.A. social activism and outspokenness, was soul-cleansing music to Dave Bing's ears.
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He had on a worn chili-red polo shirt, khaki standup shorts, and flip-flops—burly forearms crossed over a paunch.
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Another great example and you see it all across the league, people are reconfiguring ballparks to have those standup millennial areas.
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She could relate to drag—creating a persona was as much a part of her art as singing or standup was.
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As Netflix tells it, Dave Chappelle "charges straight into the fire" with his two newly released, "blistering" and "searing" standup specials.
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But also, the zip and tension that the standup scenes provide are absent in many of the show's other plot lines.
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I recently talked with Esposito about Marriage Material, how she developed her own standup voice, Hillary Clinton, and, yes, our periods.
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The reason I think this relates to my standup special and everything else is because, like, women can be [called out].
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Also, those 10 years that I've been doing standup were the 10 years that marriage equality came to the United States.
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It has shown off its might by signing David Letterman to a deal at reportedly $2 million an episode for his new talk show series, giving Chris Rock a reported $40 million for two standup specials and handing Jerry Seinfeld a reported $100 million for his interview program, "Comedians in Cars Drinking Coffee," and standup shows.
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Everyone else is at home watching some standup comedy special while you're trying to find the best videos to watch on YouTube.
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Aldo, meanwhile, pieced his American foe up throughout the standup exchanges, bloodying his face and dropping him on more than one occasion.
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The empty theater is key: It's a change of pace from the usual standup intro featuring a packed house and rapturous applause.
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He won the 2015 and 2016 Charleston Standup Comedy Competition and was named the best local comic in the Charleston City Paper.
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KANYE WEST We know all about West's self love, thanks to Aziz Ansari's 2010 standup album Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening.
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Even if I'm onstage and I'm doing standup, and I have a cool outfit, that just serves as a sort of dressing.
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You might be curious why Judah Friedlander — standup comedian, actor, writer, artist, activist — is appearing on the Disrupt NY stage next week.
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Mike performing an hour of standup at Legion Bar in Brooklyn, NY. Technology has altered the way people grieve for the better.
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The Saturday Night Live star is set to headline an hour-long standup comedy special on Netflix, the streaming giant announced Friday.
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Why is it that comedic television shows often star men from improv or standup backgrounds, but no women from the same 'verse?
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So, needless to say, I quite literally jumped for joy today when DeGeneres announced that she's filming a standup special for Netflix.
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"With our improv background, we used to do sketch improve and standup, that's the next thing I'd love to do," Drew says.
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Comedy was also a part of traditional Nigerian theatre and storytelling long before standup came to the country, in the nineteen-eighties.
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The movie's release has since been canceled, and Netflix isn't moving forward with its plan to produce a second C.K. standup special.
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Standup comedy is a far cry from inventing, but experimentation is just as key in the arts as it is in science.
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Mr. Birbiglia, 38, tours as a standup act and pops up in TV shows ("Orange Is the New Black") and films ("Trainwreck").
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A New York woman drowned after trying to assist a fellow member of her standup paddleboard yoga class, reports on Friday said.
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He has been dipping his toes back into standup, preferably in "low-stakes" situations, and said that the panic attacks have stopped.
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In standup, there is no fourth wall: there's just you and the words you throw at the audience to see what sticks.
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Fans of standup comedy, or the sitcom "30 Rock," would probably recognize the excited fan as Judah Friedlander, the comedian and actor.
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During a pre-game segment, the New York Giants wideout saw an opportunity to throw down some steps and mime a standup.
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She wanted us to help her move beyond the limitations of standup comedy and to support her wish to speak as herself.
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After Williams struck out, Frazier drove a standup triple off the wall to bring in Stallings for a 2-1 Pirates lead.
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Mr. Blankenbuehler demonstrated come-hither moves to two female dancers (far right, above) for a musical transition that involved a standup bass.
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Reggie (Nate Miller), a standup comedian in his 30s with substance abuse issues, has invited two old friends to an upstate farmhouse.
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Rosie O'Donnell apologized if there were any Indian people in the room during a standup set in Provincetown, Massachusetts, this past July.
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It could have been the punch line in a standup bit, except that no one seemed to know if she was joking.
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A source at the event tells PEOPLE that Schumer did a standup routine before introducing the governor, who turns 62 on Friday.
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A scroll through the web turns up a video of a white standup comedian, Will Carey, performing a bit about the sandwich.
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" The comic said she'll soon start on a new series of standup dates with fellow comedian Andrew Dice Clay, dubbed the "Mr.
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"I have never gone to a standup comedy show and bawled my eyes out as much as I did," she told Gadsby.
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No matter how time-consuming her standup routines are, Ms. Wolf is adamant that she will continue to perform her own material.
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Dryden said it was not until after he stopped playing that he realized the standup style was simply a compromise for safety.
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It was a blue standup set delivered at a board of directors meeting, a cruel roast offered at a child's birthday party.
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The screwdrivers have reinforced tips, the 13-ounce hammer is rock solid, and the 16-foot tape measure offers excellent standup ability.
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Amy Schumer's first stand up special will stream on March 7, and Chris Rock reportedly nabbed $40 million for two standup specials.
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I know that the standup scene seems like a weird way to fight for political change, but tell that to Jon Stewart.
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It's going to be a hot and terrible August, so turn on the AC and escape into some movies, TV, and standup comedy.
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Parrow slammed the comedian after he allegedly mocked the teenagers' efforts for stricter gun control laws during a standup set earlier this month.
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Martin eventually got over it, went on, and talked to Fallon about what it was like to do standup after all that time:
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Seales is back on the small screen, but solo this time, for her standup comedy special I Be Knowin', also debuting on HBO.
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It's a compelling showcase of Sandler's standup, and it falls perfectly in the middle of what appears to be something of a Sandlerssance.
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The second season of his series Master of None aired in 2017, and his first standup show for the platform dropped in 2013.
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Pollack understands humor well, and if her novel is approached as a very long standup routine, the coincidences become much easier to swallow.
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Seth Meyers will take a break from his desk duties on Late Night with Seth Meyers for a Netflix standup special this fall.
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Trump uses his body like a comedian doing standup -- think Robin Williams -- to amplify his emotions and say things that words cannot communicate.
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Fitting with the comedy's love of irony, Gadsby's declaration that Nanette was her quitting standup led to even more attention in her field.
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During his 2013 standup special Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, he addressed the demise of his eight-year first marriage to Torrei Hart.
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I met Mike through our friend's monthly standup show called "Be Good," and we started becoming friends after he messaged me on Instagram.
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I do standup comedy still, I'll be in Chicago November 280nd, 953rd and 295th at Zanies, and I promise it will be zany.
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Apatow related the story to Los Angeles' Regent Theater during a charity standup performance connected to new HBO series Crashing, The Wrap reports.
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Let us recall Buckner for what he was, an outstanding athlete, a well-liked teammate, a standup guy who accepted his bad break.
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Shore and his longtime writing partner Rudy De Luca founded the Comedy Store back in 1972, which became the preeminent standup club worldwide.
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Following in the wake of that legend's Live in Concert success, Murphy filmed one of his standup routines and Delirious was the result.
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And if you don't represent a mainstream story, that need to make fun of yourself as a standup can ultimately feel doubly oppressive.
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Fast forward to October 2014, when comedian Hannibal Buress did a standup routine in which he called Cosby a "rapist," which went viral.
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Garry Shandling: Stand-Up Shandling already had a standup special to his name by this point – 1984's Garry Shandling: Alone in Vegas.
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One was named "Chorus for Paul Mooney," after the great standup comedian and Pryor collaborator whose act hinges on barely controlled racial anguish.
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A new mobile VR app called Oculus Venues is designed for watching concerts, Major League Baseball games, standup comedy, and other live shows.
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With holes in her clothes, and borrowed shoes that didn't quite fit, Pashtana launched into a classroom standup routine before the teacher arrived.
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She was very successful as a standup, she was all over television, she was one of the leading headliners on the Vegas circuit.
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On The Wound and the Bow, Colin had a standup piano he got somewhere and he actually put a mic in the piano.
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Played to shifty perfection by standup comedian Robert Powell III, the fast-talking hustler Bibby traps Al in a bottle episode of sorts.
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And then, during the campaign, it was like he would go to these events and do these Andrew Dice Clay-type standup routines.
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And while fans know her from her hysterical "Saturday Night Live" sketches and "Weekend Update" appearances, Jones said she's a standup at heart.
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When he goes back out on that standup tour someday, I'll roll my eyes and say, 'All right, get on with it, then.
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What about the jokes we'll never hear from the women who decided that success as a standup wasn't worth watching Louis CK masturbate?
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He is known for his standup, and for playing television characters named Eugene ("Flight of the Conchords"), Gene ("Bob's Burgers"), and Yvgeny ("Delocated").
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A wide release for his upcoming film and his standup special have been canceled; several media companies have ended their relationships with him.
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But Lewis loomed particularly large in the landscape of 20th-century comedy, achieving fame as both a standup comic and an actor-director.
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But as McCrea saw it—echoing a number of standup comedians—it's still too soon for C.K. to be getting that kind of treatment.
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Jonathan Van Ness has been busy filming the third season of Queer Eye in Japan, working on his ice skating career, and doing standup.
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Standup might be a tricky bet for large groups, but it can pay off if you find a comic who suits your family's sensibilities.
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Steve Martin recently returned to standup after 35 years for a one-night show and the comedian insists he's used up all his material.
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Finally, FX, which aired the comedy-drama Louie based loosely on his life in standup, said it was "very troubled" by the Times' report.
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The semi-autobiographical and periodically surreal series draws from Bamford's own struggles with bipolar disorder, making it as an actress and her standup career.
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Meanwhile, FX, which aired the comedy-drama Louie based loosely on his life in standup, said it was "very troubled" by the Times' report.
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According to Deadline, Annette follows a widowed standup comedian (probably Driver) and his two-year-old daughter, and Rihanna will have a "small" role.
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In small rooms off the lab's various hallways, the advanced instruments of vision research spread out like standup games at a really difficult arcade.
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Bamford regularly writes and performs standup, but Lady Dynamite, created by Mitch Hurwitz and Pam Brady, was written by Brady's team of 12 writers.
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Gadsby's thoughts on self-deprecating humor are spot on, and her exploration of standup as a balance of tension and release were perfectly articulated.
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This held especially true in Chappelle's 11-minute opening monologue, which broke down to about two-thirds standup comedy and one-third earnest reflection.
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If this doesn't sound very funny, you've obviously never heard Tig's standup which is deadpan, silly, and darkly funny all at the same time.
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In real life, the comedian is a big fan of West and has shared his fair share of 'Ye stories during his standup routines.
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So much standup is about the projection of toughness, even if it's a neurotic kind — the willingness to go there and damn the consequences.
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Sam also introduced his brother to standup comedy, which Biggers has lately come to recognize as an important, if indirect, influence on his art.
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After initially apologizing amidst the fallout, the Emmy Award winner retracted the apology and kicked off a nationwide "Laugh Your Head Off" standup tour.
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The history of standup comedy in Nigeria, as with cartooning, is that of a deep-rooted culture finding resonance with a foreign art form.
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Then, with Steere still vaping, they talked through some jokes that Steere would use to warm up the crowd before Macdonald's standup that night.
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According to Variety, Netflix has announced that the comedian has inked a deal for three standup comedy specials to air on the streaming network.
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"Flophouse," at 10:30, visits Sylvan House in San Francisco, where resident comedians including Brent Weinbach and Caitlin Gill perform standup in the backyard.
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First, starting in 2003, there was the short-lived NBC sitcom "The Tracy Morgan Show," based loosely on Morgan's life and his standup routines.
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We do the same job, standup comedy, and we spent those two years traveling the country doing shows together: I opened and she headlined.
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But, like most standup comedians, he had a natural gift for performing in front of an audience, and he quickly warmed to the task.
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As someone who still roars with laughter at Redd Foxx's vintage standup routine titled "You Gotta Wash Your Ass," I don't necessarily think so.
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Like a seasoned standup, Khrushchev tells his wife which of his jokes made Stalin laugh, an accounting that she dutifully preserves for future reference.
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Though he passed on the bachelor party, he gave a "standup comedy shtick" toast that Mr. Perillo said had the crowd shouting his name.
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Youssef adapts a joke from his standup about how the day President Trump declared the Muslim ban was a great one for him personally.
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NextUp Comedy, HistoryHit and Paus are up-and-coming Netflix challengers, offering curated content in three different niches: standup, history documentaries and independent cinema.
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I am a standup comic and did not go to medical school, despite the many scrolls I may currently be doing across social platforms.
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" Friday at Sony Hall Once in a blue moon, I hear a standup joke that makes me think, "That is absolutely a perfect joke.
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"It's a magical place," Mr. Allen said, reflecting on an impromptu Monday concert in the courtyard, with a standup bass, trombone and drum set.
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Morgan, like every comic, has watched a lot of Richard Pryor, and his standup, like Pryor's, dwells on the viscera of working-class existence.
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We then took a taxi to the Comic Strip, on the Upper East Side, where a friend of Jones's was hosting a standup show.
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That's just a slice of classic standup, nothing strange or startling to any of us who are used to being the butt of jokes.
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"I like music a ton, but the problem is I like weird stuff," Donald Glover said during a filmed standup-comedy performance in 2011.
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Not long ago, Odeh was on a street in Nazareth, a largely Arab city, where he was about to do a standup television interview.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Cohen is a standup comedian known for her self-deprecating humor about being a woman dating in New York City.
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You know, this is going to sound arrogant, but stay with me: I started doing standup sort of to create my own role model.
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Schumer tells Wintour that it's "easy" to decide what's hot in the world of fashion, and Wintour tells Schumer she could be a standup comedian.
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The first performances on the Dorsey Brothers' struggling Stage Show the evening of January 28,1956, were jazz singers, acrobats, and standup, all family-friendly fare.
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If you've ever watched one of Russell Brand's standup routines, then you know the man has done a lot of crazy shit in his life.
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HC Sucks, because we had the acronym SUCS, the Standup Comics Society and there was a whole network across ... KS: Where'd you go to college?
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The last big change is a new version of Samsung's DeX Station, which has evolved from a standup dock-like affair to something more padlike.
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Schumer next has a new standup special Growing coming out on Netflix, which she filmed while pregnant with her and husband Chris Fischer's first child.
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One viewer, who called the film "male gazing garbage," and likened the screening to disgraced comedian Louis CK's standup, said Intermezzo featured zero male nudity.
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He's got this new girl, his standup is doing well, and — oh, yeah — he just sold a pilot based on his relationship with Mary Jane.
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Daily activities range from standup paddleboard to pool yoga, bird watching, tennis, bicycle tours, and making your own aloe scrub, many of which are included.
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Moore's delivery of Shange's poetic transliteration of black English—its elisions and rhythms—makes this flowering of first love also a kind of standup routine.
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Rachel Brosnahan, most recently from House of Cards, will star as Miriam Maisel, a well-0ff Jewish housemaker who discovers a passion for standup comedy.
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To call it standup is to gravely oversimplify; it's a one-man show, a seamless blend of humor and heart, and an entity unto itself.
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I tried "funny stuff," and Netflix suggested a Bill Burr standup, The Princess Bride and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
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" Then, when Handler started doing standup, she toned down her makeup because, as she puts it, "It was like, 'You can't be pretty and funny.
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Again, the assumed identity of the standup comic, which is this straight white cisgendered dude who's between 20 and 40 – those things are not true.
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Along with her standup comedy, she is a founding member of the comedy podcast The Guilty Feminist and creator of the Made of Human podcast.
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At least our Pennywise looks like a standup guy who can take a joke, as does that creep from Monterey who messed with Nicole Kidman.
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While doing a standup set in Los Angeles on Saturday, Apatow compared Trump's presidency to the feeling of being raped, according to The Daily Beast.
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All Fenix watches will get a software update that will include tracking for golf, standup paddleboarding, and rowing, as well as improvements in running measurements.
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Whether it's during a standup set or onscreen, Maz Jobrani has always been acutely aware of the role his ethnicity plays in his audience's reaction.
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HAIL HAIL A GENIUS HAS VACATED THIS REALM: #RIPKevinMeaney Kevin Meaney was a great standup, a terrifically funny actor and a very nice man. RIP
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Nobody cares when I think Louis should come back, and they're right not to care, I'm just some shmuck who happens to also do standup.
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But in this special, Greene heads back to his hometown to celebrate 37 years in comedy, doling out a mix of storytelling, standup and improv.
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ET, the standup comedian told the CNN host that she knew exactly how tough it is to be on the receiving end of internet trolling.
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Considering his dad is a standup comedian, the poor guy has probably witnessed enough dad jokes to last several lifetimes' worth of bad Easter jokes.
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I expected the news—Caitie had bagged a standup guy for three years—but the announcement felt like someone had punched me in the balls.
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"I just think she's such a brilliant actress and standup that it doesn't have to be this talk show for her creativity," de Rossi said.
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Riley finishes his tenure with a 224-212 record, which is about right for a man whose primary selling point was being a standup guy.
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The standup, who split from his wife of 18 years, Malaak Compton-Rock in 2014, was born in South Carolina but grew up in Brooklyn.
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Raymond was created by series star Ray Romano and sitcom vet Phil Rosenthal, and the two drew much of their material from Romano's standup comedy.
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Even in my standup, if I can do a joke about Jesus that an atheist and an evangelical will love, I find that a [treat].
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On the final night, Netflix will debut The Hall, a hall-of-fame style event honoring longtime standup legends like Robin Williams and Joan Rivers.
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But the standup comic Kumail Nanjiani (Dinesh on HBO's "Silicon Valley") is changing the archetype with his Sundance hit "The Big Sick," due in June.
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" Feig did standup in the eighties, and it did not surprise him that Jones hadn't "crossed over" earlier: "You get used to seeing that, unfortunately.
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Comedian Dave Chappelle's Netflix standup "Sticks and Stones" got some flack after he made jokes about Michael Jackson's accusers and said he doesn't believe them.
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Amber Rollo is a standup comedian, writer, actor, and one of the people who confronted Harvey Weinstein at a show in Manhattan on October 23.
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" In Hart's 2010 standup film, Seriously Funny, the comedian said, "As a heterosexual male, if I can prevent my son from being gay, I will.
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Lewis's death comes just days after the death of standup comedian Dick Gregory, and earlier this year, another cantankerous comedian, Don Rickles, died at 22011.
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Indeed, that's one of the primary reasons the series co-creator and star, standup comedian Jerrod Carmichael, wanted the audience there in the first place.
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"While San Francisco policymakers pursue common sense regulation of standup electronic scooters to enhance the public benefit of this new shared mobility technology and to reduce potential harm to the public, state legislators seek to eliminate elements of the Vehicle Code that exist to protect the health and safety of members of the public including users of standup electric scooters," Peskin wrote in his resolution.
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Standup comic Hannibal Buress skewered Cosby with a not-so-subtle reminder that the elder comedian had been accused of raping or sexually assaulting several women.
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At a recent open mic in Los Angeles, Mike Glazer donned a silver mask and a hoodie, climbed onto the stage, and began a standup routine.
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Villaseñor – the show's first Latina cast member – comes from a background of standup comedy, having toured over 100 venues across the country with monologues and impressions.
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This is the problem with white people, as Eddie Murphy assesses it in his 1983 standup comedy special Delirious: we stay in haunted houses, like idiots.
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It's an interesting role for Schumer, who's known for her extreme confidence in her standup comedy and persona on Inside Amy Schumer, but she sells it.
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Though the special's immediacy is surprising, Ansari has spent months returning to performing and touring standup, after a 2018 hiatus instigated by accusations of sexual misconduct.
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Maisel star won the 2018 Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for her performance as a budding standup comic in the Amazon series.
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The standup comedy NerdMelt Showroom in Los Angeles has hosted a couple of live podcast tapings every week, including Harmontown and Doug Loves Movies, for years.
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But at New York City's famous Comedy Cellar, where VICE News talked with standup Judy Gold, nothing is off limits (provided that the joke is funny).
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In 26, Dick was accused of exposing his genitals while dressed in drag and rubbing his scrotum on an audience member's face during a standup show.
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It brought to mind Tig Notaro's 2012 "Live" standup special in which she immediately admitted to the crowd she had just been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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On Tuesday's episode of America's Got Talent, Lori Mae Hernandez took the show by storm with a standup routine that even touched on the 2016 election.
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She began a long career in show business as a child actor in the 1950s and performed in a standup comedy competition as recently as 2008.
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Maybe you know her strictly from Saturday Night Live, or maybe it's her standup routine that's left you with an aching side from laughing to hard.
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When Girl Code star and standup comedian Jamie Lee first got engaged, she found herself plunging ring-first into a lace-trimmed minefield of bridal magazines.
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Cover(t) Stick Color Corrector, a recent addition to the Marc Jacobs Beauty line, is a swirl of two corresponding shades inside a squat standup tube.
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Cosby's starring role as beloved dad Heathcliff Huxtable in "The Cosby Show," along with years of family-friendly standup comedy routines, made him a household name.
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Her standup career led to her 1990s comedy series "Ellen," during which she became the first lead actor in a sitcom to come out as gay.
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"Doing standup is not a reward for being famous, please leave the weekend gigs for actual female comics," the comedian and "Conan" writer Laurie Kilmartin tweeted.
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"Standup for Drummers" is the logical extension of this trend, a special representative of the moment, when you create your jokes but also curate your crowd.
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If you don't have a punchline, and a premise people can relate to, your standup act will be met with dead silence or worse (usually worse).
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In an era when comics incessantly bemoan woke culture on podcasts or in interviews or specials, Gulman is the rare middle-aged standup that celebrates sensitivity.
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So it's a good thing that he ditches the jealous boy routine to be a standup guy, despite what Kat might have originally thought about him.
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Davis was doing a standup segment at Lincoln Financial Field when a cadet held up a flag that read "Go Army Beat Navy" and began laughing.
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WM: What it means to have him practicing standup comedy after leaving it for as long as he did after...Chappelle Show basically, after it ended.
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After my standup, I finally drink my mocha and text my best friend about our plans to go to a sewing party in Atlanta in November.
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Two other clubs, the Karura Comedy Club and the Standup Collective, were founded a year later; they jointly held the city's first comedy festival in December.
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Two other clubs, the Karura Comedy Club and the Standup Collective, were founded a year later; they jointly held the city's first comedy festival in December.
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But Hannah Gadsby's Netflix hour is indeed called Nanette — and it is a radical tour de force that calls out some of standup comedy's worst shortcomings.
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After a career in standup, sketch comedy, movies, and television, Janeane Garofalo will make her Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theater Company's "Marvin's Room" this summer.
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A video of the counselor to the president performing a standup routine has been unearthed on YouTube, and it is both very Conway and very, very '90s.
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It wasn't until recent years that she caught the comedy bug, churning her life and social media commentary on race, politics, womanhood and friendship into standup material.
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He was a 28-year-old college dropout who was working as an insurance salesman, but that didn't stop him from trying standup for the first time.
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Ansari, 36, announced the news on Monday, sharing a trailer for the standup special, Aziz Ansari: Right Now, which will begin streaming on Netflix on July 9.
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Wong is known for her scaldingly hilarious standup comedy specials like Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife, both of which she notably performed while many months pregnant.
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After Tyrion's killer Stark joke, we can only hope he gets a standup routine — if only to hear the end of that "honeycomb and the jackass" gag.
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The two had imagined a standup stand-in: someone who could channel jokes written by comedians around America who couldn't get in front of a mic themselves.
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" MK: [Laughs] "My opinion of standup is that everybody on stage is theirselves times two, three, four, five — all the way until you get into real characters.
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His recent film Eighth Grade was a departure from his standup roots, and was not permanently shelved because it was inextricably linked to his grotesque personal life.
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Only a few decades ago, it was unthinkable that a standup could find a national outlet to jokingly insult a celebrity on the day of his death.
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"It's because it's something he's not used to," Jose Calderon, the Knicks' much-maligned but standup point guard, said before Friday's 108-95 victory over the Magic.
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The episode was inspired by a bit in his 2015 Madison Square Garden standup show, in which he spoke of the daily harassment women endure by men.
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This is just one of many dangerous situations that Tozer, a 39-year-old standup comic and television writer, details in her candid book, Sober Stick Figure.
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And it has escaped the trap of trying to force standup comedy onto the printed page: Its comedy serves its medium rather than the other way around.
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The episode was inspired by a bit in his 2015 Madison Square Garden standup show, where he also spoke of the daily harassment women endure by men.
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Angie has never seen me do standup before, and when we used to live in Florida together we would always go down to the Palm Beach Improv.
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Frustrated with the TV stale formula, he started doing standup; then in 1985 co-created It's Garry Shandling's Show, an early inkling of his meta-comedy leanings.
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While appearing on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964, Sullivan used two fingers to signal to Mason that he had two minutes left in his standup act.
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Big Agnes Big House 6-Person Tent for $303 ($100 off): I like Big Agnes's backpacking tents, but this standup tent is ridiculously wonderful for the price.
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"I just think she's such a brilliant actress and standup that it doesn't have to be this talk show for her creativity," de Rossi tells the Times.
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One of the fathers of professional standup comedy is a fifty-three-year-old comedian named Atunyota Alleluya Akpobome, who goes by the stage name Ali Baba.
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"I just think she's such a brilliant actress and standup that it doesn't have to be this talk show for her creativity," de Rossi told the Times.
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Therefore when looking to lead, it's important to have courage, standup for what you believe in and be willing to accept that you won't always be liked.
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As poets, they complement each other: their writing is disarmingly earnest, but Kay's delivery is breathy and awestruck, whereas Kaye works the crowd like a standup comedian.
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When assembling the writers' room for Late Night, Meyers says, he looked outside other writers' rooms to the wider comedy world of improv, standup, and the internet.
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There's free pool, standup comedy, trivia night, and a DJ-curated dance party called Heatwave; it also has some of the best mixed drinks in the city.
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Naturally, their age difference — and the jokes Charlotte cracks about it during a standup comedy set — is something Lee has to come to terms with as well.
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What is the world like two years from now when, say, Louis C.K. is releasing a new standup special, which we all know is going to happen?
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Or "Nanette," a new Netflix standup special by Hannah Gadsby, a rousing commentary on the #MeToo movement and the price of silence exacted on women and minorities.
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The Emmy-winning series about a 1950s Manhattan housewife-turned-standup (Rachel Brosnahan) announces its return in a trailer as colorful and ebullient as the first season.
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"If it's a daily meeting where you are reviewing actions ... I would do a standup meeting where everyone is eye level and everyone moves on," said Faye.
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But you probably won't want to tune in until around 9:45 pm, when comedian Larry Wilmore will deliver a standup act before Obama takes the stage.
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Youssef, a comedian who lives in Chinatown, has been making frequent appearances at the Cellar and its neighboring venues, preparing to tape a standup special for HBO.
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An award-winning standup comedian, she performed multiple summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where her controversial alter ego, Sung Hee Park, became a favorite on the comedy circuit.
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New York has long been an epicenter of standup comedy; Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, and George Carlin got their starts here, and countless comic legends have followed.
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"When I heard the name over a year ago, I thought it was &aposBillie Irish&apos and it was a standup comedian from [Ireland]," George told Insider.
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" Michael Che, a writer and a performer on "Saturday Night Live" who also does standup, told me, "A black audience—we expect our performers to actually perform .
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The comedian, who's performed her standup act during a pair of USO tours, wrote to her more than 22019 million Twitter followers: I've done this exact tour.
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Pescatelli is talking directly to men in the audience during her standup, whereas Schumer's joke in Trainwreck is directed at her sister and her sister's dopey husband.
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C.K. was able to announce the project with a simple email to those who'd previously downloaded his standup specials from his website, seeding Horace and Pete's audience.
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In Maisel's seventh episode, for example, Midge has been doing well enough as a standup that she sells out the club in which she first melted down.
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And we did end up choosing a Jewish man to marry us: a standup comedian who has his own dog rescue and could not be more perfect.
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When Glover left 30 Rock after a couple of years to work on his standup, he stumbled upon the role of warmhearted jock Troy on NBC's Community.
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DC: I love that you were nervous about being stiff as an actor, so you chose ... "Well, I'll do standup comedy!" which is, you know ... Terrifying. Yeah.
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Hart's humor, likewise, was an extension of gay panic he'd evinced, and slurs he'd deployed, both in his standup and on social media, for a long time.
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Now, you could quibble that a series about standup comedians in '20s New York is pretty much custom-designed to win Emmys, and you wouldn't be wrong.
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Her standup is ferocious and unashamed, setting her apart from the many comedians who prefer to use self-deprecation as a way into their more risqué material.
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In the Instagram video, Hart insisted that he would not apologize, because he had previously addressed homophobic tweets and standup jokes that he made from 2009 through 2011.
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Black-clad Robbie Abalos, a 28-year-old Portland activist and standup comic, said he has no tight affiliations but came out to support the anti-fascist protesters.
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Bea has appeared onscreen in the TV show Hard Sun as well as Bullet to the Heart, The Fall and L.O.L. She's also an award-winning standup comedian.
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In the unsolicited, fill-based Netflix recommendation department: Besides being "Like a recent transplant," NEW IN TOWN is also the name of a funny John Mulaney standup special.
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Before this bouncing baby was a standup comedian and the voice of a big mouth character, he was just another bundle of joy growing up in Chicago, Illinois.
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I was "complimented," more than once for being a black person and not a nigger, as Chris Rock joked in his famous 1996 standup special Bring the Pain.
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Yeah. There's so much that I find romantic about that time, that I really yearn for and feel sad about in our generation now, not only with standup.
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People who knew him on the football field are defending him Vinson was a "standup guy" when he played football at Liberty University, teammate Austin Marsh told CNN.
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What set Comroe apart was that his standup focused on how he's lived life with Tourette Syndrome, which causes him to have facial twitches and to blink quickly.
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A fellow New Yorker, Dustin Gold was in attendance at both DeploraBalls dressed as Trump, though Friday's gala featured a ten minute standup set from him in character.
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She is next set to star in The Angry Birds Movie 2 as the evil villain Zeta Jones' standup special is scheduled to launch on Netflix in 2020.
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Though Ansari struck a somewhat contrite tone in his 2018 statement, some of his standup after the allegations came to light seemed to point to deep-seated anger.
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Ahead of the taping, Hart revealed he immediately agreed to be Noah's first guest when the new host asked, saying he s a big fan of his standup.
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The first time I saw Gadsby perform was a revelation: her unmasked anger at the heteronormative patriarchy made for the most relatable standup comedy I had ever seen.
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"We're thrilled he was able to take advantage of the Netflix experience in such a funny and innovative way," said Robbie Praw, Netflix's director of original standup programming.
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Katz coached former United Nations Ambassador Madeline Albright by bringing in a professional standup comedian and having her listen to his comedic cadences as he read the material.
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As a new standup at the time, she found it difficult to relate to colleagues at open-mic nights: They were mostly younger, mostly white and mostly men.
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There is so much talk in the culture about what standup comics should or should not do, about the lines they are or are not allowed to cross.
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Mr. Hart, 39, recently starred in two box office hits, "Night School" and "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," and is in the midst of an international standup tour.
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The standup portion kills, but everyone knows the better part will happen at the host's desk, where Johnny Carson, pulling on a cigarette, will gamely set him up.
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A Bronx native, Brillon started performing stand-up while still a teenager, and was a winner of StandUp NBC (formerly NBC's Stand Up for Diversity) competition in 91768.
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When you consider your role as a therapist who's carved out a niche for standup comedians, do you think that the mental health field should get more specialized?
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"When I worked at the Correspondents' Dinner and gave some jokes that were performed, I was just amazed at how good he [Obama] was at standup," Apatow recalled.
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Shortly after Morgan got into standup, in the late eighties, he began attending a workshop held on Wednesdays at the Uptown Comedy Club, on 21976rd Street, in Harlem.
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"When I heard the name over a year ago, I thought it was Billie Irish and it was a standup comedian from there," seat-filler Terry George said.
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Nikki Glaser and Gleb Savchenko She's played it for laughs in standup specials and the film "Trainwreck," but will Glaser bring a sense of physical comedy to "DWTS"?
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After working as a radio host in Birmingham following college and continuing to do standup, Wood received his big break on "Late Show With David Letterman" in 2006.
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As of last fall, the U.C.B. Four have a TV series again, "The U.C.B. Show," a half hour of sketch and standup, on Seeso, NBC's streaming comedy platform.
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In addition to Baskets, that career has included highly acclaimed standup work, the 1990s animated series Life With Louie (also an Emmy winner), and a gig hosting Family Feud.
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Click here to view original GIFAll images: Andrew Liszewski/GizmodoThere's an entire standup routine waiting to be written about how smart home accessories can be incredibly dumb and complicated.
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The 780-room luxury hotel is just steps away from Wailea Beach, where you can kayak, SCUBA and standup paddleboard your way through sparkling blue waters teeming with wildlife.
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She unpacks the tricks of the standup trade, reflecting on the ways in which artists and comedians often reinforce, rather than challenge, entrenched power structures and oppressive cultural narratives.
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This is what used to come to mind when I thought of Ali Wong: a very pregnant, very funny standup, someone who'd brought me close to tears from laughing.
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He changed his name, became vegan, started doing standup comedy, became a motivational speaker, grew a steady social media following, and started looking at a life beyond the ring.
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These #MeToo witch hunts clearly have gotten out of control when a man has to take ten months off from standup comedy after being disgraced for sexually assaulting women.
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In theory, his death is far less foreshadowed than Jon's, because Jon has done a standup job of pissing off vindictive members of the Night's Watch for several seasons.
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It didn't have any major hits during the last quarter of 2016, releasing titles like Iron Fist, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and a standup special from Dave Chappelle.
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In The Problem with Apu, Kondabolu melds his standup-like narrations of his investigation with social commentary from South Asian American actors, bystanders, and even EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg.
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"I just think she's such a brilliant actress and standup that it doesn't have to be this talk show for her creativity," de Rossi told The New York Times.
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Months after Hart, 39, stepped down from hosting the Oscars following an intense backlash over his past homophobic tweets and standup jokes, Handler came to her fellow comedian's defense.
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It's not Netflix's first foray into French-language original programming: there's already The Eddy, Osmosis, Marseille seasons 1 and 2, some standup comedy and more series in the pipeline.
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Comedy was second nature to Reynolds, who starred in farces, sang silly songs, did standup, did impressions, wore ridiculous wigs, made 'em laugh, made 'em laugh, made 'em laugh.
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The episode is titled "If you see this on the toilet seat, don't sit down," a reference to a famous standup bit in which Martin makes absurdist balloon animals.
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The joke's on YouTube What began as a podcast skit with Tanmay Bhat and Gursimran Khamba became AIB when Joshi and fellow standup comedian Ashish Shakya joined the group.
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From the earliest days of her standup career, this is how Barr has seen herself, so it's not hard to see how she would feel that connection to Trump.
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The first is the ability to see what's going on in the network's public rooms, and what's coming up — things like language sessions, standup comedy shows, and tabletop gaming.
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Bakassi, who is forty-eight years old, has been doing standup comedy for twenty-five years, and has become a household name throughout West Africa for his film roles.
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The series, which streams on Amazon, had the bad fortune to emerge when the TV schedule felt overstocked with "traumedies," of varying quality, many of them about standup comics.
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The comedian toured the country extensively as part of her standup career, and Jones asked her what she had observed about everyday Americans that she wished more people saw.
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Pietrzak is a standup comedian and performer who became famous in the nineteen-sixties as the founder of the Kabaret pod Egidą, a troupe that satirized the Communist regime.
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"It's a mental break from the annoyingness of show business," he said, adding that the fast-twitch muscle reactions crucial for table tennis can help on the standup stage.
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In 2009, on the "Late Show with David Letterman," the comedian Kumail Nanjiani walked onstage, wearing a boxy black suit and a cordless mike, to do a standup set.
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The proposal, Initiative 237, started as a long-shot campaign by an economist and standup comedian, Yoram Bauman, but it has gained public support and become a viable effort.
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Morgan's friend Marc Theobald, a frequent opener on Morgan's standup tours and another writer for "The Last O.G.," walked in, wearing a shiny gold blazer, a gift from Morgan.
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Only this time, the protagonist's object is not to save the world but to find a place in it: to stand up for herself by doing standup for herself.
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Some of "Standup for Drummers" operates as an entertaining history lesson, as when he plays a series of drum kits from different decades, describing how the instrument has changed.
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I think I come from an era of standup where your job is to make everyone laugh, not just a segment of people that are writers at Rolling Stone.
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Kevin James — the standup and actor known for The King of Queens and countless Adam Sandler movies — has a new YouTube channel and, you know what, it's pretty good!
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He likes to inhabit a place "where imagination meets reality," he said, but often it feels more like a place where off-strip Vegas meets past-sell-by standup.
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As a successful standup who has appeared on the Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel shows but who has been heckled with bigoted taunts during other performances, he knew the subject.
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His endearing grumpiness is on full display on his podcast, "WTF"; in his turn as a narcissistic, coke-addled director on "GLOW"; and especially in this new standup special.
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Morgan sat on a ratty-looking couch, cracking jokes and going over bits from his set with the comedian Jeff Stilson, a longtime standup with a friendly, weathered face.
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Ansari's standup has been marked by a light, controlled style, but here, he weaves personal material into a critique of the culture that reveals a new, deeply felt passion.
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He may not have performed on tour in nine years, but when Chris Rock returns to the standup comedy circuit in 2017, he will be back in his element.
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Tapping her own life for inspiration, this recently married comedian dishes out the harsh truths about wedding planning, bachelorette parties and honeymooning in her fifth standup special for Netflix.
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Directed by Todd Phillips (of Old School and The Hangover trilogy), Joker tells the story of an impoverished failed standup comedian, which sounds pretty chilling all on its own.
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So I wrote a script in collaboration with Laxness's grandson, Halldór Halldórson, a standup comedian and a very good poet, and Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson, the son of Laxness's publisher.
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She was forty-six, and had been a standup comedian for more than a quarter century; her peers respected her, but that respect rarely translated into high-paying gigs.
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To cast a social media narrative like a screenplay, reality TV show, memoir-like narrative, or series of jokes at a standup comedy show requires constant checking and posting.
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That's a huge part of standup, is dudes talking about their bodies, working through their body shame, and working through the ways they feel adequate and inadequate having sex.
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WATCH: Tracy Morgan Jokes About Hospital Stay, Speech Therapy In First Special Since His Major Car Accident Meanwhile, Jordan addresses the crash in his new Netflix standup special, Staying Alive.
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Loving TV and movies can mean quoting lines from John Mulaney's standup specials, or using PEN15 as a way to start a conversation with someone you trust about adolescent trauma.
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And even though this is accidentally true, your show is really well-positioned to talk about those things, being about an evangelical Christian working in the New York standup scene.
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When I started studying—not even studying, but finding these different people like Flight of the Conchords, Howard Kremer, Demetri Martin, these personalities who would take standup in different directions.
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Norton said Shaffir misjudged the country's grief, then told a story about the comedian pulling his dick out at the end of a taped standup performance for HBO in 2008.
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It marked a career high for the entertainer and a successful crossover into film after gaining notoriety as a standup comedian and the star of the Black sitcom, The Parkers.
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Comedian Kevin Hart had originally signed on to head the show for the first time before stepping down following an intense backlash over his past homophobic tweets and standup jokes.
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But as Tiffany Haddish showed on November 11, when a standup comedian gets the room to take the monologue and make it their own, it can become something truly special.
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Kasher, ever the comedian, pointed out that they could always have a kid for more material for their standup "I'm not having it for material," Leggero told Itzkoff in response.
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Ahead of the special, Refinery29 spoke to the four women involved in Out On Stage — Gloria Bigelow, Irene Tu, Janine Brito, and A.B. Cassidy — about the changing face of standup.
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She first gained fame as part of a standup comedy duo alongside future film director Mike Nichols, and became a cultural icon as well as a multifaceted performer and artist.
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I was getting sick of standup for some of the same reasons she outlines, but rather than make me want to quit, her special pulled me out of my funk.
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He began doing standup around the world and was booking great gigs, but traveling by plane was also hard on him because of the pain medication he was still taking.
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Sometimes my coworkers tell me that I should try standup comedy or pitch an original television pilot to a network known for its quality because my jokes are so funny.
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Trump turned the way Kasich ate a meal into standup comedy: "This guy takes a pancake, and he's shoving it in his mouth," Trump said at a stop in Pennsylvania.
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Robbie Praw, director of original standup comedy programming at Netflix, said Meyers had the "clever idea" and approached the streaming giant with the suggestion, which it was excited to try.
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"In my adult life, and especially in my standup career, I'd felt like the way my anxiety is interfacing with the Internet is very specific and strange," he went on.
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Likewise, this standup performance of a Nao robot named Data, accompanied by roboticist Heather Knight, evokes an uncanny valley sense of humor (Data's set begins at the three minute mark).
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With Louis C.K., he'll spend a year or two in purgatory, and then, as you say, come out with a standup special about his journey and how he's seen everything.
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In 2004, after the cancellation of "The Tracy Morgan Show," he went on the road to do standup, and the drinking worsened—twice, he almost slipped into a diabetic coma.
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"The Bedwetter," which is set to begin performances May 9, 2020, is Ms. Silverman's first theatrical foray, but she has frequently included songs in her standup act and television work.
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Phoenix is Arthur Fleck, a clown for hire and standup comedian who gradually becomes the character we're all too familiar with amid a backdrop of social unrest and income inequality.
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Performing in Spanish, Segura said, is a "real thrill of an experience" that brings him back to the excitement and panic of the first few years of his standup career.
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Richard came around whenever he was developing a new standup set; Paul Mooney, who wrote with him, and Jennifer Pryor, his wife, would sit in the back and take notes.
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Stilson was a writer on the "Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Chris Rock Show," and now writes for "The Last O.G." and helps generate standup material for Morgan.
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In the fall of 2009, when I was just starting to make a living as a standup, I had lunch with a fellow-comedian who recommended that I join Twitter.
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Apatow recalls meeting Trump in Atlantic City when he was a young comedian doing standup (which he has been doing again because he loves the immediate connection with an audience).
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Then there was the standup comedy night, where it turned out my date was performing, and I had to sit and listen as he made awkward jokes about his love life.
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On Friday, the 56-year-old standup comedian went naked on top, just sporting black skinny jeans and black Christian Louboutin heels while she posed with her back to the camera.
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Both Mulaney and Kroll have debuted solo standup specials on the platform in the past, and they're working together on the animated Netflix series Big Mouth, due out later this year.
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"Sending out love to the moms shaming me for doing standup last night!" she captioned the photo on Tuesday, which Schumer said was snapped by her sister-in-law Molly Fischer.
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"Sending out love to the moms shaming me for doing standup last night!" she captioned the photo, which saw the star sitting on a bed in underwear and a pumping bra.
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"Pamela, Part 1" features as its centerpiece a lengthy bit of standup from C.K. in which he talks about how casually the terrible behavior of men is coded into our culture.
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If you still need to world to know what you thought about that powerful new Hannah Gadsby standup special, on the other hand, that's what social media is for, I guess.
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And as a standup comic, I look at how it's evolved, and they say, 'oh, these new feminists are really cutting edge, because they're talking about sex, and this, and that.
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The title of this standup special draws its name from a story this comedian told on his talk show, "Late Night With Seth Meyers," about the birth of his second child.
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The path toward it began in Cosby's home 14 years ago, and wound its way through a civil settlement, a comedian's standup act, dozens of courageous women's testimonials, and a mistrial.
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The channel lets people laugh and turn their brains off for a while, whether at The Daily Show, Chappelle's Show, Upright Citizens Brigade, or one of seemingly thousands of standup specials.
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Much of the standup in "I'm Not a Comedian … I'm Lenny Bruce" is fairly familiar, and the show does not shed any new light on its subject's all-too-familiar demons.
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"Sending out love to the moms shaming me for doing standup last night!" she captioned the photo, which the Trainwreck actress said was snapped by her sister-in-law Molly Fischer.
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In other words, Gervais, joining many of his fellow comedians, blames cancel culture for destroying nuance in standup comedy, while also downplaying the reasons people find certain kinds of comedy offensive.
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All Def's standup show is usually held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, on Hollywood Boulevard, but Academy Awards-related street closures forced them to relocate to a Hollywood night club called Lure.
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Schumer was quick with a quip during her standup at Wednesday's party, but she also struck an occasionally serious tone to wish governor Cuomo a happy birthday and express her support.
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And while it is true he has shared some terrible views about women, racial identity and the trans community, the main subjects on his show are combat sports and standup comedy.
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Tomorrow marks the end of The Planet Is Burning tour, and we're gonna shoot it for a one-hour standup special... Can't wait to share The Planet is Burning with you.
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While late-night talk shows have cornered the market on bits about impeachment and the latest development in the presidential campaign, standup specials this year have moved in the opposite direction.
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Best known for his string of vintage comedy movies with his nightclub partner Dean Martin, Lewis was a hardworking standup comedian who graduated to radio and then movie stardom alongside Martin.
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But a bigger part was in awe that I was watching a male comedian say them, especially when so many others have used standup stages to play into countless sexist stereotypes.
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You probably won't learn how to be a standup simply from watching, just like Law & Order won't teach you how to solve crimes, but you might get closer than you'd ever imagine.
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And [if we get a season two], we know what I'll be doing from that time, and thankfully the jokes are funnier, but it's not just gonna jump to being great standup.
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"I was feeling ill in my stomach and was talking to an outer force, almost like a guide," says Kristy Belich, a 31-year-old standup comedian in the Washington, DC, area.
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Thankfully there's a growing body of TV shows, movies, and standup specials pushing past one-dimensional portraits of parenting to delve into its realistic, darker side, especially as it pertains to motherhood.
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Beppe may have started out as a deadly serious joke of a standup comedian, but he led his party since 2009 to more than 30 percent of popular vote at this writing.
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After her recent Saturday Night Live hosting gig, the hilarious Girls Trip star is revving up for two new movies, a TV show and headlining her own She Ready nationwide standup tour.
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The two have a strained history together — C.K. helped Notaro gain widespread recognition in the comedy community after tweeting about her standup and selling one of her set recordings on his website.
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Though Irresponsible marks Hart's first original standup special for the streaming service, he has released content on the platform before, including Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History, which came out in February.
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"When I was 16, I was on vacation in Greece, and this guy, kinda elbow-grabbed me, and said 'You're going to dance with me,' " Driver, 46, said on Sirius XM's StandUP!
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Newbies will learn everything they need to paddleboard like a pro with Dukite's competent instructors, and will have you feel like you're gliding on water in no time. http://www.dukite.com/standup-paddle/
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"We came on this idea of treating the show the way I treat standup, where it's like, I'll take a particular topic for each episode," he told Refinery29 back in November 2015.
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Hart has consistently refused to take back the $300 Haddish reportedly owed him from her time as a struggling, homeless standup comic, and Haddish thought she had finally gotten the upper hand.
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Changing channels … Like a garbage truck in reverse, or a daytime showing of a Chris Rock standup comedy special, the beeps are heard constantly — nine times in 30 seconds, to be precise.
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The Headlinertron, the creation of Florida-based comedian CJ Hernandez, is a Frankenstein-like Twitter bot that captures both the awkward incoherence and flashes of brilliance associated with open-mic standup comedy.
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McGregor has proved his standup skills are more than a match for anyone in the UFC, but crucially he's fighting in an area where boxing is just one part of the skillset.
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" Ms. Martel is an Argentine director best known on the festival circuit; Louis C.K., of course, is the American standup behind the television show "Louie" and the web series "Horace and Pete.
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Ventriloquism is basically a double act in which one person plays both straight man and funny man — a welcome throwback at a time when comic duos are gone from the standup scene.
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Ellie is meant to sound like a tough guy on the run from his emotions, but comes across, fatally, as a Pakistani doing bad American he-man standup, slinging a stilted slang.
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NextUp has already announced a partnership with London's Soho Theatre, one of the best-known performance spaces in the city, to bring standup sets from acts like Shappi Khorsandi to its platform.
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Maisel, about a woman (Rachel Brosnahan) embarking on a standup comedy career in the 1950s, doesn't start until December, so now is a very good time to watch the first two seasons.
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Workers hunched over computers elbow-to-elbow and held impromptu standup meetings while a prototype snack robot, resembling a trash can with a touchscreen, wheeled between desks delivering cans of Coca-Cola.
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I thought I was concise in writing standup comedy, but you realize that crossword clues are basically a one- or two-word setup/punch line if you want them to be entertaining.
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He started his career as a standup comedian, starred in the '20203s sitcom NewsRadio, and then worked as the host of the gross-out reality show Fear Factor from 2001 to 2006.
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Her standup career led to her 1990s comedy series "Ellen," during which she became the first lead actor in a sitcom to come out as gay, a watershed moment for LGBTQ+ visibility.
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Tiff Stevenson — a standup comic based in London — got the idea for the account in early January when she observed that one of Trump's tweets bore a similarity to Bridget Jones' Diary.
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The Republican front-runner is running as standup-in-chief this year, convulsing stadiums with his borscht-belt timing; meanwhile, Hillary gets dinged as humorless—and, when she does make jokes, unfunny.
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" Jimmy Dore, co-host of the Young Turks' "The Aggressive Progressives" web series, joked during a 2007 standup routine, "They're gay Republicans — they're people who are gay and, on purpose, are Republicans.
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What started as an experimental show in Brooklyn, blending Williams and Robinson's hosting with abbreviated standup sets from a wide variety of comedians, has quickly become something of a mini comedy empire.
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The idea was hatched by Harrison Forman, a former Facebook employee, and Brandon Berman, a standup comedian, who wanted to create a new type of entertainment for daters in the age of Instagram.
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Buteau has the splashier lines, leaning into the kind of confident self-deprecation (she refers to herself as a "fat, pregnant Meghan Markle") and side-eyes that Wong unleashes in her standup specials.
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Not that craziness is a complete stranger to Arthur's life, living as he does with his mother (Frances Conroy) in a dingy apartment, while harboring wince-inducing dreams of becoming a standup comedian.
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Belushi was riding the success of Animal House and Saturday Night Live, while Williams had finally emerged from the standup scene to score a breakout role on the Happy Days spinoff Mork & Mindy.
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"One, he's not going to like inhibit my art and my process, and I appreciate that," explained Silverman, who's renowned for her outrageously risqué, scatological, taboo-testing and frequently sexually charged standup routines.
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And in her new Freeform show, Alone Together, Povitsky is Esther, a standup comedian trying to make it in L.A. Povitsky co-created the show with her costar Benji Aflalo and Eben Russell.
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This charming mountain town has plenty of adventures including standup paddle board yoga in a 10,000 year old crater, bobsledding at the Utah Olympic Park, and hiking through its hundreds of mountain trails.
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Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in college, Spineto has completed a 100-mile standup paddling trip and sailed the Florida Keys solo, all the while proving that anything is possible, despite the disease.
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She staged a comeback in 2003, with her groundbreaking standup special Here and Now, her beloved role in Finding Nemo, and the premiere of her hit daytime talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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He followed that up with red light therapy in a standup booth, which is said to help blood circulation ... and a session in a hydro-derma fusion bed to help cleanse his pores.
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Following the accusations pointed at Louis C.K. by five women in the New York Times Thursday, Netflix has now dropped a planned standup special with the comedian that had yet to be produced.
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It's unclear what Zamata's reasons for leaving were, but given her great performances on SNL and in her standup, movies, and comedy videos, we're sure she has an exciting career ahead of her.
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Amy Schumer graced the platform with The Leather Special, Louis C.K. shared a special appropriately called 2017, and Dave Chappelle made his long-awaited return to standup with a self-titled three-parter.
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With "Don't Think Twice," I workshopped the script like the way I workshop my standup: I invited friends over to read it out loud in my living room and then fed them pizza.
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As Sasha, Wong presents as a bonafide movie star, and we can hope the attention on this film and her searing standup means we'll see her as many more characters in the future.
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During a trip to L.A. last year, I happened to catch the last-ever night of "The Meltdown," which featured standup by Apatow and a performance by a satirical pro-Trump reggae band.
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His campaign rallies often resembled a standup comedy tour, where he'd freely riff on the latest news and joke around with the crowd, reveling in his signature stream-of-consciousness style of rhetoric.
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They loved his jokes because he found really old jokes on the internet and then told them, and they loved them, and then I had to go up and do my actual standup.
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Maisel, a new comedy about a fast-talking gal (which sounds familiar) who ditches her dreams of achieving housewife perfection in 1950s New York City to pursue standup comedy (which sounds less so).
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You might know Jim Gaffigan from his much-loved, hugely successful standup comedy, beloved both for its ability to be family-friendly and still wildly funny and for his various paeans to food.
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That being said, I've been doing standup long enough and we've been writing long enough that when it's point of view–driven and personal, it can translate to a lot of different people.
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Mr. Hart, a 39-year-old comedy celebrity, recently starred in two box office smashes, "Night School" and "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," and is in the midst of an international standup tour.
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Mr. Praw said one of the many misconceptions he brought to Netflix was that there would be no overlap between fans of, say, Gabriel Iglesias's broad comedy and Maria Bamford's more cerebral standup.
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Mr. Abdul Kareem, a former standup comedian who grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., has been reporting from rebel-held areas in northern Syria, where he has filmed uncritical interviews with Qaeda members.
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We're living in a moment of upswing for funny TV, which includes a refreshing number of standup specials and sketch shows, like Netflix's excellent "I Think You Should Leave," a rare must-watch.
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From a Christmas movie that flips the script on gender to a standup special that explores both pop culture and cultural identity, here are our top picks for what to watch next month.
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Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time, and every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act.
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Take My Wife is a warm and funny new sitcom that follows the lives, hardships, and professional pitfalls of two standup comedians in Los Angeles, who also happen to be a lesbian couple.
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She's also a comedian who was hired to do not just a standup routine but a roast — and punchlines that take aim at anyone and everyone is what's always been on the roast menu.
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" — @knotclever1Doughnut Launcher"I used to work at a popular coffee chain and we had this supervisor who was an actor in all these local community-theater things and wanted to get into standup comedy.
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He's constantly writing material for his standup, writing scripts for another YouTube show, seeking out contacts in the professional wrestling industry, or anything else to help his new career—whatever that winds up being.
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His "Larry Sanders Show" and "It's Garry Shandling's Show" were two of the first meta-comedies to tickle audiences, and Shandling will long be remembered for his standup and late night talk show appearances.
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Dave Chapelle's recent standup specials for Netflix were his first in more than a decade, and this past winter, the company announced that it was working on a stand-up special from Ellen DeGeneres.
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AN AWARD-WINNING series, "The Marvellous Mrs Maisel", follows the fortunes of a woman in the 1003s who undergoes an unlikely transformation from a typical housewife of the day into a talented standup comedian.
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Normally I wouldn't involve him in a vacation, but I was staying with my friend Jamie Roux, who like me is a standup comedian and happens to be something of a political performance artist.
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Despite Hill's flagellatory self-recrimination ("Poetry is the art of the knout"), at times there's a sense that he's delivering his final testament as standup comedy ("my odes, largely made up of joking asides").
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But none of those were part of my introduction when I recently did standup at an alt comedy show in Silver Lake hosted by two guys who were playing characters as morning show hosts.
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Maybe these guys didn't realize that there's already such a bias when you do standup as a female, and that you have to work a little harder to get the crowd on your side.
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Bauman is, believe it or not, a "stand-up economist" — that is, a PhD economist who makes a living doing standup comedy about economics — likely the world's only, and thus almost certainly its best.
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He was going to do a standup set, and so he kicked off his 10-minute monologue with a little wink of self-awareness about the president's tendency to watch (and hate) the show.
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What keeps The Other Two from being a lame "Millennials be like this, but Gen Z be like this!" standup routine is the way it grounds these ideas both in character and in family.
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Being around for 15 years in New York, I've done standup shows with some incredible people and I've done improv with everybody and he's legitimately one of the best improvisers I've ever been around.
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From 2013 to 2017, while doing standup, he hosted a popular Video Podcast Network series, " Norm Macdonald Live ," on which he and a sidekick, Adam Eget, led actors and comics in meandering klatch sessions.
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The one positive thing that may come from this negative void we are facing [is that] people will become more politicized; this generation will find a voice for themselves, and standup to the hypocrisy.
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It's similar to my standup, in that if you looked at my set list, not only does it look like a grocery store list, but it would appear rather nondescript and not that compelling.
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Fisher had reprised the role of Leia — now a general — in the film, and she turned its promotional tour into a one-woman standup comedy act with some help from her French bulldog, Gary.
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Veteran queen Bianca Del Rio knew she had the crown the second she first sashayed into the workroom, especially because her standup comedy background made her unparalleled in the art of split-second dragging.
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It is a no-holds barred look at the life of a comedy icon, best known for his work on "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "The Larry Sanders Show," along with his standup work.
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The first season of "The Last O.G." had received good ratings and solid reviews, and he'd been doing standup with arguably more rigor and consistency than he had in the years before the crash.
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Holmes, playing a fictional version of himself, catches his wife in flagrante delicto; he spends the rest of the season sleeping on friends' couches, learning to do standup, losing his religion, and finding himself.
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Starring Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name is a biographical drama about Rudy Ray Moore, the filmmaker who portrayed the character of Dolemite (a pimp) in blaxploitation films and standup comedy during the 1970s.
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That was kind of the first time where I was like, 'He's a performer and he's taking the idea of standup comedy, and he's taking that wherever he wants to that he thinks is funny.
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His best work uses these crasser topics as a way of cushioning the more earnest ones he wants to address — after all, who'd have thought that a standup show would end with an in memoriam?
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Though it's usually wrapped in humor, whether talking about her weight, her first period, or her fear of flying, the comedian delivers unvarnished tidbits about her life in her standup and on her television show.
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"Sending out love to the moms shaming me for doing standup last night!" she addressed the critics on Instagram, captioning a post that featured her sitting in bed in her underwear wearing a pumping bra.
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Suburbicon is akin to watching someone do a standup set in front of a building that's on fire, trying to keep the viewer's attention with easy punchlines while a genuine menace blurs into the background.
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Though Davidson has temporarily paused his standup, Grande returned to work on Tuesday, performing "The Wizard and I" during the final taping of Wicked's 15th anniversary special, which will air on NBC later this month.
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" The two-time Emmy winner warns that while she doesn't turn her standup routine into "a lecture on the First Amendment," her show "definitely has a lefty, progressive slant because of what I've been through.
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Take the Tracy Jordan Hates Idiots two-parter from 30 Rock's sixth season, which saw Tracy Morgan's character going on a homophobic rant — like the actor reportedly did in real life during a standup set.
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While working at "GMA" in 1981 and dabbling in standup, she impressed Steve Allen during a phone call, and he invited her to perform on the "Steve Allen Comedy Hour," according to the New Yorker.
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The fundamental thesis of the work, that standup comedy is an inadequate tool to reflect the complexity of human life, that it turns people into trite objects instead of telling their whole story, is inaccurate.
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The most famous was the standup comedian Mort Sahl, who got his start in the San Francisco club scene and delivered jokes in a rapid-fire staccato frequently compared to the style of jazz musicians.
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As a standup comedian, when I go onstage I'm very honest about the fact that my feelings are easily hurt, that I care about being looked at, and that I'm putting it on the line.
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The bathroom is split into three parts — a standup rainfall shower with good pressure with amenities in refillable plastic containers against the wall, a separate toilet next door, and a long sink outside the two.
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Andy Cohen is taking Kathy Griffin's place alongside Anderson Cooper on CNN's New Year's Eve special, after the standup comic was booted from the gig earlier this year following her controversial anti-Trump photo shoot.
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Folks are not laughing this time, Trevor Noah South African comedian Trevor Noah is facing heavy criticism after video resurfaces of a 2013 standup routine in which he made a crude joke about Aboriginal women.
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Tom tells TMZ ... being a standup comedian and commenting on society is great, but after living in America for 20 years now, he wanted the opportunity to vote and take part in the democratic process.
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Returning after a six-episode tryout late last summer, this family sitcom starring the standup comic Jerrod Carmichael has a lot to say — about topics from guns to race to the downfall of Bill Cosby.
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In its first season, the Netflix comedy did a loose retelling of Bamford's real experiences as an actor and standup comedian, all while showing how much her mental health issues have informed her entire life.
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Suppose your team has eight developers: then a single twenty-minute daily standup occupies eight hours a day of developer-time … in other words, is equivalent to an entire person sitting around doing nothing, ever.
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For some, that means spending a lot more time in their existing home office, while others are setting up shop at their kitchen table, couch or even using an ironing board as a standup desk.
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Maduro denied playing any role, but when Chataing, who now lives in Miami and broadcasts online, took his show on a live tour, he helped radicalize a large segment of the fairly young standup scene.
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Rachel Brosnahan ("House of Cards") brings a witty and bitter energy to Midge Maisel, a 1950s housewife who finds her perfect life crumbling and accidentally becomes an standup comic one drunken night in Greenwich Village.
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Through his mid-twenties, Willems performed standup comedy, wrote for television, drew comics, rode a motorcycle through the streets of New York, rolled his own cigarettes, and had a girlfriend with whom he spoke French.
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I think by the time we got Dick Gregory, which was, you know, he was a very old man and he seemed curmudgeonly, at least to me, I didn't receive him as a standup person.
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Roy Wood Jr., a correspondent for "The Daily Show" and a hilarious standup, closed the show last night, by workshopping some new stuff, playing with a routine about the civil rights movement and peanut allergies.
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At the time his standup performance aired on TV, Glover had just released his proper début album, "Camp," a foray into the growing realm of music that is positioned between rap and jokes about rap.
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Here's a guide to the season's most promising live events, from Bette Midler's star turn in "Hello, Dolly!" to Chris Rock's first standup tour in nearly a decade to The Weeknd's new North American jaunt.
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Oliver opens his standup with a reference to Louis C.K., who tried to mitigate the Parkland joke in a later set by joking that it was a distraction from the sexual misconduct allegations against him.
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Late in her new standup comedy special Marriage Material, Cameron Esposito stares at her rapt Chicago audience, letting a smirk slowly unfurl on her face to uneasy giggles and a few frantic bursts of applause.
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But it turns out he had seen her Netflix standup special "Baby Cobra" and asked to meet her and director Nahnatchka Khan, creator of the ABC sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat," to talk about the project.
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She's still juggling projects and toying with the idea of another standup special, but when Notaro calls it's from the side of a pool in Mississippi, taking a well-deserved break with her wife and children.
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Here, though, they work at standup desks, wear jeans and enjoy the benefits of a Zen room, with pillows and tatami mats for meditation, as well as a game room with chessboards and a poker table.
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Appearing at a at Presidential rally with Trump, Farage told the Republican crowds exactly what he told the British before Brexit: "remember anything is possible if enough decent people are prepared to standup against the establishment".
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I had always known Jason was a standup man with a really solid character, but hearing from the guys who have known him the longest was reassuring and reminded me that my intuition was spot on.
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The new streaming series, about a vivacious 1950s housewife who becomes an accidental standup comedian following the end of her marriage, is a pure, utter delight — and star Rachel Brosnahan is much of the reason why.
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The actor has consistently thwarted her attempts to repay the $300 Haddish reportedly owed him from her time as a struggling, homeless standup comic, returning her money every time she tries to give it to him.
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On Wednesday, the Viacom-owned network announced its SVOD app BET Play, which will offer paying users direct mobile access to BET's signature award shows, television series, documentaries, standup comedy, entertainment news and legendary musical performances.
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SS, Alex Wiley, and jokes throughout the day from "Dicks Out For Harambe" creator and standup comedian Brandon Wardell, Vibes is keeping it hype as ever — and changing the rules of what day parties look like.
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Comedian Michael Richards -- most widely known as Kramer from "Seinfeld" -- went on a racially charged tirade during a 2006 standup set, using the N-word several times to describe a group of men in the audience.
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And look, I look the way I look and talk the way I talk, and when I started doing standup, it was right at the heyday of Def Comedy Jam and later the Kings of Comedy.
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The success of Hitler's Dog, MacDonald's first special since 2011's Me Doing Standup, is especially relieving given that the over-40 set of male comedians has not fared as well with their recent Netflix specials.
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It's understandable to be tired of TV and movies that dive into the ins and outs of the standup comedy scene; there are, after all, approximately a metric ton of them out there to choose from.
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"I chose to stop doing standup comedy and started driving an Uber so I could be there for my son as much as he needed after our life as we knew it was destroyed," Dunkleman tweeted.
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The 1970s and '80s were an especially fertile and defining period for standup, and Shore was a key gatekeeper, showcasing performers like Letterman, Jay Leno, Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, Richard Pryor, Garry Shandling, and Roseanne Barr.
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Richard Pryor's use of it in his standup act in the seventies was radical not simply because street lingo had made its way onto the stage: Pryor had swung open the door between alternate cultural dimensions.
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She was hired by The Laugh Factory because of the addiction and self-harm issues that have historically decimated the standup community, but she believes that everybody, funny or not, has their own mental health strain.
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We spoke to Eddie Murphy on his return to standup, looked at how the anti-vaccine movement took hold in the U.S., and visited with 18 families around the world as they prepared their weeknight dinners.
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"When he started doing standup, he would beg me to take him on the road with him, but I had to let him pay his dues first," explains Tony, who's out now on his Tony Rock Live!
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"Calling on our TX elected leaders to say 'NO MAS' and standup for our children!" the researcher, Dr. Peter Hotez, tweeted, imploring lawmakers do away with exemption laws that are leading to an increase in unvaccinated children.
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His standup is notable for pivoting between gently poking fun at himself (usually via his vast roster of self-directed fat jokes) and telling more emotionally risky stories about his life growing up with a large family.
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The standup comedian and former SNL star — whose 2014 car accident shocked Hollywood — has a line of reporters waiting for him, and when he returns they can hear his voice down the hall of this midtown hotel.
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The Silicon Valley actor and standup comedian penned an essay for The Hollywood Reporter about his fitful relationship with Ahmed, who became a household name with the HBO show The Night Of. It began with Four Lions.
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Meyers, best known for his prolific desk-sitting at Late Night and Saturday Night Live, dabbled in standup as part of the mixed career of comedy and acting that led him to SNL in the first place.
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Head out to the much-loved Acme Comedy Co. to catch an open mic night or standup show, or check out what's on at First Avenue & 7th Street Entry — a downtown danceteria that's been running since 1970.
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Bruzzese said there were plans to record the show "well before Netflix was on board" and credited Guesswork's Managing Director Kevin Whyte with pitching the show to Robbie Praw, Netflix's Vice President of Original Standup Comedy Programming.
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She might simply have been recognizing the fact that Haddish was the show's first Black woman standup comedian to ever host the show — maybe she just didn't want Swift's inclusion in the episode to overshadow that moment.
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"Do you guys know I'm really famous now?" the comedian joked while performing standup at upfront presentation for Comedy Central – home of her hit show Inside Amy Schumer – in New York on Thursday, according to USA Today.
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Added the source: "It's rare that you get an opportunity to feel the full spectrum of human emotion from a standup routine, but this was something different and I was lucky to be a part of it."
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Yes, the series delves into some dark places — after heroine Midge's marriage crumbles, her first forays into standup are more like "public breakdowns" than crafted comedy, her portrayer told Refinery29 last November — it never actually becomes dark.
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Richardson finely threads Reggie's trauma and new "don't give a fuck" attitude; Bell nails his comedic timing, not only as Troy tries actual standup comedy, but with a delightful, soul-searching drug trip in a later episode.
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And it transforms the campaign from a series of standup gunfights to a wave of hit-and-run ambushes, or bloody attritional battles in cities defended by friendly militias that you've invested time and money into training.
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But he stepped away from the stage in the early '80s in order to focus more on big screen roles — and though he told Seinfeld that quitting standup was never a formal decision, he hasn't looked back.
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This year, there's a new one from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino about a 173s housewife (House of Cards' Rachel Brosnahan) who gets involved in the Greenwich Village standup comedy scene, and it's worth your while.
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"When I started out as a standup, a lot of the other comedians would give me shit for being too verbose—actually, for being the kind of guy who would use a word like 'verbose,' " Martin said.
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" Meanwhile, the sequence in which Portnoy visits his shiksa girlfriend's house for Thanksgiving and meets her parents is an extended masterpiece of American standup: "How do you do, Alex?" to which of course I reply "Thank you.
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In this special, the "Saturday Night Live" alum steps out from behind his desk to address a live audience at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis, delivering more standup humor about the unanticipated chaos of being a parent.
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In a New Year's Eve standup set, Pete Davidson recalled a time when C.K. berated him for smoking weed and ratted him out in front of the producers of Saturday Night Live, including executive producer Lorne Michaels.
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Night Out Jermaine Fowler, the breakout star of the sitcom "Superior Donuts" and a longtime standup comedian, rolled up to the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village 30 minutes late on a recent Wednesday, blaming a Midtown snarl.
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For now, he's lost interest in standup as a means of channeling his "obsessions," and is absorbed with the idea of directing and eager to reach a point where he can finally make his first feature film.
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Like his earlier "Now I'm Fine," part of the festival four years ago, this latest offering was written by Oluo and his wife, the essayist Lindy West, and belongs to his signature genre: the standup jazz memoir.
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Get the eduCBA Project Management & Quality Management Bundle for $39, or 98% off See Details We've gotten so used to slickly produced entertainment like Transformers that people are now yearning for old-school things like standup comedy.
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Yet the way some TikTok users have attempted to circumvent this obstacle — by lip-syncing to scenes from film or TV, someone else's standup (or someone else's TikTok sketch), or worse, a viral tweet — is even cringier.
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