By Dylan P. Gadino | November 3, 2011 at 1:00 pm | 6 comments
If you didn’t know already, today’s episode of WTF finds Chris Rock as Marc Maron’s guest. While I highly recommend listening to the entire 80-minute show, I found the chat about Rock leaving Saturday Night Live to work on In Living Color (which only lasted a year for him)...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | November 2, 2011 at 12:24 am | One comment
Iconic comedian Chris Rock will be Thursday's guest on WTF With Marc Maron. As you can imagine, the pair of veteran comics cover a wide-range of topics. And to give you a taste, we're happy to give you this exclusive audio clip from their conversation. In it, Rock explains his...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | October 31, 2011 at 12:30 pm | 6 comments
Question: How fast would tickets to a Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle comedy tour sell out? We may soon find out if we’re to believe a recent tweet from Rock. In response to a short piece on Humor Mill, citing unnamed sources saying that the two comedians are currently working on...
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By Erik Gavilanes | October 5, 2011 at 3:24 pm | 2 comments
During last awards season, comedian Ricky Gervais delivered a Golden Globes hosting performance that was met with criticism for being “too mean.” In short, it didn’t sit well with the organization behind the awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Although the...
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By Carrie Andersen | June 13, 2011 at 12:07 pm | 3 comments
The most controversial figure in comedy this week has been, without a doubt, Tracy Morgan. The actor and comic is taking heavy flak for a rather anti-gay stand-up bit he performed last week in Nashville. While we love a good edgy joke, we’re certainly not fans of this kind of...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 16, 2011 at 10:45 am | No comments
Coming on the heels of the television premiere of his first-ever stand-up comedy special Mr. Showbiz this past weekend on Showtime, Nick Cannon goes wide with the digital release of the album version today (Buy here).
You'll be able to snag the album from New Wave Dynamics in...
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By Jeffrey Gurian | April 26, 2011 at 2:50 pm | No comments
Comic Strip Action
Chris Rock, who got his start at The Comic Strip, made his Broadway debut in a hard-hitting and fantastic new show with one of the strangest names ever to hit Broadway, The Motherf**ker With The Hat.
What's particularly funny to me as a comedy writer and...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | April 20, 2011 at 11:32 am | No comments
There was a lot of comedy thingies from yesterday that we couldn't get to posting-- or maybe there were things that didn't derserve its own post. So here are a bunch of links. You love links.
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 10, 2011 at 5:49 pm | No comments
Few journalists have logged more hours picking celebrity brains as six-time New York Times best-selling author Neil Strauss has. He’s hung with, and ultimately written about the likes of legendary rock band Motley Crue, pornstar-turned-mainstream success Jenna Jameson and...
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