By Punchline Magazine | December 15, 2010 at 7:47 pm | One comment
As we reported earlier this week, there will be an all-star comedy show at the Beacon Theater in New York on Feb. 9 to benefit the family of Greg Giraldo. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Saturday. However, we just confirmed that there will be a presale beginning...
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By Billy Procida | November 10, 2010 at 3:09 pm | No comments
Family, friends, and supporters came together Monday night at Carolines on Broadway in New York City for comedian Bob Saget's annual scleroderma fundraiser. And just moments ago, Saget tweeted that the event raised nearly $700,000.
The Scleroderma Research Foundation...
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By Billy Procida | October 19, 2010 at 5:40 pm | No comments
Vote for Quinn!
Er...or at east go see his hilarious one-man show! We previously reported on Colin Quinn's Long Story Short moving from off-Broadway to the Helen Hayes theater on Oct. 22nd. And now we're reminding you, but only because there's this swell video to promote said...
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By Billy Procida | October 13, 2010 at 1:18 pm | No comments
[caption id="attachment_15514" align="aligncenter" width="461" caption="Colin Quinn and Jerry Seinfeld at the Snapple Theater Center, Fantasticks Stage yesterday. photo by Charles Sykes"][/caption]
"We got kicked out [of 45 Bleeker] because they wanted to do 'Deep Throat'!" ...
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By Punchline Magazine | September 21, 2010 at 4:09 pm | No comments
After an incredibly successful run off-Broadway, Colin Quinn's one-man show, Colin Quinn: Long Story Short is heading to Broadway-- where all one-man shows want to go.
The Associated Press reports that the show, which ran this summer at the Bleecker Street Theater, will make...
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By Jeffrey Gurian | September 17, 2010 at 12:02 pm | No comments
Long Story Short Not Long Enough
Lest my headline be misleading, Long Story Short would be too short no matter how long it was. I LOVE Colin Quinn. Not in a Biblical way, but in the way you love someone who embodies the kind of talent you would aspire to have if you...
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By Punchline Magazine | August 26, 2010 at 10:57 am | No comments
Last night on America’s Got Talent, Jimmy Fallon made a special appearance to help promote his Emmys hosting gig going down Sunday at 8 pm EST on NBC.
Now, for you haters out there thinking, “What’s Fallon doing on a talent show? He hasn’t got any talent.” Well,...
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By Punchline Magazine | July 21, 2010 at 12:03 pm | No comments
George Shapiro.
You may not know him by name but you his work and you know the amazing comedy careers he's helped create. Danny DeVito portrayed him -- Shapiro was Andy Kaufman's real-life manager -- in the now classic biopic Man on the Moon. Shapiro executive produced...
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By Becca Scheuer | June 23, 2010 at 1:07 pm | One comment
Jerry Seinfeld has a bone to pick with the musical visionary responsible for bringing us "Alejandro." At a recent Mets game, Gaga got annoyed that she was in a seat where people could take pictures of her. Her logical reaction to the "invasion" of privacy was to strip and then...
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