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Did Jerry Seinfeld miss an opportunity with Michael Richards on Web series?

Did Jerry Seinfeld miss an opportunity with Michael Richards on Web series?

By | October 17, 2012 at 12:09 pm | 8 comments

Michael Richards said some really bad things in a comedy club seven years ago. Why can’t people let it go? We live in a time where celebrity is currency. More and more, people are over-reacting to things said in comedy clubs so that they can blog about it in a grab for their...

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Watch Jerry Seinfeld riding in cars with Larry David, Alec Baldwin, Ricky Gervais and more

Watch Jerry Seinfeld riding in cars with Larry David, Alec Baldwin, Ricky Gervais and more

By | July 5, 2012 at 2:18 pm | One comment

Jerry Seinfeld has a new show coming soon through Crackle.com called Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Here's what we know: It features Seinfeld, and some comedians, in a car getting coffee. And presumably having a good chat. Here's a one-minute teaser for the show, featuring a...

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Are we too easily offended by crass jokes?

By | July 22, 2009 at 1:48 pm | No comments

A few weeks ago Larry Muhammed, a Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) writer got in touch with me to see if I would answer a few questions about comedy, more specifically if people just couldn't take a crass joke these days. The final article took a slightly different turn,...

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Doug Williams: Standing up for comedy

By | July 23, 2008 at 9:07 am | 7 comments

With the success of the third season of Starz' First Amendment Stand-up, produced by Martin Lawrence, show host and veteran comedian Doug Williams is on the verge of a career breakthrough. For the past eight years, the country has been steeped in military quagmires, a flailing...

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