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'Do I Think Comedians Are Better Now? Hell F*ckin' No'

Source: TV Squad, Dec 5 2012, 10:58am CST

"What we have now is black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down South, and so on with Asian, Latino, Indian, midgets, etc. The previous generation’s comics were better becau ...

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Seinfeld's Web Domain

Source: NBC Chicago  |   May 20 2013, 2:27pm CDT

The Webbys, to avoid the oppressive yada yada yada that can smother awards ceremonies, mercifully limit acceptance speeches to five words. So as Jerry Seinfeld gets ready to pick up his spring-like trophy Tuesday for Outstanding Comedic Perfor ...

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3 days ago

A Comedian for Life

Source: The New York Times  |   May 18 2013, 1:47am CDT

Julie Glassberg for The New York Times D. F. Sweedler at the Comic Strip. He has performed there since it opened in 1976. The wall of fame at the Comic Strip on the Upper East Side of Manhattan is lined with publicity shots of comedy legends like ...

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Stand-up comic Rebecca Kohler on comedians: ‘We’re the island of misfit toys’

Source: Globe and Mail  |   May 17 2013, 2:01pm CDT

On Thursday, Rebecca Kohler and Nile Séguin will each perform headlining sets at the LOT Stand-Up Comedy Club. We spoke to the Toronto-based Ms. Kohler about gender-based heckling, cut-throat competition and casino cat fights. You and Nile Séguin will ea ...

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3 days ago

"Seinfeld": Where are they now?

Source: CBS News  |   May 17 2013, 9:43am CDT

It has been 15 years since Jerry Seinfeld played a fictional comedian of the same name on one of the most-loved sitcoms of all time. The show, which ran from 1990-1998, chronicled the everyday lives of Seinfeld and his zany, self-absorbed group of ...

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6 days ago

Colin Quinn: The Constitution as stand-up comedy

Source: Berkshire Eagle Online  |   May 14 2013, 11:11pm CDT

NEW YORK -- There aren’t that many jokes in the U.S. Constitution and it’s never really been a big generator of belly laughs. Unless, that is, you are Colin Quinn. The Brooklyn-born Irish-American comedian kicks off his new one-man off-Broadway show by w ...

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6 days ago

Testing His Constitution

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   May 14 2013, 11:08pm CDT

By Leslie Josephs Pity the stand-up comic with too much material.Or, maybe not. Colin Quinn spent the winter trying to remedy this enviable problem at a small club attached to a burrito joint in Long Island City, where audiences were quorum enough for t ...

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Comic Relief Zero is everything you hate about stand-up

Source: Chicago Reader  |   May 14 2013, 2:22pm CDT

Like most work by the video collective Everything Is Terrible!, a new film zooms in on the nastiest bits of slime that gather at the bottom of humanity's media Dumpster. Comic Relief Zero is what people are thinking of when they say ...

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