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Posted Wednesday 10/09/19 at 11:05PM EDT
Ali Wong had no idea Shane Gillis' referenced her on his podcast -- she offers her take on offensive comedy
Wong heard about Gillis' racial slur controversy that got him kicked off SNL, but she had no idea that he...
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Posted Wednesday 10/09/19 at 4:31AM EDT
Marc Maron slams claim that "woke culture" is killing comedy
Maron, who appears in Todd Phillips' Joker, responded to the director's claim that "woke culture" is killing comedy.
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Posted Tuesday 10/08/19 at 5:56PM EDT
The Daily Show's Michael Kosta to star in his first hour-long Comedy Central special
Kosta will film his special in November to air in summer 2020.
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Posted Monday 10/07/19 at 12:51PM EDT
Jenny Slate's first Netflix special reveals its first trailer
Jenny Slate: Stage Fright, dropping Oct.
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Posted Saturday 10/05/19 at 9:42AM EDT
Comedians have been essentially complaining about cancel culture since the 1980s and 1990s
"People fretted over political correctness back then, too, you know," Drew Magary says of the recent trend of comedians complaining...
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Posted Saturday 10/05/19 at 9:42AM EDT
None of Greg Gulman's HBO special The Great Depresh should be funny, but it really, really is
Gulman recounts his battles with depression in his very personal special, premiering Saturday.
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Posted Thursday 10/03/19 at 4:21PM EDT
Roseanne Barr quits standup comedy, claiming TV executives threatened her residuals
Barr said on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that unnamed network executives warned her not to say anything offensive or...
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Posted Thursday 10/03/19 at 5:55AM EDT
Nikki Glaser: Bangin’ more than lives up to its title
The comedian's new Netflix standup special "surely ranks among the most literal titles for a standup show ever," says John...
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Posted Saturday 9/28/19 at 7:16AM EDT
Bill Burr's own career is the perfect counterargument to his "cancel culture" tirade
Burr stuck up for Shane Gillis after his SNL firing, saying on Lights Out with David Spade last week: "None...
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Eddie Murphy confirms Netflix standup special, says he plans to reprise his iconic characters on SNL
“I have to do Buckwheat,” Murphy says in a New York Times profile of going back to standup and his...
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Posted Tuesday 9/24/19 at 3:21AM EDT
Comedians complaining about "cancel culture" have become the "the tiresome cowards they accuse their critics of being"
"As far as comedy is concerned, 'cancel culture' seems to be the name mediocrities and legends on their way to...
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Posted Friday 9/20/19 at 4:56AM EDT
In defense of Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr's new comedy specials: "The risk of offensiveness has to be there"
Chappelle's much-criticized Netflix special Sticks & Stones "is using comedy to ask difficult questions about the intersections of race and...
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Posted Thursday 9/19/19 at 6:11PM EDT
Shane Gillis jokes about a "funny" Trump assassination in his first standup following his SNL firing
"I don't want you to think I'm too pro-Trump," Gillis said while performing at the Stand in New York City...
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Posted Thursday 9/19/19 at 1:36PM EDT
Nikki Glaser to star in her first Netflix comedy special
Fresh off the Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin, the comedian will premiere Nikki Glaser: Bangin' on Oct.
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Posted Tuesday 9/17/19 at 10:22PM EDT
Seinfeld actor Danny Woodburn: Bill Burr "punches down" with his Netflix special jokes about disabled actors
Woodburn, who played Kramer's little person friend Mickey Abbott on Seinfeld, responded in detail in a Hollywood Reporter essay to...