Archive for April 13th, 2008

Comedians get serious in fundraising for autism
USA Today - Apr 13, 2008
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY NEW YORK — Superstar comedians joined forces Sunday night for a cause that was anything but funny. Adam Sandler, Tina Fey,

Funny folk's exit is no laughing matter
The Press, New Zealand - 1 hour ago
Group member Rikki Cosgrove said the fact there were few comedy nights in Christchurch and other South Island cities meant comedians would travel elsewhere.

A Professor With a Ph.D. in Nonsense
New York Times, United States - 1 hour ago
Playboy Club, elegantly carrying his tattered tailcoat on a hanger in a clear plastic dry-cleaning bag. “He’s one of the great trailblazers in comedy,”

Improv festival sets the tone for the reinvention of comedy
Daily Trojan Online, CA - 1 hour ago
Groups from all over the country will arrive to refine their improvisational comedy, or improv, skills, alongside professionals and members of the on-campus

Comedy Central - Nascar

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Comedy Central
Nascar - 2 hours ago
A Night of Too Many Stars is on Comedy Central and it is hillarious! Not for the kids so much though …Tina Faye just had the President of White Castle

'Loser' set to be a comedy festival champion (+video)
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 4 hours ago
The high school reunion has long been good fodder for books and movies and Thomas Sainsbury's Loser, at the NZ International Comedy Festival from Wednesday,


Southwark News
CLIMATE CHANGE, JAZZ AND COMEDY ON THE CARDS FOR DULWICH FESTIVAL
Southwark News, UK - 5 hours ago
By Alex Aldridge HUMAN-RIGHTS activist Peter Tatchell will be speaking at this year's Dulwich Festival, organisers have revealed. Tatchell, who is perhaps

MGM acquires Wexler's comedy spec script
Box Office Prophets - 5 hours ago
MGM's picked up its first comedy spec under new chairman Mary Parent: Bobism, written by Ben Wexler (CBS's Still Standing). The story is about a shy college
SPEC SCRIPTS 'BOBISM' AND 'BATTLE: LOS ANGELES' SELL TO HOLLYWOOD iFMagazine
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Friedman mines new lode of ‘Old Jewish Comedians
Fort Worth Business Press, TX - 6 hours ago
Drew found an ideal groove a couple of years ago with a handsome book called Old Jewish Comedians: A Visual Encyclopedia, its bright-eyed cover painting of

Survivor from a happier time - Telegraph.co.uk

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Telegraph.co.uk
Survivor from a happier time
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Apr 13, 2008
A throwback to a more innocent age of entertainment when comedians radiated Falstaffian good cheer and didn't swear (or at least nowhere near an audience),