Keyword: comedy
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A comedy club in Seattle has canceled four comedians after the venue decided their acts did 'not align with the neighborhood's progressive values.' It might seem like a bad joke, but the Capitol Hill Comedy Bar, known for promoting the voices of the queer community, had booked comics Jim Florentine, Dave Smith, Luis Gomez and Kurt Metzger for some upcoming shows before scrapping them. But Florentine, known for his edgy and outspoken style, is among the foursome whose shows were scrapped. He is now predicting the club will ultimately close down following the decision. 'We got this email saying, listen,...
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Richard Lewis, one of America’s most beloved and revered stand-up comics who also played a fictionalized version of himself on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, died last night at his home in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack. He was 76. His death was confirmed by his publicist Jeff Abraham. Lewis had been living with Parkinson’s disease, a diagnosis he revealed in April, 2023. “His wife, Joyce Lapinsky, thanks everyone for all the love, friendship and support and asks for privacy at this time,” Abraham said. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.
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Richard Lewis, the darkly funny, perennially black-clad comedian and actor known for playing a semi-fictionalized version of himself on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” died Feb. 27 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 76. His publicist, Jeff Abraham, said Mr. Lewis died after a heart attack. Mr. Lewis announced in April that he was retiring from stand-up comedy after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease about two years earlier and dealing with four surgeries for his back, shoulder and hip.
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San Francisco's supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated by the city, a long-awaited first step as it considers providing reparations. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the resolution apologizing to African Americans and their descendants. All 11 members have signed on as sponsors, guaranteeing its passage. It would be one of the first major U.S. cities to do so. The resolution calls on San Francisco to not repeat the harmful policies and practices, and to commit “to making substantial ongoing, systemic, and...
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This needs no description and I don't think any description would do it justice.
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Released on this date in 1974.
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Wilson portrayed many characters on his show and wasn’t afraid to laugh at himself while making his audiences laugh. One of his best-known characters was Geraldine Jones. Geraldine was one of the most recurring characters Wilson portrayed. She was a sassy, outspoken, liberated, black woman. She wore her clothes tight and revealing and flirted with the men but never failed to be anything but faithful to her (never seen) boyfriend, Killer. Geraldine wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed but that didn’t keep her from being overly confident. She was a “what you see, is what you get” kind...
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A sculptor has expressed renewed hope for a large-scale memorial to Benny Hill, on the centenary of the comedian's birth. The Benny Hill Show ran on BBC and ITV from 1955 to 1989, making the Southampton-born star a household name. Barnsley sculptor Graham Ibbeson was commissioned to make a fibreglass mould of the late comedian in 2004, but it has remained in storage ever since. He said a public statue would be a fitting tribute to Hill's talent. Mr Ibbeson said: "He was a comic genius. His stage was everybody's living room.
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The title of this 2:29 video looks like clickbait. But trust me, it’s not. I’m not the biggest fan of Chappelle, but this is good stuff. And very topical.
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Dave Chappelle did exactly what he said he wouldn’t do in his new Netflix special: make fun of trans people. Although his seventh special for Netflix, titled “The Dreamer,” begins with a fairly nostalgic look at his rise to fame, he turned course by telling a story about his visit to the set of “Man on the Moon” to meet Jim Carrey, one of his comedy idols. I wanted to meet Jim Carrey [who was method acting], but I had to pretend this n—a was Andy Kaufman. All afternoon,” he recalled during his show, which began streaming Sunday. “I could...
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Russia is heading towards victory in Ukraine with the initiative unequivocally transferring to Moscow, one of Britain’s most senior former officers has told The National. In a wide-ranging interview, Gen Sir Richard Barrons argued that Ukraine’s military “has got nothing left in the locker right now” after its gruelling summer counter-offensive. “The initiative in this war is unequivocally transferring to Russia and that is not the situation we expected at the start of this year but it’s an honest appraisal of where we are,” said Gen Barrons. “That's a combination of the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive to deliver even...
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Democrats have three paths to victory next November, all being eagerly embraced by Republicans.PLAN A: Enrage Republicans by bringing a string of ludicrous indictments, civil suits and ballot disqualifications against Donald Trump, thus tricking the GOP into making him the nominee.RESULT: Joe Biden easily wins a second term. If Trump behaves as we know he will, Biden wins even if he's dead.Wait, but why would Republicans make Trump the nominee just because -- OH MY GOSH, IT'S WORKING!!!When Trump declared his presidential run on Nov. 15, 2022, he was dead in the water. November, December, January, February -- polls all...
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Animal House The National Lampoon masterpiece continues to set the bar for cinematic depictions of collegiate debauchery. See John Belushi in one of his greatest roles as a fraternity brother at the riotous Delta house, as the brothers fight a college dean who wants to see their charter revoked and their house disbanded.
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Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak, Fred Astaire comedy mystery film
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The American people deserve to know the truthPresident Joe Biden, 80, is excruciatingly old and infirm. In addition to using the short stairs to get on and off Air Force One, he's also been working with a physical therapist to improve his balance after suffering a series of humiliating falls in public. Axios reports that "Democrats, including some in the administration, are terrified that Biden will have a bad fall—with a nightmare scenario of it happening in the weeks before the November 2024 election." The Washington Free Beacon wanted to learn more about Biden's anti-fall exercise routine and to share...
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The excitement begins when three friends go on a trip together and receive a letter from the fourth member who stayed at home. In it she announces that she will run away with the husband of one of the three. But with which one? In episodic flashbacks, the three now review their marriages. Starring three Hollywood goddesses of their time: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell and AnnSothernThe young Kirk Douglas can be seen in one of his first roles as Sothern's husband.
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This is one of the greatest movies ever made. There isn't a single bad part in the entire thing. The actors were absolutely fantastic, as was the directing Cast: Raymond Massey, Cary Grant, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Priscilla Lane.
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From season 9, episode 15. Features Michael McDonald and Nicole Parker. "Chicago News Murders" (MADtv skit from 2004 - everyone gets murdered in Chicago...)
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When a dying ex-con drops a clue as to where he buried $350,000 in stolen cash, the five people who witness his death make a mad race for the money. Starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jimmy Durante
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