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Comedy Central to laugh it up with a 3-day festival in June
KIRO Seattle And San Francisco is an ideal location for comedy lovers, he added, with its longstanding creative counter-culture and a comic legacy extending from such pioneers as Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce through Robin Williams and current standups like Ali Wong. Jerry Seinfeld, Ice Cube, and Hannibal Buress lead Comedy Central's inaugural Colossal Clusterfest New comedy 'Clusterfest' comes to San Francisco in June – SFGate Comedy Central Presents Colossal Clusterfest – Official Lineup Announcement Video |
YouTube’s Edgy Jokes Are Part Of A Bigger Debate In The Comedy World – Kotaku
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YouTube's Edgy Jokes Are Part Of A Bigger Debate In The Comedy World
Kotaku Lenny Bruce was arrested for violating obscenity laws in the state of California for saying the word, “cocksucker,” during a set in 1961, and would continue to have legal troubles until 1964. He eventually died while appealing his conviction. While … |
Lenny Bruce: come parlare sporco e influenzare le persone – Il Sole 24 Ore
Lenny Bruce: come parlare sporco e influenzare le persone
Il Sole 24 Ore Lenny Bruce, pioniere della comicità americana, è considerato uno dei simboli delle battaglie per la libertà di parola negli Stati Uniti. Grazie a lui nasce la figura dello stand up comedian, il monologhista satirico che è diventato un genere di … |
TV Guy: CNN presents ‘The History of Comedy’ – recordonline.com – Times Herald-Record
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TV Guy: CNN presents 'The History of Comedy' – recordonline.com
Times Herald-Record Even the title "The History of Comedy" (10 p.m., CNN) sounds a bit absurd.How do you cover a subject so broad in eight episodes? And how do you define … The producers of CNN's latest deep-dive series, 'History of Comedy,' on censorship, sexism & more No joke: 6 times comedy changed the way we live CNN's 'History of Comedy' is a laughing, learning matter |
No joke: 6 times comedy changed the way we live – CNN
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No joke: 6 times comedy changed the way we live
CNN What happened: When Bruce came along in the 1950s, he stunned audiences with his unfiltered routines about drugs, race and religion. His material outraged the era's moral crusaders, who banned Bruce from several cities and tried to shut down his act. CNN's 'History of Comedy' a laughing, learning matter CNN's new docuseries, 'The History of Comedy' from Sean Hayes, arrives right on time CNN's 'The History of Comedy' is Most Essential When It's No Laughing Matter |
Comedian Irwin Corey, ‘The World’s Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102 – PEOPLE.com
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Comedian Irwin Corey, 'The World's Foremost Authority,' Dies at 102
PEOPLE.com Irwin Corey, who Lenny Bruce once called “one of the most brilliant comedians of all time,” has died at 102. A classic “comedian's comedian,” Corey died on Monday at his home in Manhattan, NY his son Richard confirmed to NPR. Billed as “the world's … The World's Foremost Authority Has Died: Prof. Irwin Corey Was 102 Famously Eccentric Comedian Irwin Corey Dies At 102 Irwin Corey, Comedian and 'World's Foremost Authority,' Dies at 102 |
Lily Tomlin on Donald Trump: “You’ve Got to Hold the Feet to the Fire” – Hollywood Reporter
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Lily Tomlin on Donald Trump: "You've Got to Hold the Feet to the Fire"
Hollywood Reporter There would be two camps: people horrified if I were totally like Lenny Bruce [in pushing boundaries], contextually in terms of the society at that moment, and people who would've been thrilled that I was more like Lenny Bruce, or whatever they thought … |
Jan. 26-27: Jim Marshall’s 1967, Mona, Sick Comic: Life of Lenny Bruce, Uncanny Valley, Susan Sherman, Strike a … – San Francisco Examiner
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Jan. 26-27: Jim Marshall's 1967, Mona, Sick Comic: Life of Lenny Bruce, Uncanny Valley, Susan Sherman, Strike a …
San Francisco Examiner Sick Comic-The Life of Lenny Bruce: Writer-performer Jason Kyle appears in the free show,an adaptation of Julian Barry's epic play about the boundary-breaking comedian. [7 p.m., Shelton Theater, 533 Sutter St., S.F.]. Mona: The alt-rock band, which … |
LA Art Icons Remember Tina Turner, Lenny Bruce and Warhol’s Cans – Hollywood Reporter
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LA Art Icons Remember Tina Turner, Lenny Bruce and Warhol's Cans
Hollywood Reporter 'Cool School' alumni Ed Ruscha, Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston and Larry Bell gather to recall the city's art scene in the early 1960s. It was mainly “Cool School” reminiscences of the Ferus days when founding fathers of the L.A. art scene Larry Bell … |
What’s So Funny About Jewish Humor? – The New York Times – New York Times
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What's So Funny About Jewish Humor? – The New York Times
New York Times The first part of Michael Krasny's subtitle is hard to argue with: “Let There Be Laughter” is indeed a treasury of great Jewish humor. The second part is debatable. |