Farewell, and all the POINTS! to @midnight with Chris Hardwick, grand comedian showcase masquerading as a game show

The ABC television network may make a major production out of reviving all of our favorite game shows from the 1970s in primetime this summer. But nobody, not even the revived edition of Match Game (sorry, Alec Baldwin), has recaptured the great giddy aesthetic of Match Game like @midnight with Chris Hardwick, which ends a […]

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The National Comedy Center is hosting a week of panels on “Comedy and the Human Condition” in partnership with the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival

Now more than ever, comedy is getting serious — from the late night circuit’s coverage of our increasingly alarming political climate, to… MORE

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We need to talk about black women in comedy: VH1’s “All Jokes Aside”

If you think it’s still tough out there in the comedy trenches for a woman wanting to make it as a stand-up, then just imagine what it must be like for a black women. Heck, don’t imagine it. Go out and talk to some black women in comedy. That’s what the new short documentary, All […]

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We need to talk about black women in comedy: VH1’s “All Jokes Aside”

If you think it’s still tough out there in the comedy trenches for a woman wanting to make it as a stand-up, then just imagine what it must be like for a black women. Heck, don’t imagine it. Go out and talk to some black women in comedy. That’s what the new short documentary, All […]

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