The first person we see on tonight's TBS special, Team Coco Presents The Conan Writers Live, is a writer of the online variety as Team Coco's blogger Aaron Bleyaert visits the dressing room ...
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In her fourth variety special for TBS, and second filmed from the Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival, Ellen DeGeneres welcomes back Nick Cannon as her DJ, and also showcases the quick-change arti...
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I also had the chance at Just For Laughs Chicago to talk to David Wain, who along with Rob Corddry and Jonathan Stern is the third executive producer, and sometimes writer and director of Childrens�...
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At the Just For Laughs Chicago festival last week, Rob Corddry showed up with his fellow Childrens' Hospital producers David Wain and Jonathan Stern and co-stars Erinn Hayes and Lake Bell to offe...
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Jamie Kaler and Mo Mandel | Photo by Heather M. SchollrnThe new hot spot for comedy in Chicago, Red Bar Comedy Club, was home to the “LOL Lounge” Friday and Saturday nights. The sultry n...
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Friday night’s JFL activities were nearly threatened out of oblivion when a storm of Apocalyptic proportions doused the city in near-flash flooding and 70 MPH winds that evening. The comedy show must go on, however, and all events went along as planned.
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'Neither comic is shy about being unconventional, and both seem disturbingly comfortable with pauses, even long silences, in their acts. And they both bring their A game to every show, even though they perform multiple times a week.'
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If you tune in tonight to TBS for Cedric The Entertainer's Urban Circus, then you'll probably wonder what in the world is going on when Cedric is shooing kids away from a picnic table, only to turn around and find Jerry Seinfeld amble onstage.
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Schadenfreude quips with Chicago furniture tycoon Tim Smithe | Photo by Erin NekervisrnAfter what became an extremely late Wednesday night, things were feeling a little sluggish for Day Three of the...
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With more than seventeen venues over five days boasting one hundred performers, TBS Presents a “Very Funny” Festival: Just for Laughs was a veritable comedy whirlwind across the city of Chicago last week. Due to the sheer impossibility of hitting everything (or even close to everything), I decided to focus on the local stand-up showcases and see Chicago performers within the visiting energy of the festival.
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