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Comedian Jon Reep wants to be more than a familiar face in Lexington

Edit Lexington Herald-Leader 07 Jul 2016
This is typical behavior for Reep, a self-described class clown who first got into stand-up comedy performing at open-mic nights while attending college at North Carolina State University in Raleigh in the 1990s ... Now, he said, he wouldn’t mind becoming more of a Southern Brian Regan, mixing ......

Shoaib Akhtar paid to judge comedy show

Edit Deccan Chronicle 07 Jul 2016
Former Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar says there cannot be a better job than being paid to enjoy jokes on a television show. Shoaib will soon be seen judging comedy show "Indian Mazak League" ... I will be paid to enjoy the jokes ... As for the movies, I enjoyed 'Andaz Apna Apna', 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron' and all Amitabh Bachchan movies which had comedy or fun angle in it," he said....

Why 'Angie Tribeca' Is the Absurdist Cult TV Comedy We Need

Edit Rollingstone 07 Jul 2016
Dying is easy, showbiz scripture dictates, and comedy is hard ... The 40 Best Cult TV Comedies Ever ». What's funny is such rapid speed-joking is pretty much typical for this daffy TBS cop comedy produced by Steve and Nancy Carell, where sanity usually plays second fiddle to a ridiculous sight gag or cutaway goof ... "You have to act very subtly, up until and through when something absurd happens....

Absolutely Fabulous: Two grandmas thrown out of movie screening for 'laughing too loudly'

Edit The Independent 07 Jul 2016
Patsy and Eddie are just too damn funny, darling ... Cindy Amass and Jacqueline Cox claim they were asked to leave a 6pm screening of the comedy at London’s Vue Islington after staff’s request that they “laugh on the inside” was not adhered to....

Not one scene in ‘Mike and Dave’ is funny: All of them are

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 07 Jul 2016
In “Me and Dave Need Wedding Dates,” every character is comically skewed, opening up lots of possibilities for funny situations ... generation aren’t funny to the next, the mechanical ingredients of comedy — self-delusion, deception, setups and reversals — stay pretty much the same....

Andrew Lawrence

Edit Skiddle 07 Jul 2016
His sixth UK tour in consecutive years, an evening of honest, fearless and uncompromising stand-up ... ‘SPEAKING your mind used to be the norm for stand-up comedians, it was part of the attraction of the job and along with the desire to make people laugh, claims Lawrence, it’s why he got into the business in the first place ... ‘Dark comedy at its very best.’ ★★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News....

the best in live stand-up comedy

Edit Skiddle 07 Jul 2016
The Best In Live Stand-up Comedy - 4 brilliant comics from the top of the UK & International comedy circuit ... the best in live stand-up comedy on Fri 8th July 2016 ... comedy circuit....

Brief Encounters is warm and joyful – but no-one in Sheffield calls it "dinner"

Edit New Statesman 07 Jul 2016
Forces of Nature With Brian Cox reviewed ... I can pinpoint the exact moment when I fell, somewhat embarrassingly, for Brief Encounters (Mondays, 9pm), ITV’s new comedy drama about naughty knicker parties in the early Eighties ... “Brian can get through three shirts in a day,” she announced, coat hangers in hand ... But my heart is simply not up to the job of resisting it ... As I watched, I felt kind of funny....

This wedding is a sloppy good time

Edit The Miami Herald 07 Jul 2016
Within the first five minutes of the movie, Mike and Dave’s dad prophetically remarks, “This shtick was cute for a while, but it’s gotten stale.” Jokes that are funny for a second get dragged out for eternity, and the physical comedy isn’t half as effective as director Jake Szymanski thinks it is ... like watching two very funny brothers clown around....

Community Theater presents the comedy “Art” Oct. 20-23 (Matthews Opera House & Art Center)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jul 2016
Merchen directs the community theater comedy production of 'Art.' It is writtten by Yasmina Reza ... One of Marc's best friends, Serge, has just bought a very expensive painting ... Winner of the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Comedy. '…wildly funny, naughtily provocative…' -NY Post ... 'Anyone looking for a play that is funny, sophisticated, stylish, stimulating and moving should go to 'ART'.' -Independent (London)....

Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig pity the 'bizarre' Ghostbusters haters

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 07 Jul 2016
Ever since the project was announced, the over-entitled fanboys of the internet have teamed up with their fellow misogynist cybertravellers to hurl abuse and howl at the skies over (ironically) a man's decision, which he made two years ago when he was out for a morning walk ... Bridesmaids, also with Wiig and McCarthy, tore up the industry's rule book on how comedy audiences work ... "It was very painful....

Mongolian child contortionists stretch for international success

Edit Topix 07 Jul 2016
Nine-year-old Mongolian schoolgirl Suvd-Erdene spends four hours a day perfecting the art of doing a head-stand on a pole clenched with her teeth and push-ups without her feet touching the ground. ULAANBAATAR. Nine-year-old Mongolian schoolgirl Suvd-Erdene spends four hours a day perfecting the art of doing a head-stand on a pole clenched with her teeth and push-ups without her feet touching the ground ... ....

‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates’: Big laughs from the arm candy

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 07 Jul 2016
That’s the underlying premise of the surprisingly engaging and very funny “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.” ... In a summer that does not have much out there in the way of silly, antic-packed comedies, director Jake Szymanski — best known for his TV work on shows like “Saturday Night Live” and “Brooklyn ......
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