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The second edition of the French Comedy Club unfolds at the Lumière Cinéma in Beverly Hills this weekend. The event, which is open to cinema industry professionals and the public, aims to generate business and raise awareness about French comedy. Olivier Albou and Laurence Schonberg at…

There has been an outpouring of grief by British comedians for Gareth Richards, the popular stand-up comic and broadcaster who has died aged 41 from injuries sustained in a car accident last month.  Richards, who was a regular on the UK comedy circuit with annual trips to the Edinburgh fringe, was…

It all started with THAT scene in From Dusk Till Dawn in 1996. As everyone who saw the film remembers, Salma Hayek stole the show by playing the snake-dancing vampire stripper Santanico Pandemonium. That was an unforgettable cinema moment. But, as Hayek told GQ Hype about the scene, it led to her…

UPDATE: Comedian Chris Redd has opened up about the attack outside a New York City comedy club last week that left him bloodied and hospitalized. "This man hit me in the face with something metal," Redd says in a new interview with The Daily Beast. “I thought it was brass knuckles because of the way…

“If u saw me kick a guys ass after the show last night, I am sorry,” wrote comedian Kim Congdon on Twitter this weekend. “He sexually assaulted me after my set (and bragged about it on his way out), ruining an otherwise perfect night for me.” Congdon — whose credits include Impractical Jokers, Stoned…

EXCLUSIVE: Casey Benesch, a former Netflix executive who helped build up the streaming giant’s stature in comedy, is moving to rival Prime Video to head up comedy marketing. The move was announced internally by Ukonwa Ojo, global chief marketing officer for Prime Video and Amazon Studios. Benesch will report to Ojo…

The New York Comedy Festival has set a lineup of 200 performers set to take the stage across the city’s five boroughs when the festival returns in-person in November. Among those performing are Vir Das, Tim Dillon, Colin Quinn, Michelle Wolf, Norm Macdonald, Megan Stalter, Ronny Chieng, Nick Kroll, ALOK, Marc Maron…

A little over a year ago, actor, writer and producer Marlon Wayans struck an overall deal with HBO Max. Included in the pact was a show in development called Book of Marlon. Wayans also signed for a stand-up special and another multi-act special for the service. On Wednesday, details about the stand-up special came…

It's thrilling to watch Lionsgate make a run at the box office top spot with The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, a grown-up comedy. Not a kiddie fantasy, like Peter Rabbit 2 or Cruella. Not a Covid-era placeholder, like The War With Grandpa, or a streaming event, like Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. But a rough, raucous…

The Second City, the famed Chicago improv comedy outfit, has been acquired by private equity firm ZMC, whose founder and managing partner is longtime media figure Strauss Zelnick. Financial terms for the deal were not disclosed. Houlihan-Lokey served as a financial advisor to Second City on the transaction. The M&A…

CBS announced Monday the 20 performers selected to participate in its 2020 Comedy Showcase. Their performances will take place during six shows from January 14-17 at the El Portal Theatre in Los Angeles. Since its inception 15 years ago, the Showcase has turned into a hybrid comedy show with Broadway-style live…

EXCLUSIVE: Truly Tasteless Jokes, a series of slim paperbacks that became a publishing juggernaut in the 1980s, is the subject of a new documentary feature just acquired by Virgil Films. Tasteless, directed by Jeff Cerulli and Matt Ritter, traces the history of not only the books themselves but the way the material…