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Chris Rock’s live Netflix special will stream from Baltimore on Saturday. Here’s how to watch at home

BALTIMORE — Chris Rock’s live performance from the Hippodrome Theatre on Saturday, “Selective Outrage,” will be the first of its kind on Netflix, streaming live from Baltimore.

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Chris Rock’s live Netflix special taps several comedy greats, from Sykes to Seinfeld

Chris Rock’s live Netflix comedy special has added some Hollywood heavyweights to its lineup.

Los Angeles Times

‘We took the sitcom and blew it apart’: how The Young Ones changed comedy for ever

With flying eclairs, falling beds and exploding buses, the anarchic antics of Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike shoved alternative comedy into the mainstream. Forty years on, we ask the show’s creators how they pulled it off

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The Comedy Store in LA is rumored to be haunted. So we went ghost hunting with the pros

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles is rife with ghosts, and paranormal investigator Zak Bagans is on the hunt. The host of the Travel Channel's "Ghost Adventures" and his crew of spirit sleuths have roamed the city, capturing all manner of unexplained phenomena on camera. Among the haunted places they've explored…

Los Angeles Times

Arnold Brown: Celebrating Scotland’s King of 'woke' comedy

COMEDY fans are preparing themselves for the post-Covid return of the huge jamboree of humour that is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. As they do so,…

The National (Scotland)

My worst moment: Tommy Davidson bet a TV version of ‘Coming to America’ would make him a star. He bet wrong

“I do a little bit of everything,” Tommy Davidson says of his stand-up act. “It’s a little bit political. It’s a little bit of storytelling. It’s a little bit autobiographical. It’s a little bit of improv. The only thing that’s on my mind when I get on stage is that…

Chicago Tribune

The comedy industry is flirting with an uprising

Wages for most comedians have stagnated for decades. What happens next might not be funny at all.

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At secret show, Dave Chappelle recounts meeting attacker, shares rationale

Comedian Dave Chappelle on Thursday talked about meeting with his alleged attacker and shared what he believes is the man’s motive for tackling him onstage Tuesday at the Hollywood Bowl.

Los Angeles Times

My worst moment: When you gotta go, you gotta go — comedian Natasha Leggero reveals all

CHICAGO — Natasha Leggero describes “Rat in the Kitchen,” her new cooking competition series on TBS, as “a cooking whodunit, almost in the vein of "Knives Out" or "Clue." We have all these chefs that are coming on to win a cash prize, but what no one knows” — including…

Chicago Tribune

Bob Saget’s Comedy Store memorial will be a Netflix special, pal Mike Binder says

LOS ANGELES — The raunchy, star-studded salute to the late Bob Saget that took place at West Hollywood’s vaunted Comedy Store in January is reportedly being turned into a Netflix comedy special.

Los Angeles Times

Pauly Shore shares memories of his final goodbye to Louie Anderson: 'I cried'

MINNEAPOLIS — Pauly Shore was most likely the last comic to bid farewell to Louie Anderson. And that's appropriate. The "Encino Man" star's mother was the late Mitzi Shore, who ran the famed Comedy Store in Los Angeles and was one of the first gatekeepers to recognize Anderson's talent.

Tribune News Service

Video of Joe Rogan laughing as guest describes sexually exploiting young women at comedy club resurfaces

Social media critic says ‘It’s hard to watch, to be honest’

The Independent UK

Review: Amazon's new doc is an inspirational oral history of LA's Black comedy scene

"Phat Tuesdays," a three-part docuseries that premiered Friday on Amazon Prime, tells the story of the weekly show that brought Black comedy and Black audiences to Hollywood — West Hollywood, technically — and the Comedy Store, from 1995 to 2005, as well as what came before and what's come after.…

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