When news silences satire: Why firing Kathy Griffin today weakens Anderson Cooper tomorrow
When the media takes down a comedian, we all lose. When the hubbub of Twitter firestarters and talking heads are starting fights to fill time, and when those shrillest voices of dissent cost a satirist their livelihoods, there is no excuse. It’s as wrong as it is shortsighted — and sadly, it seems to be happening more […]
CNN to premiere “The History of Comedy” in February
The History of Comedy, executive produced by Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner (Hazy Mills) with Emmy Award winners Mark Herzog and Christopher G. Cowen (Herzog & Company), will premiere Thursday, February 9th, at 9pm on CNN. Following a world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Using archival footage punctuated by contemporary interviews with comedy legends, […]
The Laugh Button Live! at SXSW 2019 in Photos
Now that we’ve returned from the madness that is SXSW, we’re able to come up for air from a week of laughing our butts off the great comedy the festival has to offer. On Tuesday night we wrapped our show with standing-room-only comedy show with some seriously funny comedy delivered by Erik Grffin, Matt Braunger, […]
This Week In Comedy: Anthony Jeselnik Premieres His Third Netflix Special “Bones And All”
Courtesy of Netflix. This Week In Comedy: It’s Thanksgiving Week and returning with his first comedy special in over five years is the master of dark comedy Anthony Jeselnik. In his new special premiering on Netflix, Bones And All, “Jeselnik celebrates 20 years of delivering witty, boundary-pushing comedy in his new razor-sharp stand-up special.” The […]