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Comics Come Home is an annual charity stand-up comedy festival held in Boston, Massachusetts.The event, co-founded by comedian Denis Leary (who remains its curator and presenter) and hockey hall of famer Cam Neely, [1] was first held in 1995 and is now the longest-running comedy fundraiser in the United States.
When Stand Up Stood Out is a documentary film by former Boston comedian Fran Solomita which chronicles the explosive popularity of the Boston Stand-up comedy scene in the 80s and early 90s. It was released on DVD on June 20, 2006 by THINKFilm, the distributor behind the documentary The Aristocrats.
Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer. He is known for his distinctive lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations.
Jimmy Brogan (born September 18, 1948), sometimes credited as Jim Brogan, is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He has made numerous stand-up appearances on the talk show circuit including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman. [2] He was a writer on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for 9 years. [3]
His first half-hour special was released on Comedy Central in 2017. [4] His comedic story "Catfishing the KKK" has been viewed more than 13 million times on YouTube. [5] In 2018, he appeared on the Netflix stand-up comedy series The Comedy Lineup. [6] At the New York Comedy Festival that year, he was named New York's Funniest Stand Up. [7]
Growing up on Long Island, N.Y., James idolized comics like Steve Martin and Robert Klein. When he finally made it to Saturday Night Live to audition, he bombed.
Bargatze began his stand-up comedy career in Chicago, [6] and later did comedy at the Boston Comedy Club in New York City. He has called the Jerry Seinfeld documentary Comedian (2002) "life-changing" and a "big reason why he moved to New York". [7] He has appeared on Conan [8] and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. [9]
Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. arrive at the Fall Schedule Celebration at Paramount Studios on May 02, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. ... He braved the world of stand-up comedy in 2005 under ...