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Minneapolis' First Avenue announced that they had canceled Dave Chappelle's show, citing serious pushback over his past comments.

HBO & Tig Notaro are together again- except this time, things get really animated in the upcoming comedy special Tig Notaro: Drawn.

Case-in-point? Eric Andre and his first stand-up special Legalize Everything, set to premiere on Netflix on June 23 With slightly less than two weeks before it hits the streamer, Netflix released a clip that hits on another but of timely news from this week: Paramount Network canceling COPS ahead of its 33rd season In the[...]

In what comes across more as an important comedic conversation than a stand-up special, Chappelle opens up about the death of several other black men at the hands of police, such Michael Brown in Missouri, Trayvon Martin in Florida, and Eric Garner in New York City; and called out the media for its past coverage[...]

Comedy Central's Monika Zielinska is the executive in charge of production. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sbw0lZ9LmYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: How Do 90% of Americans Have Jobs? – Daniel Tosh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sbw0lZ9LmY) "It is a testament to Daniel's creative genius and expertise as a producer that he can keep a series thriving for 16 seasons while juggling stand-up projects,[...]

So when stand-up comic Louis C.K chose to make Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, and others the focus of one of his jokes during, the actor/comedian joined a chorus of others who wouldn't let the comedian's comments go unchecked. Showtime During a recent stand-up performance (part of his attempt to resurrect his career after admitting in November 2017 to sexual harassment[...]

Welcome back to The Bleeding Cool TV Top 10 Best of 2018, as we near the end of our countdown with #2, Amazon Prime Video's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

When the preview trailer for a new series ends with a line like, "The point is, we're all gonna die", it grabs people's attention. Comedian and former The Daily Show correspondent Michelle Wolf is no stranger to grabbing attention: taking to Netflix for her new series The Break with Michelle Wolf

The Weekly Static is our look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting and entertaining perspective. THIS WEEK: Rick and Morty; Sherlock; Family Guy; Daniel Bryan; and Hallmark Christmas movies.

Having previously bought the rights to his current stand-up comedy tour Humanity, the streaming service has also secured the rights to his next, as-yet-unnamed stand-up show. Filmed in London's Eventim Apollow and set to premiere in the early part of 2018, Humanity is only the recent example of the offerings Netflix has had for Gervais fans[...]

Saying that comedian Dave Chappelle has an "interesting" take on Louis C.K.'s recent sexual harassment allegations might just be the understatement of the year, and we haven't even made it to January 3rd yet.

His new Netflix stand-up special Dave Chappelle: Equanimity is set to arrive on New Year's Eve, so the streaming service has released a preview that has the comedian giving his perspective on what it was like voting alongside Donald Trump supporters and the interactions he had with them. Here's the pretty-much-NSFW clip from Dave Chappelle: Equanimity, debuting December[...]

For 25 years, creator and producer Russell Simmons's Def Comedy Jam was the comedy show for some of the best and brightest comics performing raw, cutting-edge stand-up To commemorate its influence on today's comedy scene, Netflix has released the official trailer for Def Comedy Jam 25: a comedy special that brings back a number of comedians to celebrate the show's past and set a[...]

For his first Netflix stand-up special Jerry Before Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld is going back home to where his comedy roots first took hold: New York City's The Comic Strip. As we can see from the new trailer released on Tuesday, the comedian finds himself splitting time between preparing for an intimate stand-up set at the famed[...]

Netflix is producing Def Comedy Jam 25, a comedy special to celebrate the show's past and set a strong foundation for the show moving forward.