The Just For Laughs Comedy Festival has unveiled its list of top up-and-coming comedians in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere, who are set to participate in the New Faces of Comedy showcase later this week. The event is a traditional launch pad for major Hollywood talent like Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Kumail Nanjiani and Jimmy Fallon.
The success of their careers makes New Faces the industry’s biggest coming-out party for rising stand-up talent serious business. Young hopefuls eyeing Hollywood development deals grab the microphone at Just For Laughs in Montreal to draw laughter from a club audience as Los Angeles talent scouts, comedy agents and managers, TV execs and club bookers look on.
No pressure there. Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, who will receive the best comedy person award at the Just For Laughs ComedyPro conference later this week, was part of the New Faces comic discovery program in 2017.
Over three days,...
The success of their careers makes New Faces the industry’s biggest coming-out party for rising stand-up talent serious business. Young hopefuls eyeing Hollywood development deals grab the microphone at Just For Laughs in Montreal to draw laughter from a club audience as Los Angeles talent scouts, comedy agents and managers, TV execs and club bookers look on.
No pressure there. Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, who will receive the best comedy person award at the Just For Laughs ComedyPro conference later this week, was part of the New Faces comic discovery program in 2017.
Over three days,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the fantasy adventure Tower of Silence, and you can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.
Directed by Erik Flynn Patton from a screenplay written by Daniel Patton, Tower of Silence has the following synopsis: When the great sorceress Kae is captured by a mysterious enemy, her young followers devise a plan to rescue her. Whoever wrote that one believed in keeping things short and simple.
The film stars Jenny Sterlin, Brandon Tyler Harris, Taylor Rose, Brandon Gill, Mark Evans, Christopher L. McAllister, Rick Zahn, Melissa Navia, Arielle Jacobs, Sipiwe Moyo,...
Directed by Erik Flynn Patton from a screenplay written by Daniel Patton, Tower of Silence has the following synopsis: When the great sorceress Kae is captured by a mysterious enemy, her young followers devise a plan to rescue her. Whoever wrote that one believed in keeping things short and simple.
The film stars Jenny Sterlin, Brandon Tyler Harris, Taylor Rose, Brandon Gill, Mark Evans, Christopher L. McAllister, Rick Zahn, Melissa Navia, Arielle Jacobs, Sipiwe Moyo,...
- 4/5/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Your favorite podcast hosts Jason A. Coombs and Samantha Tuozzolo are back with the hilarious, insightful and genuine Inventing Anna star, Chris Cafero who plays David Morrison, on the hit Netflix limited series. Chris guides us through his artistic journey from working in the hospitality industry to booking his first major recurring role on the classic soap opera, As the World Turns, to writing and producing the award winning New York City based sketch comedy show, Uncle Function...
- 4/24/2022
- by Survival Jobs
- BroadwayWorld.com
Your favorite podcast hosts Jason A. Coombs and Samantha Tuozzolo are back with the hilarious, insightful and genuine Inventing Anna star, Chris Cafero who plays David Morrison, on the hit Netflix limited series. Chris guides us through his artistic journey from working in the hospitality industry to booking his first major recurring role on the classic soap opera, As the World Turns, to writing and producing the award winning New York City based sketch comedy show, Uncle Function...
- 4/21/2022
- by Survival Jobs
- BroadwayWorld.com
Nearly 10 years ago, Billy Crystal and writer Quinton Peeples started work on a screenplay they’d eventually call Have A Nice Day. Not terribly long in Hollywood development years, but eons removed from our current political climate.
Performed and recorded (by Amazon’s Audible) as a staged Off Broadway reading last night and tonight by a starry ensemble – Crystal, Kevin Kline, Annette Bening and Dick Cavett, among others – Have a Nice Day, with its progressive, honest and do-good president, is just a fantasy too far, even given its Wonderful Life trappings.
Crystal, in full-on City Slickers likability, plays a bumbling, sweet-tempered angel of death who comes calling on David Murray (Kline), a middle-aged man with a stifled wife (Bening) and a teenage daughter threatening tattoo-level rebellion.
Since Murray happens to be President of the United States, the visit from this track-suited existential...
Performed and recorded (by Amazon’s Audible) as a staged Off Broadway reading last night and tonight by a starry ensemble – Crystal, Kevin Kline, Annette Bening and Dick Cavett, among others – Have a Nice Day, with its progressive, honest and do-good president, is just a fantasy too far, even given its Wonderful Life trappings.
Crystal, in full-on City Slickers likability, plays a bumbling, sweet-tempered angel of death who comes calling on David Murray (Kline), a middle-aged man with a stifled wife (Bening) and a teenage daughter threatening tattoo-level rebellion.
Since Murray happens to be President of the United States, the visit from this track-suited existential...
- 10/9/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Audible’s two-night live reading of Billy Crystal’s new play Have a Nice Day has rounded out its Off Broadway cast, with Keegan-Michael Key, Darrell Hammond and Dick Cavett among those set to take the Minetta Lane Theatre stage with Crystal, Annette Bening and Kevin Kline next month.
The Have a Nice Day reading, set for October 7-8, will be recorded live, with the audio made available on Amazon’s Audible service shortly thereafter. The new play is part of Audible’s recently announced fall lineup of productions at the Minetta Lane in New York’s Greenwich Village.
Completing Crystal’s cast will be Auli’i Cravalho, Irene Bedard, Chris Cafero, Robin Thede and Robert King. The comedy was written by Crystal and Quinton Peeples, with Kline starring as a U.S. president deciding whether to run for a second term. Crystal plays the Angel of Death, and Cavett is the narrator.
The Have a Nice Day reading, set for October 7-8, will be recorded live, with the audio made available on Amazon’s Audible service shortly thereafter. The new play is part of Audible’s recently announced fall lineup of productions at the Minetta Lane in New York’s Greenwich Village.
Completing Crystal’s cast will be Auli’i Cravalho, Irene Bedard, Chris Cafero, Robin Thede and Robert King. The comedy was written by Crystal and Quinton Peeples, with Kline starring as a U.S. president deciding whether to run for a second term. Crystal plays the Angel of Death, and Cavett is the narrator.
- 9/18/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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