At Beauty Bar – a nightspot where Pabst Blue Ribbon cans and red-glittered walls mix in a prom-for-hipsters way – Kaseem Bentley mounts a mini-stage better suited for go-go dancing than stand-up ...
President Sir Frank Cooper of The African American Humor Awards Society, the very first Black comedy award show. Photo Credit: Sir Frank Cooper Established in 1989 by Sir Frank Cooper, The African ...
Comedy Central’s “South Side” series premiere reached beyond the Chicago city limits — especially among African Americans. Counting three days of playback, the new comedy’s first episode posted a 0.85 ...
What is the deal with international comedy? Join me each week to ask that very question in Comedy Tourism as I explore different trends and traditions of how the rest of the world makes funny in their ...
South African comedian Trevor Noah’s life story doesn’t immediately scream comedy. His standup explores his complicated relationship with racial identity, having grown up mixed race in apartheid-era ...
A new South African comedy series is coming to Netflix. The streamer announced its upcoming young adult series, Miseducation, which is launching on Sept. 15. Here’s an official description: Mbali ...
33 Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie comedy from South Africa titled Soweto Blaze, the latest from South African filmmaker Brad Katzen. This initially premiered at the 2023 Austin ...
When the young South African comedian Trevor Noah took the stage on The Tonight Show earlier this year to deliver a five-minute set, Jay Leno and guest Glenn Close could be seen roaring in the ...
Noah is a post-Apartheid comic who specializes in mining material from melancholic episodes of his own harsh upbringing. His mother, Patricia, is a Xhosa-speaking black woman from Soweto township who ...
Laugh all you want but the success of filmmaker Brett Michael Innes’ first foray into mockumentary territory with “Daryn’s Gym” is part of a growing South African slate flexing its muscles within a ...
The inaugural event, touted as the biggest comedy festival on the African continent, will feature local comedians and such U.S. talent as Aries Spears, Hannibal Buress and Jeff Ross. By Georg Szalai ...
A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...
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