When it comes to comedy, virtually anything to do with the storied Comedy Store in Los Angeles can easily become a big deal, including or perhaps especially when the place is being hit with lawsuits. Not least when the person in the crosshairs is none other than Pauly Shore, the son of the legendary Mitzi…
Do the onstage attacks on Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle indicate an open season of assaults on comedians over their material, or is something else really at play here?
So, comedians, as we all know, set out to make people laugh when they’re at work. But the funny thing is, they sometimes also make people angry and mad as hell. In fact, so mad that sometimes some of these people actually do attack them. As in, (gasp!) attack them physically, that is. Cut to…
Doing stand-up comedy is no easy thing: for starters, it’s hard enough being heckled by someone in the audience because of something the comedian said. And then, things could get even more complicated when someone in the audience chooses instead to throw something at the comedian onstage because of something that the comedian had said….
Though he’s still pretty young, aspiring comedian Charles Ross not long ago learned a simple lesson he should have known all along: that comedy is only about jokes as long as everyone understands what is happening as a joke even if they may not like the joke. And of course, as long as any funnyman…
Comedians have a reputation for being weird and Mike Epps, known for his roles in The Hangover and Jumping the Broom movies, is no stranger to weird moments. But what happened to him on May 6 was so weird that it caught him totally unawares, perhaps more so because he was onstage at the time…
Comedian Andy Dick is in trouble again. Only this time, he is not being arrested by the cops but is being sued by someone who won’t take his antics lying down. In early May, a Dallas man named Robert Tucker filed a lawsuit against Dick, his agent the United Talent Agency (UTA) and a Dallas…