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August 14, 2018
... His early pursuits in the 1980s included acting and stand-up, but by 1990 he was writing sketch comedy ( In ... what I called "a serious actor," but I had an interest in stand-up. I remember lying my way into the Comedy Store, ... out how to write the show, because it's not a regular sitcom. I had to train myself to write. One of the exercises ...
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May 25, 2021
... sharp sensibility to The Mindy Project , a groundbreaking sitcom featuring a South Asian lead who doesn't fit into many ... either! All-American Girl (ABC) - This was the first sitcom I saw as a kid featuring a Korean-American as a lead ... I love to see a strong statement blazer on my screen. STAND-UP COMEDY SPECIALS Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (Netflix) - ...
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September 16, 2022
... becoming a show about pro-humanity rather than a "ha-ha" sitcom. The cast would express their fears, and he would ... the next scene. There he was, with a little makeshift stand made of orange crates, selling tickets to watch his ...
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December 11, 2019
... the outrageous things — decides to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian in 1958. Starring Rachel Brosnahan as Midge ... real-life 1950s, Jean Carroll — America's first female stand-up star — was itching to ditch show biz and be a ... (by Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen), she quit the domestic sitcom after only 12 episodes — much to the chagrin of her ...
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December 7, 2016
... work. Seinfeld had gotten big laughs by reading David’s stand-up material at a birthday party for mutual friend Carol ... on it, suggesting a 90-minute special called Seinfeld’s Stand-Up Diary that would air in Saturday Night Live ’s ... script, in February 1989, they realized they had a sitcom on their hands instead of a special. Jerry and a ...
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March 15, 2014
... . A decade earlier, Brenner shot seven spisodes of a sitcom called Snip , set in a hair salon, but the show was ... NBC's fall schedule before it aired. He also made several stand-up comedy specials and in recent years made wry observtions about current events on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. Brenner died March 15, ...
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November 3, 2021
... a group of female comedians from Petaluma scored an NBC sitcom called The Mommies , Underhill decided to try her hand ...
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August 26, 2015
Before Jerrod Carmichael knew he wanted to be a stand-up comedian, he knew he wanted a show on NBC. “When I ... to pursue comedy, and at 20 he moved to L.A. His Hollywood stand-up gigs led to writing for a sketch comedy, Loiter ... Stoller in the process. “A lot of times, the multi-cam sitcom is so removed from reality, and audiences recognize ...
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September 8, 2017
... that would be perfect on Everybody Loves Raymond or in a stand-up special. If Romano wanted to revisit that familiar ... And any network would be happy to air another Romano-led sitcom. Instead, Romano has gone another way. After Raymond ... has a gentle punchline, he's never glib. "When I started stand-up, I just loved doing stand-up. It was never a means ...