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Comedian Carmen Christopher is set to bring his unique brand of humor to premier streaming platform Veeps with his new comedy special, Live From The Windy City, airing on Thursday, August 1, 2024. This special, filmed in Chicago, serves as a hilarious tribute to the comic’s hometown. Veeps ALL ACCESS subscribers can access the show for free as part of their subscription, while individual tickets for the livestream are on sale for $14.99 HERE.

Carmen Christopher's LIVE FROM THE WINDY CITY Comedy Special to Premiere on Veeps

1 CJ Eldred, Jenna Pastuszek & More to Star in IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, TYLER PRICE!. Write Act Repertory has announced its inaugural Hot Summer Nights - The Musicals (2024), a collection of 4 World Premiere original one act plays written by various Write Act Repertory writers for a limited run of performances. Bask in the heat of summer in this festival of musicals filled with romance, magic, memories, and renewal.

Write Act Repertory Will Host HOT SUMMER NIGHTS - THE MUSICALS Next Month

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	Eddie Murphy says he stopped using his famous laugh after fans and comedians began mimicking his guffaw during the height of his career.Eddie Murphy Says David Spade Made "Racist Joke" About Him On 'Saturday Night Live'




	The comedic icon recently appeared in an interview for CBR, in which he says he was “forced” to stop using his laugh due to the public “making too much of it.” According to Murphy, his laugh, which garnered attention via his performance in the original Beverly Hills Cop film, was natural and not dramatized for comedic effect.




	“Not Axel’s laugh, it was my laugh,” the New York native...

Eddie Murphy Says He Was “Forced” To Stop Using His Signature Laugh For This Reason

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A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

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Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon’s children are adults that are not only performers like their parents, but also fun-loving. Appearing on red carpets with their parents and on stages on their own, this is one supportive family that includes fun, loving Instagram posts.

Meet Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon’s Two Creative Children

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Erica Ash, the comedian who starred on MADtv and Survivor's Remorse, died on July 28 after a long battle with cancer, her publicist told The Hollywood Reporter....

Erica Ash, Scary Movie Actress and MADtv Comedian, Dead at 46

Singer-songwriter, poet, actor and multi-instrumentalist Willie Watson has released a new single titled ‘Slim and The Devil’. The song is a wits-sharp adaptation of the Sterling A. Brown poem, ‘Slim Greer in Hell.’ The story of a Faustian bargain made with St. Peter at the pearly gates in exchange for one more earthly adventure, it’s a sly contemplation of the meaningless deals we make to endure when we all know what’s inevitable.

Willie Watson Releases New Single 'Slim And The Devil'

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	CNN anchor/correspondent Alisyn Camerota’s memoir “Combat Love: A Story of Leaving, Longing and Searching for Home,” is being developed for film and TV from Tiwary Entertainment Group, the producers behind Broadway musicals like Alanis Morisette’s “Jagged Little Pill” and Green Day’s “American Idiot.”CNN Has Temporary Primetime Assignments for Jake Tapper, Laura Coates, Alisyn Camerota




	The memoir explores Camerota’s teenage years in the 1980s music scenes and gritty clubs of the Jersey Shore and New York City. She shares stories of her backstage shenanigans with punk bands like the Ramones, and trying to get herself into the world of her favorite local...

CNN Anchor Alisyn Camerota’s Memoir to Be Adapted for Screen By ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Producers TEG+ (EXCLUSIVE)

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ABC has ordered a new sitcom starring Tim Allen and Kat Dennings.

ABC orders new sitcom starring Tim Allen, Kat Dennings

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Portland, Oregon-based songwriter, Haley Heynderickx, is releasing her first new song since the release of her debut record I Need to Start a Garden in 2018. Her new single “Seed of a Seed”, out now on her hometown label Mama Bird Recording Co., is a reclamation of sorts. It is a song that came about accidentally, one about searching for peace in a world that tells you peace is unattainable. It's a song about tiny things, and time, and nature. Naturally. Heynderickx’s new song is quintessential to her deliberate creative process, but also to her as a fully realized and complex individual whose desire and need to create is antithetical to the capitalist need for constant content creation. “Seed of a Seed” sees Haley Heynderickx on vocals and acoustic guitar, William Seiji Marsh on tenor guitar, Caleigh Drane on cello and string arrangement, and Matthew Holmes on double bass.

Haley Heynderickx Shares 'Seed of a Seed,' Her First Single in Six Years

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Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. Speaking very openly about this, Eddie Murphy once shared that in the 1980s there was a moment when he managed to stay away from drugs. This happened at the Blues Bar where Murphy at the time was a 19-year-old man accompanying famous comedians Robin Williams and John Belushi. At this time, Murphy made a decision that would not only change his life and career, but also that of the other two stars; the two stars sniffed cocaine.

Along with Robin Williams and John Belushi, Eddie Murphy Refused to Do Cocaine.

A Florida native herself, Ferrentino had heard of Jackie and David Siegel, but it was only after seeing Lauren Greenfield’s award-winning 2012 documentary about them that she says she became “obsessed” with creating a musical about the rags-to-riches story of the onetime computer engineer who became Mrs. Florida, and mother to eight children, her husband, “The Timeshare King,” and their plan to build the biggest private home in America – a $100 million mansion inspired by the Palace of Versailles – outside Orlando.

Interview: For Playwright Lindsey Ferrentino, THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES is a Hometown Story


				













	Seth Meyers has set his debut comedy special with HBO.Mel Brooks Documentary Co-Directed by Judd Apatow Set at HBO




	The “Late Night” host and “Saturday Night Live” alum taped the stand-up hour in front of a live audience at Chicago’s Vic Theatre.




	The special will debut sometime this fall on HBO and will be available to stream on Max.




	“Critics say it’s the special my kids will be talking about in therapy twenty years from now!” Meyers quipped.'I Think You Should Leave' Duo's HBO Comedy Pilot 'Chair Company' Adds Five to Cast (EXCLUSIVE)




	Comic and “The Chappelle Show” co-creator Neal Brennan directs the special, which...

Seth Meyers Sets First HBO Comedy Special

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

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All new photos have been released of the new West End cast in rehearsals for the critically acclaimed BACK TO THE FUTURE The Musical. Check out the photos below!. From 14 August 2024, the show will star recent graduate Vasco Emauz, who is making his West End debut as ‘Marty McFly’, Orlando Gibbs as ‘George McFly’, C.J. Borger as ‘Goldie Wilson’ and ‘Marvin Berry’, Alex Runicles as ‘Biff Tannen’, Talia Palamathanan as ‘Jennifer Parker’, Ellis Kirk as alternate ‘Marty McFly’ and Liam McHugh as ‘Dave McFly’. They are joined by returning cast members Cory English as ‘Doctor Emmett Brown’, Sarah Goggin as ‘Lorraine Baines’, Lee Ormsby as ‘Strickland’ and alternate ‘Doctor Emmett Brown’ and Patricia Wilkins as ‘Linda McFly’. The cast is completed by Kofi Aidoo-Appiah, Ella Beaumont, Billie Bowman, Gracie Caine, Sia Dauda, Alexander Day, Helen Gulston, Matthew Ives, Connor Lewis, Adam Margilewski, Bryan Mottram, Anna Murray, Samuel Nicholas, Louis Quinn, Zachkiel Smith, Grace Swaby-Moore and Alexandra Wright.

Photos: BACK TO THE FUTURE New West End Cast in Rehearsal

The Department of Motor Vehicles is arguably the great equalizer, a place no one particularly wants to go, yet we all have to put in our time there, no matter our race, ethnicity, gender, political affiliation or socioeconomic status. At various points in our lives, we all go to the DMV and wait. And wait. Thus, it occurred to Don Reed it might be the perfect setting for his solo show about what brings us all together. In his show, aptly and succinctly named The DMV, Reed employs his unique blend of uproarious comedy, trenchant observation and some seriously smooth dance moves to explore the lives of eight very different individuals who just happen to be waiting in line at the DMV.

Interview: Don Reed of THE DMV at The Marsh Berkeley

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are two of the biggest celebrities in modern times. While much of the happenings between the two involved their marriage and divorce, there are bigger things for them to focus on. Most notably their children.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Son Diagnosed With Rare Skin Condition

The 2024/25 Broadway season is here at last, with many new productions set to arrive before the end of the year. For eight of those productions (Home, The Roommate, Yellow Face, McNeal, Our Town, Left on Tenth, Romeo + Juliet, and Gypsy), Broadway is the first stop, but the other twelve have have already enjoyed runs all over the world. Check out where this fall's shows were developed below!

Where Broadway's Newest Shows Got Their Start

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Kevin Bacon has been famous for decades. He once applied a disguise to experience life on the other side of fame, and he didn't enjoy it.

Kevin Bacon used prosthetics to experience life as a normal person: 'This sucks'

The latest episode of Oh My Pod U Guys (hosted by Jayke Workman) is here! Oh My Pod U Guys is a weekly musical theater and pop culture chat show, in which Jayke discusses current events in the world of theater and the arts, and interviews some of your favorite Broadway personalities and members of the LGBTQ+ community!

Exclusive: Oh My Pod U Guys- Making Memories with Mamie Parris

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Nick Thune to Perform at Comedy Works Larimer Square in August

Nick Thune will perform at Comedy Works Larimer Square:Thursday August 1 / 7:30 PM / $18.00; Friday August 2 / 7:30 PM & 9:45 PM /...

Nick Thune to Perform at Comedy Works Larimer Square in August

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