New York Comedians Say Low Pay No Laughing Matter
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The pay's a joke and it's not funny  any more -- New York comedians have had enough of working for  peanuts and are threatening to walk out if the city's top  stand-up comedy clubs don't raise their wages.
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Two stand-up comics accused of making  light of the Holocaust at the Edinburgh Fringe festival hit  back at their critics on Tuesday, igniting a debate about  where, if anywhere, to draw the line in comedy.
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Roseanne Barr, Drew Carey, Denis Leary, Paul Mooney, Mo'Nique and the shock-jock team Opie and Anthony will light up the inaugural New York Comedy Festival (Nov. 9-13), organizers said.
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LOS ANGELES  - Security and terrorism are no laughing matters, unless you happen to be one of the four stand-up comedians in "The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour."
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Funnymen Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are going back to work at Comedy Central whether they have writers to come up with jokes or not.  "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and the "Colbert Report" will resume production Jan. 7, the network revealed ...
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NEW YORK - On the heels of the Republican National Convention, New York City is being invaded by comedians. "I'll have more protesters," Drew Carey told The Associated Press by phone Wednesday...
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Two more late-night TV stars, political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of the Comedy Central cable network, said on Thursday they will go back to work next month despite the presumed continuance of the Hollywood writers strike.
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Lawmakers, congressional  staff and other "Hill rats" longing for the political humor  they've been without because of the writers' strike got their  fix on Wednesday during a faux debate between members of the  Writers Guild of America and the studios.
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TORONTO, Nov 22 (Reuters Life!) - An Israeli university is taking the notion that laughter is the best medicine seriously, setting up a Bachelor of Arts degree in medical clowning to help legitimize the profession.
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On the heels of the Republican National Convention, New York City is being invaded by comedians. "I'll have more protesters," Drew Carey told The Associated Press by phone Wednesday. "But I doubt there'll be any extra police."
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There were angry attacks at times, resounding laughter at others and a standing-room only audience.
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The minimum wage may be on its way up in New York, but one new study said the amount wouldn&#39;t be enough to pay rent in the state.
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Comedy Centralâs Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert returned to the air Monday pointing barbs at their own management and at the striking union.
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Some say talk is cheap. But not for the best-paid talk show hosts on television and radio.
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The Jon Lovitz-Andy Dick spat shows, once again, that being a funnyman is not always barrel of laughs
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The actress on the funny and unfunny sides of her life
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By Greg Connors  There's more to the world of online video than catching Michael Richards dropping verbal bombs in a comedy club.