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Comedy Audiences Are “Night and Day” From Before The Pandemic Says Stand-Up Mark Normand

Vic Shuttee — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:19:00 +0000

Look at Hamiliton! Imagine Hamilton in a Funny Bone in Des Moines, you know? It wouldn’t work. But it works on Broadway... So you put comedy in there and people go: ‘Hey, this is pretty good.’”

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Between Baking and Wipeouts, Comic-Host Nicole Byer is Too Busy To Slow Down

Vic Shuttee — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

"...I didn’t get to watch the Rugrats because I didn’t have cable growing up because my parents were fucking cheap and wanted to deprive me of fun and good times!"

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Ms. Pat Finding Her New Groove by Playing Clubs and Prepping Her New BET+ Sitcom

Vic Shuttee — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

"The really good thing about BET+ is they let me be me... They didn’t try to hush me up and I’ll tell you this: I’m NOT Claire Huxtable!”

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Bob Saget Hasn’t Been More Excited About Stand-Up Comedy “Since 1995”

Vic Shuttee — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

"I don’t touch politics, I touch things that are… I don’t touch anything! That’s going to read well. I don’t touch anything anymore."

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Young Sheldon Co-Star Doc Farrow Came To Texas For The Skydiving (and the Stand-Up Too)

Vic Shuttee — Mon, 10 May 2021 09:00:00 +0000

"The first couple of years I did stand up, I compared it to carrying a 80 pound pack in Iraq - It’s the scariest thing I’ve done, still is."

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Musical Comic Matt Griffo Leads a Night of Tunes, Visual Art and Humor at Studio Regina

Vic Shuttee — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Whether it’s Second City or other groups... seeing how people persevere in improv, where they’re still saying ‘we’re gonna make stuff!’ To see them persevering, I think has been really great.

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“Romanticized” Satirists Won’t Stop The Next Fascists, Warns Daily Show Vet Bassem Youssef

Vic Shuttee — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 03:48:13 +0000

Even the "Jon Stewart of Egypt" admits that's America's Jon Stewart joining Twitter is exciting, saying: "That’s the best thing of 2021. Jon Stewart can lead us anywhere!"

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Houston Ballet Nutcracker Market Adapts to the Pandemic with Virtual Ease

Vic Shuttee — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Long a Bayou City tradition, the annual parade of trades merchants returns at the Houston Ballet Nutcracker Market and thanks to a virtual leg-up from the folks at Map Dynamics, they’re making their 2020 season something truly unique. Evan Grappe...

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Hot Off An SNL All-Timer, Chappelle Gives House of Blues Houston Three Nights

Vic Shuttee — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

No stand-up comic in America offers a less predictable show than Dave Chappelle. The lion of stand-up has proven to be one of the fastest writers in the business, and show no qualms about releasing his quality material feverishly, often capturing the z...

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Houston Rapper JUNO’s 2nd Album Attempts to Capture Nostalgic “’90s Kid” Aesthetic During the Pandemic

Vic Shuttee — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:00:00 +0000

"We locked ourselves in the studio for like, a week. We did five days straight: we made a song a day. And almost every song we made during that time ended up on the album!"

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Steve Trevino Doesn’t Agree That Comedy is “Unessential Work”

Vic Shuttee — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:30:00 +0000

"Captain Evil is my wife! ...I’m very lucky to have a wife who is in on the joke, and she’s got thick skin"

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Rapper Turned Comic Chingo Bling Brings A More Mature Act to Houston Improv

Vic Shuttee — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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Veteran DJ Madd Hatta Returns To The Radio Game with New KTSU Venture The Vibe

Vic Shuttee — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:00:00 +0000

“I was sure that one day I would be away from that name… but then your career starts to happen...”

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From Houston To Hollywood, Writer Attica Locke Balances Novels with Empire and Little Fires Everywhere

Vic Shuttee — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:00:00 +0000

It was a roundabout way of getting there, but it sounds like Houstonian Attica Locke was born to write. “I’ve been writing my whole life, acknowledges the novelist and TV scribe promoting her latest book Heaven, My Home being published in paperback on ...

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Comedy Writer Alan Zweibel Curates Memoirs With Help From Funny Friends He’s Made Funnier

Vic Shuttee — Fri, 15 May 2020 12:08:00 +0000

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Music Man Mike Lee’s Pick Me Up Café Blends Folk and Blues To Be “Cosmic American”

Vic Shuttee — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 09:00:00 +0000

Queens-based singer/songwriter Mike Lee has spent the last year and a half on his debut full length, Pick Me Up Café – but he’s been writing songs longer than he knew. “I grew up in South Dakota and have this big country music background,” the stage ac...

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At ComedySportz Houston, The Show Will Go Online on April Fools Day – Really!

Vic Shuttee — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:00:00 +0000

"We’re going to actually have players broadcasting from their home, in their living rooms or whatever rooms they have in their house, and we’re going to be playing ComedySportz games right there."

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With Live Gigs Scarce, Comic-Songwriter Robert Price Goes Digital with “Heartbreak” Album

Vic Shuttee — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:00:00 +0000

“Every song is like a little play you don’t have to go to. Which is really convenient, because now we can’t!"

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Maysoon Zayid’s First Rule As A Stand-Up Comic: DO NO HARM

Vic Shuttee — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:00:00 +0000

"I was up against the wall of not seeing people on TV who looked like me, whether it was being a woman of color, or being disabled, or being of fluffy size."

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Adult Swim Stars Tim and Eric Fight “Relatable Safe Comedy” with Absurdity and Silliness

Vic Shuttee — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:00:00 +0000

“It’s ’95 so – yeah, it’s 25 years! In the fall it will be 25 years. That’s the Jubilee, no? The semi-Jubilee."

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