Títulos em Artes e Entretenimento

Originally from Memphis, TN, Nick Cobb had an obsession with meaningless nonsense that set the stage for him to embark on a whirlwind comedy career. While studying psychology at Indiana University, Cobb took on a job at the aptly named comedy club The Looney Bin. However, it wasn't until he won his first stand-up competition at a random Beale Street bar that he was bitten by the comedy bug and jumped at the chance to make the move to New York to chase his dream.

Angela Arden wants to be free of her suffocating marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. What better way than poison! Distraught by her father’s death and convinced of her mother’s guilt, Edith Sussman plots to get the truth out of Angela using any means necessary. Charles Busch stars in the role he originated in this camp send-up where tongues aren’t the only thing dipped in acid.

The legendary Ice House Club celebrated it's 50th Anniversary with this live all-star comedy extravaganza. The recording of this momentous night features 8 national headliners in an amazing tribute that will be remembered as one of the strongest Comedy shows in history.

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director Jane Anderson presents four one-act plays: A Seminar For Responsible Living; The Last Time I Saw Her; Earthquake Preparedness; Lynette Has PMS. With unforgettable characters and scathing humor, the stories explore the challenges of life in Los Angeles, from gun violence to earthquakes. These short pieces ask us to consider what we need to take with us into the next hundred years, and what is best left behind.

After getting kicked out of the police academy, Alfred Robles rose to become one of the hottest young comedians in the country. Two years into his comedy career, Alfred was featured on the hit shows Loco Comedy Jam and the Latino Laugh Festival.

The acclaimed Scottish playwright Rona Munro has created a remarkable story about a man who wakes up from a car crash with brain damage. Now, he sees the world as the person he was three years ago, when his life and loves were in a very different place. This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays.

On a spring day in 1947, Mr. Rickey, the powerful General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, summons heavyweight champion Joe Louis, tap star Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and actor Paul Robeson to his hotel room in Manhattan. Rickey wants their support when he taps Jackie Robinson to be the Major League's first black ballplayer. But a power struggle ensues when the eloquent Robeson raises questions about Rickey's motivations to integrate white baseball.

Kristin Key, a minister's daughter from a small town in West Texas, has a wealth of comedy material including her true story of "coming out" of and "going back in" to the closet. She perfectly blends thought-provoking, hilarious true stories, original songs, and keen observations with outrageous wit and off-the-cuff improv moments. A finalist on Last Comic Standing, this is her fourth album for Uproar.

Darryl Littleton, pka D'Militant, is a comedy historian, a writer, a stand-up comedian, a producer, and an actor. Known for his crackling wit as well as his slicing and incisive social and political commentary, in Too Raw for Mainstream he gives you his uncensored opinions on today's topics. No subject is out of bounds, no topic too sensitive, no commentary too raw.

Jamal Doman has his own style of comedy, which he refers to as "sophisticated ghetto". Jamal says, "My comedy is much like my personality. I'm from the hood, but I have some sophistication to me." Called "a comedian's comedian" by his peers, Jamal is poised on the brink of stardom. Jamal may be rough around the edges, but he is genuine at the core, and the audience relates to him.

In this original adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel, an encounter in Florence and an offer to exchange rooms brings George Emerson to the attention of Lucy Honeychurch. Their flirtation is cut short by Lucy’s chaperone, but when they meet again back home in England, Lucy must negotiate the demands of her station with the desires of her heart.

During WWII in Seattle, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi fights the US government's orders to forcibly remove and incarcerate all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. As he struggles to reconcile his country's betrayal with his passionate belief in the US Constitution, Gordon begins a 50-year journey toward a greater understanding of America's triumphs - and a confrontation with its failures.

Alex Elkin is a serious jokester and Screaming at Shapes, his latest comedy release, is serious fun. Alex, winner of the 2016 San Francisco Comedy Competition, is 100% committed to making you laugh. He's bombastic and forthright, ironically abrasive, provocative and witty. Fearless, energetic, diving into characters, tackling taboos and hot button topics, Alex Elkin is an emphatic and versatile performer. His grievances against puberty, obnoxious pet owners, nosy children, and his epiphanies about bidets and transgender people, are all rendered in highly-detailed hilarity.

Gen X Man, the latest album from comedian Erik Myers, is a laugh riot that feels like an actual riot. Erik is a foul-mouthed, whirling buzzsaw of brilliant observational comedy. He runs hotter and cuts deeper than a flaming house filled with razor blades. Cleared-eyed rage, true-to-life grievances, and commonplace annoyances, Gen X Man blasts with hilarious, fiery, righteous anger. His social commentary avoids the trappings of trendy, hot-button topics.

70 Jahre Grundgesetz - was für ein Jubiläum. Am 23. Mai 1949 erlassen, sollte es lediglich bis zur Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands gelten. Doch ist aus dem Provisorium längst der unverrückbare Grundstein der Bundesrepublik Deutschland geworden. Neben der Gliederung in Judikative, Exekutive und Legislative Staatsorgane legt das Grundgesetz auch die Grundrechte jedes Menschen in der Bundesrepublik fest. Doch gerade in Zeiten des politischen Aufruhrs stellt sich die Frage, wie es um die Einhaltung dieser Gesetze bestellt ist.

Jackie Monahan is smart, salty and sophisticated, an ironic degenerate with sharp, salacious wordplay. Her debut album, These Lips, constantly ups the ante. She takes seemingly innocuous statements and warps them with a pulpy pun, a crafty subversion, or delightful depravity. Jackie is electric, less of a livewire and more of a stun gun. She administers taboos as a series of controlled shocks, providing just enough charge for audiences to enjoy the jolts.

A Phil Silvers Festival is collection of tributes, parodies and rarities of the great con man comedian-written, produced and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio and TV broadcasts. This set includes "Jack Robinson at Your Service", "The Wolf and the Goat", "The Fox and the Penguin", "His Second to Last Bow", "This Here is Your Life", "Robin Cat", "Command Performance", "The Tailor Shop", "Aunt Sooty's Neighbor", "The Efficiency Expert", "Slowly I Turn", and "The Slowest Gun in the West".

Auf die Frage "Was möchtest Du mal werden, wenn du groß bist" antwortete Matthias Reuter als Kind meist mit der Gegenfrage "Wie groß muss das denn genau sein?" Man muss es ja nicht übertreiben. Darum ist er heute auch Kleinkünstler, denn er weiß: Humor ist oft eine Frage der Perspektive. Und von unten nach oben lacht es sich viel herzlicher als umgekehrt. Warum trotzdem alle dauernd nach oben wollen, hat er nie verstanden. So bleibt er am Boden und besieht sich von dort aus die Vorturner, Vorbilder und Vordenker des Landes.

Schon seit etlichen Jahren wäre der Dezember ohne Priols Tilt nur halb so schön. Auch dieses Jahr gibt es alles, was man über die vergangenen 12 Monate in Sachen Politik und Gesellschaft wissen muss. Schonungslos und trotzdem lustig, kredenzt Urban Priol eine Sylvesterbowle für Hirn und Herz. Ob Merkel, Trump oder AfD, keiner bleibt verschont, wenn es heißt: Abschlussbesprechung! Ein langes Jahr kurzweilig eingepackt vom Meister des politischen Kabaretts. So ist auch Tilt 2018 ein absoluter Pflichttermin für alle, die noch Spaß verstehen, auch wenn nicht alles lustig war.

Weihnachten kann auch lustig sein, bei diesem Hörbuch lachen Sie sich keinen Ast - sondern gleich 'ne ganze Tanne. Wenn wir Mitte August in den Supermärkten Lebkuchen und Spekulatius entdecken, dann wissen wir: "Die sind dieses Jahr verdammt spät dran!" Ende November mutieren Einkaufszentren zum Fest der Hiebe - besinnungslos besinnliche Glühweinjunkies stressen sich durch die Festtagsvorbereitungen und lamettieren sinnigen Unsinn über Weihnachten.