Rochester’s comedy scene will get a rare spotlight on national TV next week, when Comedy Central airs the latest episode of “Hart of the City,” comedian Kevin Hart’s program showcasing vibrant comedy cities across the United States.
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Mike Birbiglia to headline Rochester Fringe
American comedian, storyteller, director, and actor Mike Birbiglia will be this year’s KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival comedy headliner. The show, “An Evening with Mike Birbiglia” will take place Friday, September 20, at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre.
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Nazareth College Arts Center promises variety in 2019-20 season
No two events are the same in the forthcoming season at the Nazareth College Arts Center. The 2019-20 season boasts a variety of entertainers from many different artistic disciplines, and with a wide swathe of cultural perspectives.
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‘Trailer Park Boys’ bring Christmas show to Roc
Mike Smith, in his signature Bubbles voice, promises the show will be a naughty one.
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Daniel reviews ‘This Year’s Models’
Rochester Fringe Festival is to be applauded for booking Woody Battaglia’s “This Year’s Models,” a mini-festival featuring local comedians. On the third night of the series, what was a strong showing of comedy became an unmitigated success with headliner Malcolm Whitfield’s set.
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Comedian Marlon Wayans is getting to the good part
African Americans do travel: actor Marlon Wayans discusses becoming a comedian, working NBC vs Netflix, and learning to laugh at yourself.
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Film review: ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’
As the espionage action begins to overpower the comedy, the film’s violence turns shockingly brutal at times, leading some of those laughs to catch in the throat. The film can be uneven in laughs and thrills, but when Kate McKinnon’s on screen that’s almost good enough.
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Eddie Izzard to headline Rochester Fringe
The English comedian will present his show, “Eddie Izzard: Believe Me,” on Friday, September 21, 7 p.m., at Kodak Hall. Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. on Thursday, June 14.
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Frank reviews Left for Dead Improv and ‘Flatfoots, Floozies & Murder’
Left for Dead Improv split my guts with its astute deadpan and quick wit. In front of a packed house at Writers & Books, the group took shots at individual stories whose characters had maxed out on their quirk quotient. As they moved along, it got more complex as if trying to confound one another, […]
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Web series ‘Dark Justice’ finds satire in tension
There are any number of ways to bring attention to a hot-button issue, and among the trickiest methods to pull off gracefully is satire. When the subject you’re looking at is the current state of race relations in our country, the stumbling blocks are innumerable. But that didn’t dissuade filmmaker and Rochester native Mike Gerbino […]
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Downton downsized
With its multitude of characters and intricate plot lines, Downton Abbey can sometimes be difficult to follow. But when Luke Kempner takes the appropriately august Kilbourn Hall stage to perform “Upside Downton,” you will only have to focus on one man. Of course it’s not quite that simple. Mr. Carson, Lady Mary, Mrs. Hughes, the […]
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Film Review: “Wild Tales”
An exhilarating, wickedly funny anthology film, the Oscar-nominated “Wild Tales” presents six separate tales centered around acts of unbridled revenge. Each story follows a protagonist who takes their desire for vengeance against the injustices of life (both large and small) to outrageous extremes: from its opening, about passengers aboard a plane realizing they all have […]
