Community Calendar for the Midlands, April 20 - The State

Community Calendar for the Midlands, April 20 - The State

Community Calendar for the Midlands, April 20The StateTour begins at The Oxford at Hunters Run (Blythewood); featured communities include Cobblestone Park, Lake Carolina, Lexington Villas, Saluda River Club and Springhill Lake. Free plan books at http://www.columbiabuilders.com. IRIS FLOWER SHOW: 1-4 p.m ...

'Nikki And Sara Live' Renewed For A Second Season - Huffington Post - Huffington Post (satire)

'Nikki And Sara Live' Renewed For A Second Season - Huffington PostHuffington Post (satire)Maria Bamford. Maria Bamford's unique, off-kilter stand-up, which features dimensions of characters rarely seen in a comedy club, has earned her a rightful place as one of the patron saints of comedy today. .... Kelly Oxford. Kelly Oxford was ...and more »

CALENDAR: Comedy Night at Hamden K of C, Bird Walk at Eli Whitney Museum - New Haven Register

CALENDAR: Comedy Night at Hamden K of C, Bird Walk at Eli Whitney MuseumNew Haven RegisterOxford Town Hall, Oxford Garden Club meeting with Susan Quincy of Kellogg Environmental Center to talk about school gardens, 7 p.m. April 23, $5 for nonmembers, 203-888-3422, 486 Oxford Road, Oxford; 203-888-2543. Eagle Landing State Park, ...and more »

Gauteng Gig Guide - April 19, 2013 - Independent Online

Independent OnlineGauteng Gig Guide - April 19, 2013Independent OnlinelSlippery 'n Wet: Fabio & Moon at ESP, 84 Oxford Rd cnr Eton Str, Ferndale, Randburg. 7pm. ... lJazz Africa Club hosts Mainline Ngobeni and Badimo Jazz Band with DJs Benny Masala, 3pm, free admission, food and drinks sold inside, Akasia Town Hall, next ...

Things to Do, April 19-26 - Cornell Chronicle

Cornell ChronicleThings to Do, April 19-26Cornell ChronicleThe Museum Club hosts a reception April 20, 8-11 p.m. for the Student Arts Showcase, on display through April 21. The reception includes student dance, music and comedy performances; art activities; refreshments and a “best hair” competition ...

Tig Notaro Talks Double Mastectomy, Being Present On Conan (VIDEO) - Huffington Post (satire)

Tig Notaro Talks Double Mastectomy, Being Present On Conan (VIDEO)Huffington Post (satire)Maria Bamford. Maria Bamford's unique, off-kilter stand-up, which features dimensions of characters rarely seen in a comedy club, has earned her a rightful place as one of the patron saints of comedy today. .... Kelly Oxford. Kelly Oxford was ...

Entertainment Calendar 04/18/13 - Leader-Telegram

Entertainment Calendar 04/18/13Leader-Telegram715-832-7529. ECCT presents “Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse,” 7:30 p.m., The Oxford, 1814 Oxford Ave., Eau Claire, $8-12. 715-839-8877 or ecct.org. Weekend Comedy, 8 p.m., Fanny Hill Dinner Theatre, 3919 Crescent Ave. $25.99 to $43.99. 715-836-8184 or ...

Thursday's TV Best Bets - Mansfield News Journal

Thursday's TV Best BetsMansfield News JournalIt slides “Person of Interest” back an hour, making room for more laughs, including two episodes of TV's best comedy. In the first, Sheldon is accused of sexual harassment. He soon ... Ever since graduating from Oxford, he had traveled the world, as a ...and more »

John le Carré Has Not Mellowed With Age - New York Times

New York TimesJohn le Carré Has Not Mellowed With AgeNew York TimesWhen le Carré received an honorary degree from Oxford last summer, the Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was on hand to receive one as well. In her speech, she ... “Calling him a spy writer is like calling Joseph Conrad a sea writer, or Jane ...and more »

No point in heckling: standup comedy at the cinema

Can the raucous experience of a live comedy club survive when it's shown at the cinema? Brian Logan investigates a new experiment Friday night at Cineworld Wandsworth, south London, and people are filing in to see the nail-biting psych-thriller Trance and the carnival of pulchritudinous teen flesh that is Spring Breakers . Not me. Oh no. I'm here to watch a film about other people watching ...

Greek theatre drew scholar Kathryn Bosher, rowing moved her - Globe and Mail

Globe and MailGreek theatre drew scholar Kathryn Bosher, rowing moved herGlobe and MailAmong a handful of scholars to research the ancient origins of comedy in Sicily and southern Italy, then western outposts of the Greek empire, she was equally at home with the raunchy, sexually charged humour of Aristophanes as with the crystalline ...

Chris Tucker is ready to give you his all

The comedian and actor is back on the stand-up circuit after his recent role in ‘Silver Linings Playbook.’

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APRIL 17 SCAD Style, conversation 11:30 a.m. April 17. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Savannah College of Art and Design will host SCAD Style 2013 through April 19.

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News Corp to call entertainment company 21st Century Fox (Reuters) - News Corp said on Tuesday it will call its newly independent entertainment company 21st Century Fox after the media conglomerate splits later this year. The name 21st Century Fox - playing off the company's film studio 20th Century Fox - replaces the previously announced name, Fox Group. ...

'Someone had to do it' - Steve Coogan admits to strip club research for The Look Of Love

Steve Coogan tonight admitted he visited a lot of strip clubs to research his latest role as porn baron Paul Raymond.        

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Anna Friel, Steve Coogan, Tamsin Egerton and Chris Addison arriving at the UK premiere of The Look of Love at the Curzon Soho, London. Picture: Ian West/PA Wire

Steve Coogan visited strip clubs “to do a lot of research” for Soho-set film

Anna Friel, Steve Coogan, Tamsin Egerton and Chris Addison arriving at the UK premiere of The Look of Love at the Curzon Soho, London. Picture: Ian West/PA Wire

Comedy Store

There’s no doubt about it, the Comedy Store is the daddy of all comedy clubs, and what most other gigs strive to be. Seemingly as old as London itself, the club has been instrumental in the growth of alternative comedy, and still to this day hosts stunning shows most nights of the week.

Lyn Jones vows Exiles will return but relegation cuts deep

They deserved better – infinitely better, as anyone with a beating rugby heart would happily agree – but when London Welsh yielded their Premiership status against Northampton in Oxford yesterday, it was as much in the spirit of black comedy as of grand defiance. Directors quitting the board, hot rumours over the position of the chief executive, the last-minute withdrawal of the wonderfully ...

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LONDON, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- "Britain, Britain, Britain" - this proud country is now the subject of the funniest and most outrageous slot game on the web; Little Britain, based on the ...