Are you guys ready for the final night of semifinals? Five more amazing comedians will be moving forward tonight, and after that, we'll start getting to know these contestants on a truly personal level. Who'll be my comedian crush this season? This episode will help me narrow it down!
At Universal Studios, we see contestants give each other some bro-hugs backstage. Andi Smith never expected to make it this far -- she didn't even bring clothes!
Roseanne refers to the show as a "comedy rumble," and Anthony Jeselnik tries to calm nerves down backstage by stating that he's "rooting for five of you!" Soon after, he introduces our judges -- Keenen, Roseanne, and Norm. Also, once again, Wanda Sykes will be mentoring.
Andi is nervous about which jokes to perform, and says she "doesn't know whether to continue with the mom stuff." As per usual, Wanda gives her a weirdly...
At Universal Studios, we see contestants give each other some bro-hugs backstage. Andi Smith never expected to make it this far -- she didn't even bring clothes!
Roseanne refers to the show as a "comedy rumble," and Anthony Jeselnik tries to calm nerves down backstage by stating that he's "rooting for five of you!" Soon after, he introduces our judges -- Keenen, Roseanne, and Norm. Also, once again, Wanda Sykes will be mentoring.
Andi is nervous about which jokes to perform, and says she "doesn't know whether to continue with the mom stuff." As per usual, Wanda gives her a weirdly...
- 8/26/2015
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
Are you guys ready for the final night of semifinals? Five more amazing comedians will be moving forward tonight, and after that, we'll start getting to know these contestants on a truly personal level. Who'll be my comedian crush this season? This episode will help me narrow it down!
At Universal Studios, we see contestants give each other some bro-hugs backstage. Andi Smith never expected to make it this far -- she didn't even bring clothes!
Roseanne refers to the show as a "comedy rumble," and Anthony Jeselnik tries to calm nerves down backstage by stating that he's "rooting for five of you!" Soon after, he introduces our judges -- Keenen, Roseanne, and Norm. Also, once again, Wanda Sykes will be mentoring.
Andi is nervous about which jokes to perform, and says she "doesn't know whether to continue with the mom stuff." As per usual, Wanda gives her a weirdly...
At Universal Studios, we see contestants give each other some bro-hugs backstage. Andi Smith never expected to make it this far -- she didn't even bring clothes!
Roseanne refers to the show as a "comedy rumble," and Anthony Jeselnik tries to calm nerves down backstage by stating that he's "rooting for five of you!" Soon after, he introduces our judges -- Keenen, Roseanne, and Norm. Also, once again, Wanda Sykes will be mentoring.
Andi is nervous about which jokes to perform, and says she "doesn't know whether to continue with the mom stuff." As per usual, Wanda gives her a weirdly...
- 8/26/2015
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
Own: The Oprah Winfrey Network has greenlit to more installments of Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious, which will premiere on Saturday, January 4 and January 11, at 10/9c. The first 2 installments in the series aired over the summer and were clearly a success. Taped before a live studio audience at Harpo Studios in Chicago, the specials were hosted and produced by Sykes and Page Hurwitz's Push It Productions, in conjunction with Harpo Studios, and featured appearances by female stand-ups, including Kym Whitley, Andi Smith, Gloria Bigelow, Marina Franklin, Tracey Ashley, Carmen Lynch and Dominique Witten. In addition to performing...
- 11/15/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Plenty of times in her long career, comedian Wanda Sykes has heard -- and combated -- the stereotype that women can't be funny. For her new special "Herlarious," Sykes brings up this stereotype to fellow comedians Gloria Bigelow, Andi Smith and Dominique, who launch into a debate about whether or not it stems from male comedians being intimidated by women in comedy.
"You have to be so strong to be a female comic and I think... maybe that's intimidating," Dominique says.
"Who am I intimidating?" Bigelow disagrees. "I think it's just that same kind of misogyny thing that's everywhere else. Honestly. Why wouldn't it be in the comedy club? It's in everything else."
"Don't you think, though, that boys want to be the funny ones?" Smith poses.
"I think it's a mix," Sykes offers. "It is intimidating when you see a woman on stage -- especially killing, doing it well...
"You have to be so strong to be a female comic and I think... maybe that's intimidating," Dominique says.
"Who am I intimidating?" Bigelow disagrees. "I think it's just that same kind of misogyny thing that's everywhere else. Honestly. Why wouldn't it be in the comedy club? It's in everything else."
"Don't you think, though, that boys want to be the funny ones?" Smith poses.
"I think it's a mix," Sykes offers. "It is intimidating when you see a woman on stage -- especially killing, doing it well...
- 7/13/2013
- by Lisa Capretto
- Huffington Post
As a comedian, Andi Smith knows firsthand that some jokes soar and some jokes flop -- and some are downright disasters. During a recent episode of "Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious," Smith recalled an experience where she says she managed to offend an entire state with the first seven words of her opening act.
Smith was in West Virginia performing at a comedy club when her joke got her into trouble. "I can't go back to West Virginia," Smith tells Sykes and her fellow comics in the video. "I cannot go back. I am kicked out."
Only a few people had shown up to see Smith perform that evening, so upon seeing such a small audience, she decided to center a joke around the low attendance.
"I thought it would be really funny to say, 'Where's everybody else? Trapped in a mine?'" Smith remembers, referencing the 2010 coal mine explosion that...
Smith was in West Virginia performing at a comedy club when her joke got her into trouble. "I can't go back to West Virginia," Smith tells Sykes and her fellow comics in the video. "I cannot go back. I am kicked out."
Only a few people had shown up to see Smith perform that evening, so upon seeing such a small audience, she decided to center a joke around the low attendance.
"I thought it would be really funny to say, 'Where's everybody else? Trapped in a mine?'" Smith remembers, referencing the 2010 coal mine explosion that...
- 7/8/2013
- by Lisa Capretto
- Huffington Post
When Wanda Sykes gets together with several of her favorite up-and-coming comedians, it's bound to be a hilarious and unpredictably good time. On her all-new Own special, "Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious," Sykes and some of comedy's funniest females take the stage to bring on the laughs and also sit down for roundtable discussions on topics ranging from their biggest stand-up flops to misogyny in the comedy clubs.
In this clip from the first episode of "Herlarious," Sykes is joined by Gloria Bigelow, Andi Smith and Dominique Whitten for a candid conversation about a term they feel shouldn't even exist in the comedy industry: "female comedian." Adding the distinction "female" is completely unnecessary, they say.
"A comedian is a comedian," Whitten says. "Why does it have to be separated?"
"There's no 'doctresses,'" Smith points out dryly. She then recalls a time when she arrived at a Houston club to perform...
In this clip from the first episode of "Herlarious," Sykes is joined by Gloria Bigelow, Andi Smith and Dominique Whitten for a candid conversation about a term they feel shouldn't even exist in the comedy industry: "female comedian." Adding the distinction "female" is completely unnecessary, they say.
"A comedian is a comedian," Whitten says. "Why does it have to be separated?"
"There's no 'doctresses,'" Smith points out dryly. She then recalls a time when she arrived at a Houston club to perform...
- 7/5/2013
- by Lisa Capretto
- Huffington Post
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