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The American Comedian Who Became a Funnyman in China
4+ hour, 31+ min ago (834+ words) The comedian Jesse Appell, a fixture of China's burgeoning stand-up comedy scene, demonstrates his tea prowess in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. The Boston native turned his fascination with Chinese culture into a decade-long comedy career there. He tells the…...
Jiaoying Summers brings sharp cultural comedy to Southern Arizona
2+ mon, 13+ hour ago (985+ words) Jiaoying Summers performing at her first special 'What Specie are You?' that streams on Hulu. Summers will be at 191 Toole in Downtown Tucson on Jan. 8. TUCSON " Jiaoying Summers always wanted to be onstage. She just didn't know stand-up comedy existed....
Mob Descends on a Comedy Club After a Comic Jokes About a Politician
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (1268+ words) NEW DELHI " The joke was nothing too unusual for political comedy. But in India, where there is little room anymore to make fun of politicians without drawing court cases or mob violence, all hell quickly broke loose. NEW DELHI " The…...
‘Novocaine’ Review: Sticks and Stones Will Never Hurt Him
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (1331+ words) If we're in a post- "John Wick" era, when action cinema has been revitalized and modernized " more bullets and blood, more choreographed spectacle " the thrills of the genre have strangely edged closer and closer to that earliest of movie pleasures:…...