Comedy
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Comedian Liz Miele has been honing her comedic skills since age 16.
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Soup Man
July 16-17: Since 2004, comedian Joel McHale has roasted celebrities and pop culture as host of E!’s no-holds-barred weekly recap show The Soup.
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The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad
The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad (Wyatt-MacKenzie) by Joel Schwartzberg is a collection of 40 essays chronicling the Montclair resident’s experience with the unsettling see-saw of divorce.
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I Shudder
Paul Rudnick, a contributor to the New Yorker and other magazines, is also a playwright and screenwriter. But all you really need to know is that he is hilarious.
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A Forum Rare For Colbert
Nov 1: Comedian and Montclair resident Stephen Colbert has made truthiness his career, bringing us the nightly “news” as the satirically right-wing host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report.
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Family Guy
August 20 & 29: Chester resident and popular comedian Jim Breuer performs at the Mayo Center for the Performing Arts on August 20, and at the Borgata Hotel and Casino’s Music Box on August 29.
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Delightfully Scrambled Egghead Demetri Martin
An interview with comic Demetri Martin.
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Hardy-Har-Maher
Comedian, liberal firebrand, Cornell grad, and River Vale native Bill Maher preached to a sold-out concert hall at NJPAC in Newark on Friday night.
There probably wasn't a Republican in the house, but there certainly were Catholics and plenty of other Christians, plus people who take prescription drugs, heterosexuals, homosexuals, Hillary-ites and Obamaphiles, and most likely some NASCAR fans.
And they all laughed. And for good reason. Maher is an equal opportunity lacerator. But more than that, he's a newshound, and very funny.
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