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Alex Edelman
Alex Edelman (born March 20, 1989) is an American stand-up comedian based in New York City. He is an internationally touring comic and found early success in the United Kingdom where he was named Best Newcomer at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has toured three shows since 2014: ''Millennial'' (2014–2015), ''Everything Handed to You'' (2015–2016), and ''Just for Us'' (2018–2020). Biography Edelman was born in Boston to Cheryl, a real estate lawyer, and Elazer R. Edelman, a biomedical engineer, cardiologist, and professor. He has two brothers, Austin, and Israeli Olympian Adam Edelman. He was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts. He began performing stand-up at age 15. A baseball fan, he also worked for the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers associations as a teenager. Edelman grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family and, following high school, spent a year in a yeshiva in Jerusalem. During his time there, he helped to establish the city's first comedy club Off the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh Comedy Award
The Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards (formerly the Perrier Comedy Awards, and also briefly known by other names for sponsorship reasons) are presented to the comedy shows deemed to have been the best at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Established in 1981, they are the most prestigious comedy prize in the United Kingdom. The awards have been directed and produced by Nica Burns since 1984. Format The main prize, which was for many years the only prize, and is now known as the Best Comedy Show, is awarded "for the funniest, most outstanding, up-and-coming comic / comedy show / act" at the Fringe. The winner receives a cash prize of £10,000. The Best Newcomer Award category was introduced in 1992 for Harry Hill, and is given to the best "performer or act who is performing their first full-length show (50 minutes or more)". The prize is £5,000. Newcomers are eligible for the Best Comedy Show Award, but no act is allowed to appear on both shortlists in the same year. A f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passover Seder
The Passover Seder (; he, סדר פסח , 'Passover order/arrangement'; yi, סדר ) is a ritual feast at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. It is conducted throughout the world on the eve of the 15th day of [ isan in the Hebrew calendar (i.e., at the start of the 15th; a Hebrew day begins at sunset). The day falls in late March or in April of the Gregorian calendar; Passover lasts for seven days in Israel and eight days outside Israel. Jews traditionally observe one seder if in Israel and two (one on each of the first two nights) if in the Jewish diaspora. The Seder is a ritual involving a retelling of the story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt, taken from the Book of Exodus (''Shemot'') in the Jewish Torah. The Seder itself is based on the Biblical verse commanding Jews to retell the story of the Exodus from Egypt: "You shall tell your child on that day, saying, 'It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night Seder
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Teenage Bounty Hunters
''Teenage Bounty Hunters'' is an American teen comedy-drama streaming television series created by Kathleen Jordan for Netflix which was released on August 14, 2020. In October 2020, the series was canceled after one season. Blake McCormick and Jenji Kohan are executive producers, along with Tara Herrmann and Robert Sudduth serving as showrunner. Premise After denting their father's pickup truck, high school students and fraternal twins Sterling and Blair Wesley fall into bounty hunting for grizzled bounty hunter Bowser Simmons in order to pay for the truck's repair, and without their parents' knowledge. Cast and characters Main * Maddie Phillips as Sterling Wesley, Blair's fraternal twin sister and a student at Willingham Academy who is trying to balance her life as a bounty hunter with being fellowship leader at her Christian high school * Anjelica Bette Fellini as Blair Wesley, Sterling's more rebellious fraternal twin sister who also goes to Willingham Academy and who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Indoors (TV Series)
''The Great Indoors'' is an American sitcom television series created by Mike Gibbons, starring Joel McHale that aired on CBS from October 27, 2016 to May 8, 2017. The series is produced by Gibbons Bros. and Shiny Brass Lamp Productions in association with CBS Television Studios, with Gibbons serving as showrunner. Premise Jack Gordon has made a name for himself as an adventure reporter for the magazine ''Outdoor Limits''. His days of exploring the world end when the magazine's founder, Roland, announces its move to web-only publishing and assigns Jack to its headquarters in Chicago to supervise the millennials who make up its online team. Themes The show explores a multigenerational workforce and the generation gaps arising among the tech-savvy Millennial online team, their Gen X supervisor Jack (Joel McHale), and the magazine's baby boomer publisher Roland ( Stephen Fry). Cast Main * Joel McHale as Jack Gordon: a globe-trotting adventure reporter now in charge of his m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. The station controller is Mohit Bakaya. Broadcasting throughout the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands on FM, LW and DAB, and on BBC Sounds, it can be received in the eastern counties of Ireland, northern France and Northern Europe. It is available on Freeview, Sky, and Virgin Media. Radio 4 currently reaches over 10 million listeners, making it the UK's second most-popular radio station after Radio 2. BBC Radio 4 broadcasts news programmes such as '' Today'' and ''The World at One'', heralded on air by the Greenwich Time Signal pips or the chimes of Big Ben. The pips are only accurate on FM, LW, and MW; there is a delay on digital radio of three to five seconds and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsha Shandur
Marsha Shandur (born 1977) is a former radio presenter best known for presenting on Xfm London and Xfm Manchester (as ''Marsha''). Career Shandur presented numerous shows on Xfm during her 8 years at the station before announcing that she was leaving Xfm to live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in January 2011. She was the music supervisor for E4 shows The Inbetweeners and the first two seasons of Made in Chelsea. She also made a podcast for Xfm called ''Marsha Meets...'' in which she has interviewed comedians such as Stewart Lee, Rufus Hound, Greg Davies, Richard Herring and Russell Kane. The Guardian has twice named it one of the world's Top Ten Best Comedy Podcasts. In 2016, Shandur co-authored the book ''Off The Mic: The World's Best Stand Up Comedians Get Serious About Comedy'' with Deborah Frances-White which came out on Bloomsbury Publishing. The book, about the mechanics of stand-up comedy, features new interviews with 42 comedians, including Eddie Izzard, Phill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Frances-White
Deborah Frances-White is a London-based comedian, author and screenwriter. She has both British and Australian citizenship. She hosts the podcasts ''Global Pillage'' and ''The Guilty Feminist''. She wrote the 2019 comedy film Say My Name. Early life Frances-White was born in Australia and adopted at ten days old. She grew up in Brisbane, Queensland. Her family converted to Jehovah’s Witnesses when she was a teenager; Frances-White has since left the community and describes herself as an atheist. During her gap year, she moved to London and later studied English at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. Career Frances-White is one of three directors at the improv theatre company The Spontaneity Shop, which she co-founded with Tom Salinsky in 1996. After developing a number of improvisation formats at The Spontaneity Shop (including the improvised romantic comedy ''DreamDate'' which had a pilot made for ITV), Frances-White turned to stand-up comedy. Her first signific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roast Battle
''Roast Battle'' is a British roast comedy show that is broadcast on Comedy Central. The show is hosted by Jimmy Carr and features comedians facing each other in roast battles. The show was created by American comedians Jeff Ross and Brian Moses and is based on their Comedy Central series '' Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle'' on which Carr has appeared as a contestant. Concept, format and production ''Roast Battle'' is based on '' Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle'', an American television series created by comedians Jeff Ross and Brian Moses that first aired on Comedy Central in 2016. The American series is based on a live show created by Moses and fellow comedian Rell Battle that runs at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles in the comedy club's Belly Room. Jimmy Carr participated as a contestant in ''Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle'' first season. ''Roast Battle'' premiered on Comedy Central in the UK and Ireland in 2018. The show is hosted by Carr and Moses acts as the announcer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live From The BBC
''Live from the BBC'' is a British stand-up comedy series that has aired on the online BBC Three service since 17 February 2016. Three series have aired, both with six episodes. Series one has two comedians per episode (three in episode 5) and series two and three have one comedian per episode. The series is filmed at the BBC Radio Theatre at the Broadcasting House Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast from the building was made on 15 March 1932, and the building was officially opened two months later, on 15 May. The main ... in London. Episodes Series 1 (2016) Series 2 (2017) Series 3 (2018) References External links * * *{{British Comedy Guide, tv, live_from_the_BBC, Live from the BBC 2016 British television series debuts 2010s British comedy television series BBC high definition shows BBC television comedy British stand-up comedy television series English-language televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
