Comedy Central to Release THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH PRESENTS: THE DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL TWITTER LIBRARY
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah‘s acclaimed, interactive library, “The Daily Show Presents: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library,” will soon be IMMORTALIZED in print! Written by the writers of THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAHwith daily inspiration from the Commander-in-Tweet and an introduction written by Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, a division of Penguin Random House, will release THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH Presents: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library on Tuesday, July 31.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library book will take the form of a proper exhibition catalog based on the brick and mortar exhibition that preceded it. The book’s content will feature both library favorites, and brand-new exhibits. The book will include, but is not limited to:
The Masterpieces: In-depth critical appreciations of history’s most important Trump tweets, from “Very Stable Genius” to “Covfefe” to “Trump Tower Taco Bowl/I Love Hispanics!”
The Greatest Battles:@realDonaldTrump’s brutal Twitter campaigns against fellow Republicans, Diet Coke, women generally, and Kristen Stewart specifically.
Sad! A Retrospective: A compendium of the many people, events, and twists of fate that apparently made Donald Trump feel this human emotion.
Trumpstradamus: DJT’s amazing 140-character predictions for the future.
The Hall of Nicknames: The greatest of Trump’s monikers, from “Lyin’ Ted” to “Low I.Q. Crazy Mika,” accompanied by original caricature artwork.
Trump vs. Trump: You’re going to want to sit for this one. Donald Trump has sometimes been known to contradict himself.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Librarywill also include an introduction by Daily Show host and executive producer, Trevor Noah, as well as a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham; full-color photography from its previous pop-up exhibitions; and even a place for readers to add their own future Trump tweet highlights – because he is making new Twitter history every day.
In June 2017, just steps away from Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, Comedy Central’s THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH opened “The Daily Show Presents: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library,” a 4,000-square-foot museum space that gave the 45thpresident and his amazing Twitter legacy the respect they deserve. Deemed a “smash hit” (The Washington Post) and “the most impressive satire of the current administration to date” (HuffPost), the library was a remarkable success with capacity crowds over its three-day run. Later that year, the library was staged once again in Chicago at Union Station’s Burlington Room.
The library will next travel to San Francisco, CA in June where it will be staged during the second annual Comedy Central Presents Clusterfest, a three-day comedy and music festival. This year’s festival will be headlined by Jon Stewart, Amy Schumer, The Lonely Island, and Trevor Noah. Now in its second year, Clusterfest will once again take place in the heart of San Francisco at Civic Center Plaza and Bill Graham Civic Auditorium from Friday, June 1 to Sunday, June 3, 2018.
‘Saturday Night Live’ Sees A Ratings Climb With Appearances From Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan, Donald Glover And More!
The May 19 season finale of Saturday Night Live, with host Tina Fey and musical guest Nicki Minaj, averaged a 4.5 Live+Same day household rating in the metered markets and a 1.9 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local people meters.
That was up notch from last week’s episode hosted by Amy Schumer (4.3, 1.8) and SNL‘s best overnights since the April 7 telecast, with host Chadwick Boseman and musical guest Cardi B (4.6, 2.0).
Still, last night’s show, which included appearances by Alec Baldwin, Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Jerry Seinfeld, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Rock, Fred Armisen, Anne Hathaway, Tracy Morgan, Donald Glover, Lin-Manuel Miranda and John Goodman, was off from this year’s season highs, posted by the Jan. 17 episode hosted by Will Ferrell (4.9, 2.3) and from last season’s finale hosted by Dwayne Johnson (5.3, 2.6).
On This Day In Comedy… In 1962 Comedian And Actor Gilbert Esquivel Was Born
On this day in comedy on May 21, 1962, Comedian, Actor, Gilbert Esquivel was born in Parma, Idaho
Esquivel’s parents were migrant workers who kept the family traveling. Eventually, they settled down in Pacoima, California, where young Gilbert became a gangbanger. When he figured out his quality of life aspects would be low based on his lifestyle choice he decided to pull a 180 and get his positive on. He began going to church to hang out with a girl he liked and ended up accepting Jesus as his savior. Next step towards his salvation – he became a comedian. Many of his first bits revolved around his gang life experiences. Why not? It was universal. Who didn’t know a gangbanger?
Gilbert Esquivel found work easily after winning a high-profile comedy competition at the oldest comedy club in Southern California, The Ice House, his first year as a comedian. He came in during the comedy boom and took advantage of the television available. He appeared on a multitude of shows including Que Loco and BET’s Comic View (the first Latin to reach the semi-finals) as well as performing nationally in clubs, prisons and colleges. His comedy style appealed to all audiences; which was evident by his rousing reactions at the Apollo Theater and Caesar’s Palace.
Esquivel is one of the country’s leading Christian Comedians even though he doesn’t classify his comedy by that label. He views himself as a Christian doing comedy. Either way, he’s a funny role model for the nation’s youth. That’s the goal. To show kids it’s more fun to laugh and live a positive life than to cause misery and end up behind bars or under a tombstone.
We just discovered the news that comedian Mickey Gordon has passed away. Gordon was recently one of the cast members from Raising Whitley(OWN network) and if you recall, she had had a massive stroke last year.
Mickey was in the hospital for months slowly recovering from a stroke and partial paralysis.
In addition to an aspiring acting career, Mickey was a Veteran, she served our country as a US NAVY Sailor.
Details on her funeral arrangements coming soon.
Here is an episode featuring Mickey in ‘Raising Whitley’ on the OWN Network.
Comedian Spanky Brown Dies At Age 56!
Comic Spanky Brown, a frequent Knoxville visitor and Memphis native, has died. He was 56.
Brown, whose real name was Byron Yeldell, died May 11 in Virginia, according to an obituary notice.
He was due to come to Knoxville on June 11 for a gig at the International, his website shows.
Many will remember the night in 2013 when he opened for Dave Chappelle at the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville.
Brown delivered a raucous set ahead of Chappelle, but some in the crowd turned unruly and began heckling when the headliner took over. Brown tried to settle the audience down so Chappelle could carry out his show uninterrupted.
Comics and comedy clubs have been paying tribute to Brown.
“It is with shock and extreme sadness to announce the death of Spanky Brown,” the Comedy House in Columbia, S.C., announced last week. “He was a beloved friend who was one of the best comedians to ever perform in the Comedy House. He found his way into our hearts in 1997 at an Open Mic at the Comedy House Theatre in Savannah, Ga. The world is just not as funny without Spanky Brown.”
The Comedy Zone in Charlotte, N.C., will pay homage June 6.
About Brown they posted on May 17: “The comedy world has lost one of its most beloved family members. One of the most genuine and genuinely funny people on the planet. Join us on June 6th as we celebrate the life of Spanky Brown. 100% of ticket sales will go to his family.”
Sean McCarthy, who documents and reports on comedy and comics in America on The Comic’s Comic website, praised Brown for his willingness to help a young comic out.
“Truth was, Spanky made sure he helped others work their way up the comedy ladder. As a testament to his loving and generous spirit, many comedians talked of him this weekend like a big brother or uncle, describing how often he’d get them gigs, either opening for him, or vouching for them with other bookers,” McCarthy wrote May 13.
His TV credits included appearances on Discovery ID and Speed Network, as well as performances on BET’s Comic View, according to McCarthy.
Source: WBIR
Watch some of his stand-up below;
‘L.A.’s Finest,’ The Bad Boy Spin-Off, With Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba, Eyes New Home At Charter
L.A.’s Finest, the pilot many insiders expected to be the biggest slam-dunk of the season, could find a new home at Charter Communications.
Sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter that the company is in preliminary talks to potentially pick up the Bad Boys II TV spinoff starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba.
Charter and Sony Pictures Television Studios, the company behind the former NBC pilot, both declined comment.
Sources say Charter has been actively in the market for scripted originals after hiring Pope at the beginning of the year. Conversations between Charter and Sony for L.A.’s Finest are said to bein the preliminary stages. It’s unclear what budget level Charter is looking for given that L.A.’s Finest, with its star-studded cast, big name producer (in Jerry Bruckheimer) and a licensing fee to potentially pay to Sony, is considered a pricey swing.
L.A.’s Finest, which saw Union reprise her role from the second Bad Boys feature film, was the front-runner all pilot season given its built in premise, star and producing team, which included the feature film franchise’s Jerry Bruckheimer. Union also personally recruited Alba — who hadn’t done TV in years — to be her co-star. The drama landed at NBC with a sizable penalty and was among the network’s first pilot pickups.
Sources note that it was NBC’s former president of entertainment Jennifer Salke who bought L.A.’s Finest when she was at the network but given her move to run Amazon Studios, the drama lost its champion.
The drama revolves around free-spirited former DEA agent Syd Burnett (Union), who has a fresh start in her new job as an LAPD detective. She is partnered with Nancy McKenna (Alba), a working mom who can’t help but look at Syd’s freedom with some grass-is-greener envy. These two have totally different lifestyles and approaches, but they both are at the top of their fields in the action-packed, character-driven procedural. Ernie Hudson, Ryan McPartlin, Zach Gilford and Duane Martin co-starred. The Blacklist duo Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis penned the script and exec produced alongside Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed, Jeff Gaspin, Jeff Morrone, Doug Belgrad, Union, Alba and Anton Cropper, the latter of whom directed.
Charter, meanwhile, in January hired former NBC and Chernin Entertainment exec Katherine Pope to head original content and overee the cable giant’s new effort to create its own scripted programming. The company previously announced partnerships with AMC and Viacom, with Pope overseeing those and other forthcoming relationships as the company looked to enter the scripted originals space will oversee those along with future relationships dedicated to its slate of original shows on its own platform as the cable operator looked to retain subscribers in an era of cord cutting.
Should Charter and Sony reach a deal for the show, L.A.’s Finest would be the latest to jump networks in an upfronts season that saw NBC rescue Brooklyn Nine-Nine after Fox’s cancellation and Fox revive ABC’s Last Man Standing. Key to both deals was the fact that the respective networks’ studio counterpart owned each series.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
On This Day In Comedy… In 1967 Comedian And Actress Sommore Was Born!
On this day in comedy on May 16, 1967, Comedian, Actress, Sommore (Lori Ann Rambough) born in Trenton, NJ
A Catholic school graduate, Sommore’s original path was business administration, which she studied at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, GA, but somewhere in there, comedy became her business. The comedy community first took notice when she came from nowhere and won the prestigious Birdland Comedy Competition in California. Her next major victory was becoming the first female host of BET Comic View in 1995.
Her successful tenure on Comic View established her as one of the top stand-ups in Black comedy. She quickly landed guest-starring sitcom roles (The Hughleys, The Parkers) and appearances on Def Jam, Oprah Winfrey, The Tonight Show Comics Unleashed and Nick Cannon’s Wild N Out.
In 2001 Sommore toured internationally, as ¼ of the Original Queens of Comedy and starred in the film and best-selling comedy DVDs. The other Queens were Miss Laura Hayes, Adele Givens and Mo’Nique. Other films included Friday After Next, Miami Tail, Soul Plane Something New and Dirty Laundry. She’s done comedy specials, kicked knowledge in documentaries (Why We Laugh) and roasted Flavor Flav.
Sommore won Celebrity Fit Club on television, hosted Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta and tours regularly as a top stand-up and comedy attraction.
On This Day In Comedy… In 1949 Comedian, Writer, And Actor Franklyn Ajaye Was Born
On this day in comedy on May 13, 1949, Comedian, Writer, Actor, Franklyn Ajaye was born in Brooklyn, New York
Dubbed “The Jazz Comedian” by his admiring peers for his improvisational comedic style, Ajaye was always more artist than fame seeker. A contemporary of mega-star, Richard Pryor, Ajaye shunned the confining and debilitating effects of stardom after witnessing firsthand those effects had on Pryor the man and comedian. Ajaye disdained being put under the show biz microscope. He just wanted to be funny and get paid for it. Hanging out at comedy clubs when he wasn’t working or with comics he wasn’t working with wasn’t his style.
Ajaye had dropped out of college to become a comedian. His original goal was to become a lawyer, but all that flew out the window when he gave stand-up a try at the encouragement of classmates who thought he was funny and knew law was history. After giving himself a crash course in the art of levity he was ready to work it. Ajaye’s first national recognition was on The Flip Wilson Show in 1973, the same year he released his first comedy album, Franklyn Ajaye, Comedian. In 1974 he debuted on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and dropped his second LP, I’m a Comedian, Seriously.
Franklyn Ajaye’s known as a strong influence among the generations that followed him. He was smart, insightful and above all funny in a broad range of mediums. There were movies: Sweet Revenge, Car Wash, Convoy, Stir Crazy, The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond, Hysterical, Get Crazy, Fraternity Vacation, Hollywood Shuffle, The Wrong Guys, The ‘Burb, The Yakuza and Bridesmaids. Television: Barney Miller, Partners in Crime, Deadwood, The Greenroom. Albums: Don’t Smoke Dope, Fry Your Hair (1977), Plaid Pants and Psychopaths (1986) and Vagabond Jazz & the Abstract Truth (2004) and the book Comic Insights: The Art of Standup Comedy.
In 1997 Ajaye got tired of the whole crazy scene and went south. So south he ended up in Australia, where he stayed. He made occasional trips to the United States for comedy work, but other than that he made his final when Ajaye saw just enough and stated, ‘as long as Americas going in this direction, I’m going in another” and he left for good; carving out a comfortable niche for himself in Sydney and Melbourne in particular by appearing on the shows, The Panel and Thank God You’re Here. He also mounted one man shows in his new home at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival: “Nothing but The Truth”, Talkin Vagabond Jazz”, and “Vagabond Jazz & The Abstract Truth”.
Franklyn Ajaye is a two-time Emmy nominee for Outstanding Writing in a Variety Series for his work on In Living Color and Politically Incorrect.
On This Day In Comedy… In 1969 Comedic Actress And Director Kim Fields Was Born!
On this day in comedy on May 12, 1969, Comedic Actress, Director, Kim Victoria Fields was born New York City, New York
Thanks to actress/stage mother Chip Fields, Kim got an early start in show business. Following a craft honing period of performing on commercials, TV movies (Have I Got a Christmas for You) and guest starring roles in sitcoms (Good Times), Fields got her first co-starring role in the Demond Wilson / Denise Nicholas show, Baby, I’m Back. The return didn’t last long, and Fields was back to making guest appearances (Different Strokes, Mork & Mindy) until she learned The Facts of Life.
The part of “Tootie” put Fields on the sitcom map. She had a catchphrase (“We’re in troou-ble”) and a following. Why not? The Facts of Life was a ratings bonanza for NBC from 1979 to 1988 (spinning off several specials) and allowed Fields to branch off into other areas of show business, such as recording. Fields released a disco single (“He Loves Me He Loves Me Not”) and the R&B hit, “Dear Michael” while on The Facts of Life.
Once the show ended, Fields took time off to complete her education at Pepperdine University. Then in 1993 she returned with a vengeance on the Fox sitcom, Living Single, co-starring with Queen Latifah, Erika Alexander and Kim Coles. They played four friends doing what the title says – living single. During the show’s run Fields took her skills learned at Pepperdine and started directing, beginning with a couple of episodes of Living Single. She then transitioned into a 26-episode run of directing, Kenan & Kel, then helming installments of Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, his Meet the Brown’s and BET’s Let’s Stay Together.
Once Living Single went off the air, Fields started rapping with the group Impromp 2. She also went back to guest starring (One on One, The Steve Harvey Show, The Drew Carey Show, Eve). In 2015 she began a short stint on The Real Housewives of Atlanta and she competed on Dancing with the Stars in 2016.
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On This Day In Comedy… In 1987 ‘Uptown Comedy Express’ Premiered!
On this day in comedy on May 9, 1987, Uptown Comedy Express premiered
Taped Live at the Ebony Showcase Theater in Los Angeles as part of the On Location series, this 1-hour comedy special was produced by Eddie Murphy Productions and featured standup and sketch performances by up & coming comedians Chris Rock, Marsha Warfield, Barry Sobel, Arsenio Hall and Robert Townsend. The quintet portrayed night club employees with the MC played by Ray Murphy (Eddie Murphy’s Uncle Ray).
Directed by Russ Petranto, Uptown Comedy Express was written by Ilunga Dell, Margaret Oberman and the five featured comedians. There are uncredited cameos by Jasmine Guy, Paul Mooney, Magic Johnson, Gladys Knight and Eddie Murphy as audience members. Mark Corry and Clint Smith were the producers of the special and played servers on the show. Eddie Murphy was executive producer with musical guests; Eddie Murphy favorites – The Busboys.
