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	<title>Punchline Magazine - Comedy News, Comedy Blog, and all things in Stand Up Comedy</title>
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		<title>Maria Bamford: Plan B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Invisible sentries flank most comedians it seems, guarding them from revealing all of their personality to the audience. Watching Maria Bamford, on the other hand, is like witnessing a full-body scan: She bares her busy brain and every pore and insecurity in Plan B, the DVD, from Stand Up! Records, of her daffy, evocative and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/maria-bamford-plan-b/</link>
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		<title>Leslie Jones: Just wants to make you laugh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Katt Williams was just looking for another female comic for his now-legendary It&#8217;s Pimpin Pimpin tour. What he got was Leslie Jones, a powerhouse presence onstage. The proof is in her new DVD Problem Child.
Comedian Leslie Jones has no reason to be intimidated by the male-dominated comedy world. She is genuinely funny and she can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/leslie-jones-just-wants-to-make-you-laugh/</link>
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		<title>Shane Mauss: Jokes to Make My Parents Proud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, being juvenile can be a good thing. While often associated with being crass, on the other hand, when done right, there can be a childlike charm than proves good-natured and simultaneously devious.
Shane Mauss is all of these things. On Jokes to Make My Parents Proud (Comedy Central Records), Mauss exhibits a very kid-like humor; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/shane-mauss-jokes-to-make-my-parents-proud/</link>
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		<title>Hasan Minhaj: Leaning On Expensive Cars And Getting Paid To Do It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hasan Minhaj is a thoroughly modern man, and he’s just the type of dude to take great pains to let you know so. He’s also something of an ethnic comedy anomaly; not exactly a niche, genre-oriented comedian, per se, but his combined persona and onstage voice certainly make for an interesting juxtaposition of the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/hasan-minhaj-leaning-on-expensive-cars-and-getting-paid-to-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Natasha Leggero: Funny, with pants or without</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Natasha Leggero just keeps turning heads. A prolific stand-up performer whose intelligent musings earned her a regular seat on Chelsea Lately, she&#8217;ll appear on Comedy Central&#8217;s new post-apocalyptic series Ugly Americans premiering March 17.
She also has a starring role in an upcoming NBC pilot, The Strip, written by Reno 911! creators Tom Lennon and Ben [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/natasha-leggero-funny-with-pants-or-without/</link>
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		<title>Bobby Slayton: The comedy pitbull never rests</title>
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Long overdue, the legendary Bobby Slayton will premiere his first hour long cable comedy special and DVD. Born to be Bobby finds the pitbull sharper and more venomous than ever.
For nearly thirty years, Bobby Slayton’s X-rated fearlessness has made him the quintessential club comic. “The Pitbull of Comedy” doesn’t discriminate on the basis of race, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/bobby-slayton-the-comedy-pitbull-never-rests/</link>
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		<title>From the archives: The Marriage Ref&#8217;s Tom Papa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Papa is one of the most well-respected stand-up comedians in the country. Now, he&#8217;s the host of NBC&#8217;s highly anticipated Jerry Seinfeld-helmed The Marriage Ref.
A longer version of this interview was originally published on Punchline Magazine in July of 2007. The videos in the story are updated. Every once in a while, when the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/from-the-archives-the-marriage-refs-tom-papa/</link>
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		<title>Kyle Kinane: Death of the Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s lazy to describe comedian Kyle Kinane as “bleak and misanthropic,” which, according to Kyle, himself, is how the London Evening Standard once summarized his live act.
Sure, on the surface, the Chicago native doesn’t exactly present himself as happy with himself or the people around him— few truly engaging comedians do. And yes, he says [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/kyle-kinane-death-of-the-party/</link>
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		<title>Nick Thune: Will strum for laughs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Thune did not necessarily get into stand-up on purpose. From emceeing bar mitzvahs to covering Enrique Iglesias, his career is one built on unconventional routes and an ever-necessary lack of ambition that led him not by pursuit, but by nature to success in the comedy world. His debut album of music-accompanied absurdity, Thick Noon, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/nick-thune-will-strum-for-laughs/</link>
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		<title>Review: The Ricky Gervais Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ricky Gervais Show premieres Feb. 19 at 9 pm EST on HBO.
One of the biggest surprises about HBO’s The Ricky Gervais Show comes during the end credits of each episode. That’s where you find out that it takes 17 animators to bring to visual life, Gervais’ world famous podcast. It’s a surprise because the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/review-the-ricky-gervais-show/</link>
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		<title>Tom Green: Comic mercenary</title>
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Comedian Tom Green has gone back to his stand-up comedy roots by launching an international tour. The traveling circus hits Comix in New York this week. You&#8217;re town just may be next.
Tom Green wears a lot of labels, but in reality, everything you think you may know about him is probably wrong. (Or, at least, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/tom-green-comic-mercenary/</link>
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		<title>Comedy Matters with Russell Peters, Kevin Hart and more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Phenomenon That Is Russell Peters
Russell Peters is not just a comedian.  He’s a phenomenon, and that’s   a hard word to type more than once!  I’ve often referred to him as The   Messiah of Comedy, because he has such a diverse audience and makes   people of all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/comedy-matters-with-russell-peters-kevin-hart-and-more/</link>
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		<title>Bill Maher: Bill kills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Barack Obama presidency has, in no way, slowed down Bill Maher&#8217;s attempt to deconstruct all that&#8217;s wrong with American politics. In fact, he&#8217;s got plenty more to say. The proof is in his new live HBO comedy special premiering on Feb. 13.
There isn’t too much that can be said about Bill Maher that hasn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/bill-maher-bill-kills/</link>
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		<title>Isaac Witty: Zero Balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With a name like Isaac Witty, you’d have, no, you’d better be funny, especially when telling not one, not two, but three consecutive cell phone jokes, the 21st century equivalent of the 20th century stand-up standby: the airline-food lament.
It sounds like an improbable way to hook a likely cell-absorbed crowd, but Witty (his given name, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/isaac-witty-zero-balance/</link>
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		<title>Sarah Silverman Program: Season 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For its first two seasons, The Sarah Silverman Program did a fine job of turning Sarah Silverman’s demented onstage material into an even more demented weekly series for Comedy Central.
Judging by the first two episodes of season three, thankfully, very little – in the way of style and theme – has changed. If anything, this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/sarah-silverman-program-season-3/</link>
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		<title>Steve Agee: Comedian for all seasons</title>
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Just days away from the premiere of the third season of the Sarah Silverman Program, Steve Agee &#8212; one half of the most dynamic gay couple on television &#8212; gets deep about reality television, Twitter and his dramatic shift in the popular Comedy Central series.
Steve Agee is best known as half of the gay couple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/steve-agee-comedian-for-all-seasons/</link>
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		<title>Arj Barker: LYAO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While listening to LYAO, the new album from Arj Barker, it was hard for me to keep track of how often I found myself doubled over in laughter, hands on my head, shouting, “It’s so stupid!” Yet, to me, this is one of the best signs of great comedy: jokes that are so ludicrous that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/arj-barker-lyao/</link>
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		<title>Gabriel Iglesias: No labels, just funny</title>
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One of the most widely recognized and biggest selling comedians of our day, Gabriel Iglesias keeps things simple, funny and mostly clean. With a new DVD in stores now and plans to record a new special this year, the road horse comic shows no signs of resting on his success.
Gabriel Iglesias wants you to know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/gabriel-iglesias-no-labels-just-funny/</link>
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		<title>Ryan Singer: How to Get High Without Drugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although less incendiary than the explosive Lenny Bruce and more homespun than the irascible Bill Hicks, Ryan Singer nonetheless shares DNA with those great comic commandos, each of whom shot from the lip with howitzers.
On How to Get High Without Drugs (Rooftop Comedy Productions), Singer seemingly lobs softballs instead of hand grenades when deftly and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/ryan-singer-how-to-get-high-without-drugs/</link>
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		<title>Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aziz Ansari, a new star in the comedy world, offers an album of confident, fast-paced, and though at times overly energetic, hilarious and unconventional material. Though he rose into the limelight partly on the merits of a little character called RAAAAAAAANDY, who appears in last year&#8217;s Adam Sandler flick Funny People and who makes a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/aziz-ansari-intimate-moments-for-a-sensual-evening/</link>
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