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    Feb 21, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. What's your take: Comedians working for free at iO

    There has been debate brewing the past few weeks among comedy performers in New York concerning the issue of pay. Often, stand-up comedians with a certain level of experience can score paying gigs at New York clubs. Recently, more and more stand-ups have <a href="http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/theater/upright-citizens-brigade-grows-by-not-paying-performers.html?ref=theater" target="_blank">started performing at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre</a>, a sketch and improv house where no one is paid to perform. Hence, the recent tensions.
    There has been debate brewing the past few weeks among comedy performers in New York concerning the issue of pay. Often, stand-up comedians with a certain level of experience can score paying gigs at New York clubs. Recently, more and more stand-ups...

    Tags: Matt Besser, Comedy Central (tv network), Matt Walsh, Entertainment, Arts and Culture

    2. May 15, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  2. Even in changing times, Shawnee Mission aims to remain at the head of the class

    The Kansas City Star
    The curtain to the new Shawnee Mission School District opens on a stage of cowboys and cowgirls rehearsing at Westridge Middle School. Something they call "positive risk" is in full play. For a troupe of nervous middle-schoolers learning the musical...

    Tags: Technology, Entertainment, Engineering, University of Washington, Teaching and Learning

    3. May 8, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. Incoming artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah has bold plans for Center Stage

    Kwame Kwei-Armah has a way of pulling others into his gravitational field, whirling them around and then depositing them in a place at some distance from where they started out.
    Kwame Kwei-Armah has a way of pulling others into his gravitational field, whirling them around and then depositing them in a place at some distance from where they started out. People leave an encounter with Center Stage's incoming artistic director...

    Tags: London (England), Senegal, Arts, Music, Entertainment

    4. Nov 27, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  4. 'Key & Peele' renewed for third season: Obama skits have helped duo raise their profile

    Variety
    Comedy Central's hot sketch duo series "Key & Peele" has been renewed for a third season. Decision was expected as the pair have become viral hits as well as a ratings magnet for the Viacom cabler. The net ordered 13 episodes, with a debut date set for...

    Tags: Comedy Central (tv network), Barack Obama, Viacom Inc., Entertainment, Jordan Peele

    5. Apr 28, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Funny or Die's Adam McKay on his site's comedy influence after five years

    Five years ago this month the influential comedy website Funny or Die took a few baby steps and uploaded its first video, a rough, hastily assembled sketch that starred, appropriately enough, a baby. Pearl McKay was 2 years old at the time, the daughter of parents deeply rooted in Chicago &mdash; her mother, Shira Piven, grew up in Evanston, the sister of actor Jeremy Piven. Pearl's father, Adam McKay, got his start in the Chicago comedy scene in the early '90s, then left in 1995 to become a writer at "Saturday Night Live." The video was called "The Landlord" and featured Pearl screaming at McKay's comedy partner, Will Ferrell. Back then, expectations for Funny or Die, which seemed like just another mingling of originally produced comedy videos and user-uploaded material, fell somewhere in line with scores of other, similar Hollywood-Internet hybrid misfires &mdash; remember Dot Comedy (NBC), Pop (Steven Spielberg) and SuperDeluxe (TBS)?
    Chicago Tribune reporter
    Five years ago this month the influential comedy website Funny or Die took a few baby steps and uploaded its first video, a rough, hastily assembled sketch that starred, appropriately enough, a baby. Pearl McKay was 2 years old at the time, the daughter...

    Tags: Adam McKay, Matt Besser, Entourage (tv program), Charlie Sheen, Steven Spielberg

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