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The Best Show with Tom Scharpling is a podcast radio show that has attracted devotees from the worlds of music and comedy. Every Tuesday night, Scharpling has phone conversations with Chapel Hill’s Jon Wurster, who portrays a fake caller from the fictional town of Newbridge, New Jersey. The eccentric phone conversations feature comedy and music critiques.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 8, Feb 2016, p16-19, il, por Periodical Website
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37011
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Melzer is the director of a Thursday night comedy show, Stranger Danger, and the Associate Artistic Director of Dirty South Improv Comedy. Her work serves a comedy purpose, but she is driven by folkloric views.
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35739
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Throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s, performances created around the aspects of African American life were widely popular. Minstrel shows hosted blackface performers who presented stereotyped customs, including speech, songs, dress, dances, and more.
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27047
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Notable comedy acts in the Triangle this year were feminist comedy, the monthly Bulltown Comedy Series held at Fullsteam brewery, and the fifteenth anniversary of the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival. Local comedians earned national notices and Raleigh’s Adam Cohen launched Band Candy, a YouTube channel featuring animated shorts voiced by local comedians.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 51, Dec 2015, p22, por Periodical Website
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23184
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Virginia Wallace discusses the Bulltown Comedy Series at Durham's Fullsteam Brewery and how standup comedians have done well at the brewery. She discusses the importance of supporting local, live talent.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 15, April 2015, p28, il Periodical Website
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21926
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Goodnight's Comedy Club has been a Raleigh institution for stand-up comedy for over thirty years. Marc Grossman, the owner of Helium Comedy Club, a three-club chain that operates out of Philadelphia, recently purchased it. The two other venues are in Buffalo, NY and Portland, OR in addition to the new Raleigh one. He discusses his plans for Goodnight's, which will retain its name.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 30 Issue 44, Oct 2013, p34, il Periodical Website
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27079
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Duncan Trussell is an Asheville-born, Los Angeles-based comedian known for his podcast called The Duncan Trussell Family Hour. As an advocate for psychedelic plant medicines, he is also known to go off on random tangents. Trussell returns to North Carolina on his There Are No Drugs on This Bus Tour, performing Friday at Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 13, March 2016, p38, il Periodical Website
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