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The Apollo Comedy Hour
''The Apollo Comedy Hour'' is a sketch-comedy that aired in first-run syndication from 1992-1995. The series was filmed the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. It was produced by the same people who produced ''It's Showtime at the Apollo''. Format Like a similar syndicated show from around the same time period, ''Uptown Comedy Club'' and the Fox series ''In Living Color'', ''Apollo Comedy Hour'' featured a cast of young hopeful comedians, guest stars and a new musical act for each episode. Cast The cast was primarily black and Hispanic, with sketches primarily written around their personal experiences and observations. Series regulars included Paula Jai Parker, Grace Garland, Lisa Nicole Carson, Debra Wilson, and Ian Edwards. Randl Ask and later Ilan Kwittken were the only white cast members. The show was hosted by Phyllis Stickney. Mary Flowers served as music talent executive. Meanwhile, Patrice O'Neal's first television appearance was on ''The Apollo Comedy Hour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sketch Comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is used widely in variety shows, comedy talk shows, and some sitcoms and children's television series. The sketches may be improvised live by the performers, developed through improvisation before public performance, or scripted and rehearsed in advance like a play. Sketch comedians routinely differentiate their work from a "skit", maintaining that a skit is a (single) dramatized joke (or "bit") while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character, or situation. definition 3b, Merriam-Webster online. Retrieved 5/4/2019 History Sketch comedy has its origins in |
Black People
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid to dark brown complexion. Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned compared to other populations. It is most commonly used for people of sub-Saharan African ancestry and the indigenous peoples of Oceania, though it has been applied in many contexts to other groups, and is no indicator of any close ancestral relationship whatsoever. Indigenous African societies do not use the term ''black'' as a racial identity outside of influences brought by Western cultures. The term "black" may or may not be capitalized. The '' AP Stylebook'' changed its guide to capitalize the "b" in ''black'' in 2020. The '' ASA Style Guide'' says that the "b" should not be capitalized. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLVI
WLVI (channel 56) is a television station licensed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, serving the Boston area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Sunbeam Television alongside WHDH (channel 7), an independent station. WLVI and WHDH share studios at Bulfinch Place (near Government Center) in downtown Boston; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WHDH's spectrum from the WHDH-TV tower in Newton, Massachusetts. Channel 56 is Boston's oldest UHF station, with roots dating to 1953 and having been in continuous operation since 1966. In addition to syndicated entertainment programs, the station was notable for producing a variety of local children's and sports programs, and in the late 1960s and between 1984 and 2006, it produced local newscasts. History WTAO-TV On December 19, 1952, the Middlesex Broadcasting Company, owners of WTAO (740 AM) and WXHR (96.9 FM) applied for a construction permit to build a new television station in Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMAR-TV
WMAR-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. The station's studios and offices are located on York Road (Maryland Route 45) in Towson (though with a Baltimore City mailing address), north of the Baltimore City–Baltimore County border. Its transmitter and antenna, which is on the landmark three-pronged candelabra broadcast tower, is located on Television Hill in the Woodberry neighborhood of Baltimore. History Early years WMAR first began broadcasting on October 27, 1947. It was the first television station in Maryland, and was the fourteenth commercial television station to sign on in the United States (another two stations were experimental). WMAR was founded by the A. S. Abell Company, publisher of the ''Sunpapers'' (''The Baltimore Sun'' and its evening counterpart, ''The Evening Sun'') and was the first completed phase of the ''Sunpapers'' expansion into broadcasting; the ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltimore
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and today is the most populous independent city in the United States. As of 2021, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be 2,838,327, making it the 20th largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about north northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the third-largest CSA in the nation, with a 2021 estimated population of 9,946,526. Prior to European colonization, the Baltimore region was used as hunting grounds by the Susquehannock Native Americans, who were primarily settled further northwest than where the city was later built. Colonist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WANF
WANF (channel 46) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is the flagship property of locally based Gray Television and is co-owned with independent station WPCH-TV (channel 17) and low-power, Class A Telemundo affiliate WKTB-CD (channel 47). WANF and WPCH-TV share studios on 14th Street Northwest in Atlanta's Atlantic Station district, while WANF's transmitter is located in the city's Woodland Hills section. The station was built in 1971 as WHAE-TV (later WANX-TV), owned by the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). Originally a nonprofit operation airing religious programs, the station gradually became a more commercially oriented independent station and broadened its programming to include older movies and family-friendly classic TV shows. CBN sold the station to Tribune Broadcasting in 1983, and the call sign was changed to WGNX in 1984. Tribune substantially built up the station, upgrading programming and turning it into Atlanta' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 living within the city limits, it is the eighth most populous city in the Southeast and 38th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 U.S. census. It is the core of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to more than 6.1 million people, making it the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at an elevation of just over above sea level, it features unique topography that includes rolling hills, lush greenery, and the most dense urban tree coverage of any major city in the United States. Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among several rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alonzo Bodden
Alonzo Bodden (; born June 13, 1962) is an American comedian and actor known for winning the grand prize in the third season of the reality-television series ''Last Comic Standing''. He had been the runner-up in the previous season. In 2007, he released his DVD ''Tall, Dark and Funny''. He was a talent judge in NBC's 5th season of ''Last Comic Standing'', along with Kathleen Madigan and ANT. He is also a television host and voice-over actor, and is a regular panelist on the radio quiz program '' Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!''. Early life Alonzo Bodden was born and raised in the Saint Albans area of Queens, New York City. His mother was African American; his father was black Honduran. Before his work in show business, Bodden went to Aviation High School in Long Island City, New York. He went on to work for Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach in the training department in the early ’90s. Television He hostedThe Adam Carolla Podcast, 3/11/2009 the Speed TV prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henton
John Henton (born November 23, 1960) is an American actor and comedian. Henton is best known for his roles as Overton Wakefield Jones on the FOX sitcom ''Living Single'' and as Milsap Morris on the ABC/UPN sitcom ''The Hughleys''. Life and career Henton was born in East Cleveland, Ohio. He is a graduate of Shaw High School. In 1982, Henton had a day job working at a paint warehouse and was taking computer classes in the evenings. He decided to perform at an amateur night at a Cleveland comedy club. On his second performance, Henton won the amateur night contest. Henton was a stand-up comedian in the Cleveland area for a few years.Goudas, John N. (January 10, 1993).Standup Comic John Henton Slated for Stardom. ''King Features Syndicate''. The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania). p. 53. He took his comedy on the road for a year and won the 1991 Johnny Walker National Comedy Search. Henton was spotted by ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' comedy executive Jim McCawle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrice O'Neal
Patrice Lumumba Malcolm O'Neal (December 7, 1969 – November 29, 2011) was an American comedian and actor. He was known for his stand-up comedy career and his regular guest appearances on the talk show ''Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn'' and the radio show ''Opie and Anthony''. O'Neal began performing stand-up in 1992 and developed an act based on conversations with the audience, deconstructive analysis, and occasionally confrontational points of view.Weiner, Jonah (Feb. 16, 2012)"Death of a Stand-Up."''Rolling Stone'', no. 1150, pp. 47–49. From 2006 to 2008, he presented ''The Black Phillip Show'' on XM Satellite Radio. His only stand-up comedy special, ''Elephant in the Room'' (2011), was released nine months before his death at the age of 41 from a stroke caused by type 2 diabetes. A posthumous follow-up, '' Mr. P'' (2012), was released as audio only. Early life Patrice Malcolm O'Neal was born in New York City on December 7, 1969. He was named by his mother after Patrice Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Edwards (comedian)
Ian Edwards is a British Jamaicans, British Jamaican / United States, American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and producer from New York and based in Los Angeles, California. Career Edwards launched his career through stand-up comedy. His first writing job was on ''The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show'' in 1998. In 2000, Edwards wrote on MTV's ''The Lyricist Lounge Show''. He wrote on ABC's ''The Big House (2004 TV series), The Big House'' starring Kevin Hart, and in 2005, Edwards was a regular cast member on season 6 of MTV's ''Punk’d'', and a story editor on Cartoon Network's ''The Boondocks (TV series), The Boondocks''. He was a writer on Comedy Central's ''Chocolate News'', a Consulting Producer on ''Dogg After Dark'' starring Snoop Dogg and wrote on FOX's ''In the Flow with Affion Crockett''. Edwards performed stand-up on the Comedy Death-Ray (album), ''Comedy Death-Ray'' album in 2006, appeared twice on HBO's Def Comedy Jam. He performed on P. Diddy's ''The Bad Boys of Comedy'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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