Richard Belzer News

Ripple Effect Artists - a premier NY arts & philanthropy organization - is hosting a FUNDRAISER raising awareness for MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS featuring GILBERT GOTTFRIED ON Saturday, July 17 @ 7:30 P.M.

Stand-Up Night LIVE is back with 2020 headliner Kortney Shane Williams (Laughs TV, 'The 206'), host Dan Rosenberg, guest Bhama Roget (The EDGE Improv), and more special surprise guests.

Comedian Taylor Williamson headlines a one-night-only comedy show at BPA September 21 with special guest, Dan Rosenberg.

Comedian Taylor Williamson headlines this one-night-only comedy show at BPA with special guest, Dan Rosenberg. An actor and writer, Taylor Williamson is known for America's Got Talent (2006 - Runner Up), Last Comic Standing (2003), and Taylor Williamson: Please Like Me (2017). He has been seen on The Late Late Show, Comedy Central, and MTV. Williamson returns to perform in "America's Got Talent, The Champions," which premieres January 7 on NBC. In this spin-off of the summer hit, the top fifty acts of all time will compete to be declared the best of the best.

Stand-Up Night Live is back with headliner Duane Goad (FX, NBC, 'The 206'), host Dan Rosenberg, live music with Westerly Sound, and special guests Nigel Larson and Claire Webber.

When you enter the Friars Club on 55th street the world immediately becomes a better place. The first space you encounter is the Billy Crystal Room where you hear the laughter and the animated conversations as Friars share stories with one another. Last night in only the 8th time in the Club's 114-year history The Icon Award was presented by Robert De Niro to Billy Crystal at the Ziegfeld Ballroom to a capacity filled New York/Hollywood audience. The Icon Award honors individuals whose extraordinary accomplishment raise the standard of entertainment and positively redefines our culture. Billy is following in the footsteps of entertainment icons Douglas Fairbanks, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Martin Scorsese, and Robert De Niro.

The Paley Center for Media today announced three exciting additions to an already stellar spring season of PaleyLive programming: Jessica Jones Gets a Second Date on March 8, An Evening with Roseanne with a Special Preview of Alex, Inc. with Zach Braff on March 26, andHomicide: Life on the Street: A Reunion on May 24. All programs will take place at the Paley Center's New York City location.

Break in the New Year with an evening of LIVE stand-up with host DAN ROSENBERG, special guest BRIDGET YOUNG, and headliner BRAD UPTON. Sharing the stage are band leader RAFFI MINASIAN and announcer JONATHAN HIBBS.

Celebrated bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer and comedian Paul Shaffer along with his talented full band, The Shaf-Shifters, will perform an exclusive three-week engagement at the iconic Cleopatra's Barge at Caesars Palace on select dates in December 2017 and January 2018.

Break in the New Year with an evening of LIVE stand-up with host DAN ROSENBERG, special guest BRIDGET YOUNG, and headliner BRAD UPTON. Sharing the stage are band leader RAFFI MINASIAN and announcer JONATHAN HIBBS.

Celebrated bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer and comedian Paul Shaffer along with his talented full band, The Shaf-Shifters, will perform an exclusive three-week engagement at the iconic Cleopatra's Barge at Caesars Palace on select dates in December 2017 and January 2018.

Cortland Repertory Theatre RT Downtown proudly presents the ITALIAN COMEDY FESTA, on Saturday, October 19 at 7:30. Johnny Rizzo and Liz Russo, two of America's top Italian-American stand-up comics, will serve up heaping helpings of huge laughs as they talk about growing up Italian with food, family and funny! But you CRT don't have to be Italian to get the lasagna jokes!

As BroadwayWorld sadly reported earlier this week, comic legend Jerry Lewis died at 91 years old at his home in Las Vegas.

PRINCESS DIANA: TRAGEDY OR TREASON? premieres Monday, July 31 at 8/7c. Viewers can catch an early premiere of the first full hour on TLC GO starting July 24th.

PRINCESS DIANA: TRAGEDY OR TREASON? premieres Monday, July 31 at 8/7c. Viewers can catch an early premiere of the first full hour on TLC GO starting July 24th.

Blue Panther Productions presents award winning humorist Dylan Brody in his solo show 'Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood' starting at The PIT Underground on July 6th running thru July 22nd. Nancy Carlin directs.

Blue Panther Productions presents award winning humorist Dylan Brody in his new solo show Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood coming to London's Canal Cafe Theatre June 9 thru 17. Nancy Carlin directs. The show's international tour which debuted at Chicago's Apollo Theater at the beginning of May will continue at Barcelona's Teatro Tinta Roja thru May 27 and move to New York in July at The PIT Underground following the London run.

Blue Panther Productions presents award winning humorist Dylan Brody in his new solo show 'Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood' starting at Chicago's Apollo Theater May 3 running thru May 20. Nancy Carlin directs.

Jerry's 90th Birthday Party soon became a telethon of happiness as the Friars evening unfolded.  The pledges given to Jerry Lewis were of love and respect and they came from his fellow Friars and entertainers jam packed into the Frank Sinatra Dining Room.  The amount of laughs in the club even created a new total of hysterics for an institution that has been the home of much laughter during its storied show biz history.

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced that Director/Producer Ron Howard, Teamsters Local 817 President Thomas J. O'Donnell, Director/Writer/Producer Tyler Perry, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Film Editor Thelma Schoonmaker will be honored at the 2015 DGA Honors