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Editor's note: It’s Debate Night in America and the Deadline ElectionLine podcast is kicking off our dawn-to dusk-coverage today of what will be the first face-off this year between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump. Stay tuned; later today we will be following the debate with breaking…

Comedy Central has unveiled the voice cast for Everybody Still Hates Chris, its upcoming reimagined animated version of Chris Rock's beloved autobiographical family comedy Everybody Hates Chris. Original stars Rock, Terry Crews and Tichina Arnold are back for the series, along with new cast members…

Pope Francis met with more than 100 comedians from around the world on Friday, telling the gathering that included Stephen Colbert, Whoopi Goldberg and Chris Rock that they “unite people, because laughter is contagious.” “Your talent is a precious gift,” the pope told them, per the Vatican. “Together…

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock and other comedians from around the world are on the guest list on Friday for an audience with Pope Francis. According to the Vatican’s news site, the meeting “promises to be a moment of meaningful intercultural dialogue and sharing of joy and…

Unfrosted’s Bowl and Spoon Awards almost had art imitate life, Jerry Seinfeld has revealed. Seinfeld originally asked Chris Rock to host his movie’s faux awards show. The idea was to give Rock a moment of redemption from the infamous Will Smith Oscars attack on him. “The other thing I wanted…

Sacha Baron Cohen and Chris Rock had the good sense to arrive early at the Jean-Michel Basquiat Made on Market Street exhibition at the  Larry Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. They surveyed the 30 or so Basquiat art works in relative peace ,before the throng arrived. Cohen tells me he came…

Dave Chappelle won the Best Comedy Album Grammy on Sunday for the second year in a row, beating Chris Rock, among other contenders, with his What’s In A Name? Chappelle’s fifth win in eight years and second in a row moves him into a tie with Richard Pryor and George Carlin for second-most career…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Rock has made a deal to develop to direct Another Round, based on the 2020 Thomas Vinterberg-directed black comedy that won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film as well as the BAFTA. The film is an Appian Way and Makeready production for Fifth Season. Jennifer Davisson and…

Dave Chappelle calls it "one of the craziest things I have ever seen." He is talking, of course, about the infamous Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscars confrontation. Like many, Chappelle wasn’t sure what he was watching. He thought it was "fake," and he "waited 30, 40 minutes" before calling Rock to…

The Golden Globes displayed a fair amount of consensus with the Recording Academy when it unveiled its first Golden Globe nominations for Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television, giving nominations Monday to such recently Grammy-nominated comedians as Chris Rock, Wanda Sykes, Trevor Noah and Sarah…

Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, Jon Stewart, Rachel Bloom and Stephen Colbert are among the performers set for Next For Autism’s annual Night of Too Many Stars comedy event in New York City in December. The comedy concert and live auction are scheduled for Monday, December 11, at the Beacon…

A massive collection of some of Hollywood's biggest names have commended President Joe Biden for his “unshakable moral conviction” and helping to get home some of the hostages taken by Hamas in their terror attack against Israel. A letter to Biden posted Monday on the website NoHostageLeftBehind has…