Joan Rivers to host New Orleans comedy show | MSN TV News

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Comedian Joan Rivers is hosting two stand-up shows in New Orleans to benefit an organization that has been aimed at rebuilding the city in the years since Hurricane Katrina.

The New Orleans Healing Center is run by a voodoo priestess, Sallie Ann Glassman, who is friends with Rivers. About 15 years ago, they met when Rivers thought her New York apartment was haunted. Rivers asked Glassman to perform a spiritual cleansing.

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Southern Rep Joins New Orleans Fringe Fest, 11/19-21 | BroadwayWorld.com

The 2010 New Orleans Fringe Festival, November 17-21, will be an extraordinary five days of theater, performance art and spectacle. Forty groups from around the country and New Orleans will be presenting over 100 shows in venues across the city. The shows include the exotic, the dramatic and the insane: drama, dance, one-person shows, cabaret, comedy, puppetry, clowning, improvisational, aerialist and many other creative works...

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New Orleans Fall 2010 Comedy Guide | Gambit New Orleans

It's not easy being a comedian in New Orleans. Sparse audiences and a dearth of appropriate venues have given new depth and meaning to the whole "dying is easy, comedy is hard" line. Like so many in New Orleans' large creative community, local comedians do what they do because they love it — even though the abundance of entertainment choices in New Orleans on any given night makes it that much more difficult to attract audiences and further their careers...

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Houma comedian trying to launch improv comedy scene in New Orleans | DailyComet.com

With her brown eyes and straight humor, Grace Blakeman’s dry wit often catches recipients off guard. Yet beyond natural talent, Blakeman, 24, daughter of Andrea and Frank Blakeman of Houma, is becoming an influential force in New Orleans’ burgeoning comedy scene...

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New book celebrates, century-old 'Krazy Kat' cartoons created by a Crescent City-born artist | NOLA.com

Krazy Kat, A Celebration of Sundays is a book-shelf must-have for anyone devoted to jazz-era expression. But beneath the quirky comedy of the antique cartoon, Herriman's real life story is a disquieting detour through the bad ol' days of American race relations that begins in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans.

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'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me' didn't have to wait for the love from fan-filled New Orleans | NOLA.com

The audience at the sold-out taping of NPR's zany comedy-quiz show "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" was primed for a good time even before hosts Peter Sagal and Carl Kassel appeared onstage Thursday, March 11, at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts.

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