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The Ohio State Buckeyes are taking on the Penn State Nittany Lions in Week 10, as the program aims to remain undefeated this season. “Big Noon Kickoff” arrived in Columbus, Ohio, for Saturday’s ...

Wayne Brady and Maurice Broaddus are set to bring their time-bending Afrofuturist thriller to readers around the world. Wayne Brady has secured a global publishing deal for his debut Afrofuturist ...

Wayne Brady is entering into uncharted territory with Hard Times, the debut science fiction novel co-authored by the Broadway performer. Described as "a time-bending sci-fi thriller," Brady wrote the ...

Amazon Prime Video and the popular Dungeons & Dragons group Critical Role have released the first trailer for their animated series “The Mighty Nein.” It’s based on Critical Role’s second Dungeons & ...

Complete casting has now been revealed for To Sir, With Love – A New Musical in the West End. The piece follows a teacher named Rick Braithwaite (first portrayed on screen by Sidney Poitier in the ...

Richard Zoglin, a New York-based writer and critic, is the author of “Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America.” Anyone who doubts that comedy is serious business these days ...

"Real Time" host Bill Maher called out comedian Dave Chappelle Friday for downplaying free speech in America during his performance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia last week. "Dave ...

Dave Chappelle’s recent claim that it’s “easier to talk here than it is in America” — here being Saudi Arabia, where the comedian was performing as part of the Riyadh Comedy Festival — is “not true,” ...

As comedians from Bill Burr to Kevin Hart were slammed for performing at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival, Dave Chappelle said the Middle Eastern nation is actually more suitable for stand-up ...

Dave Chappelle compared U.S. and Saudi speech laws during a Riyadh set, prompting criticism over his participation in the controversial comedy festival. Chappelle Says It’s Easier to Speak in Saudi ...