The Just For Laughs Comedy Festival has unveiled its list of top up-and-coming comedians in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere, who are set to participate in the New Faces of Comedy showcase later this week. The event is a traditional launch pad for major Hollywood talent like Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Kumail Nanjiani and Jimmy Fallon.
The success of their careers makes New Faces the industry’s biggest coming-out party for rising stand-up talent serious business. Young hopefuls eyeing Hollywood development deals grab the microphone at Just For Laughs in Montreal to draw laughter from a club audience as Los Angeles talent scouts, comedy agents and managers, TV execs and club bookers look on.
No pressure there. Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, who will receive the best comedy person award at the Just For Laughs ComedyPro conference later this week, was part of the New Faces comic discovery program in 2017.
Over three days,...
The success of their careers makes New Faces the industry’s biggest coming-out party for rising stand-up talent serious business. Young hopefuls eyeing Hollywood development deals grab the microphone at Just For Laughs in Montreal to draw laughter from a club audience as Los Angeles talent scouts, comedy agents and managers, TV execs and club bookers look on.
No pressure there. Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, who will receive the best comedy person award at the Just For Laughs ComedyPro conference later this week, was part of the New Faces comic discovery program in 2017.
Over three days,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It might be all-natural, but that joint you're smoking has a serious carbon footprint.
Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: Marijuana growth uses 1% of all U.S. energy.
Buzzkill, stoner pals. Your weed is really bad for the environment. Only the stuff that's grown inside, to be fair--the kind of boutique-y, mind-blowing pot preferred by many marijuana dispensaries. It's responsible for 1% of all electricity use in the U.S. That's a $5 billion yearly energy bill--two million U.S. homes' worth--just to get you super stoned.
The sobering news comes from a report by Evan Mills, a longtime energy analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs who, uh, has a friend who told him about all this weed stuff. According to Mills, the problem can be traced back to the high-intensity lighting, dehumidification, air-conditioning, irrigation systems, space-heating, and ventilation systems that all go into making sure marijuana plants grow up to be healthy,...
Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: Marijuana growth uses 1% of all U.S. energy.
Buzzkill, stoner pals. Your weed is really bad for the environment. Only the stuff that's grown inside, to be fair--the kind of boutique-y, mind-blowing pot preferred by many marijuana dispensaries. It's responsible for 1% of all electricity use in the U.S. That's a $5 billion yearly energy bill--two million U.S. homes' worth--just to get you super stoned.
The sobering news comes from a report by Evan Mills, a longtime energy analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs who, uh, has a friend who told him about all this weed stuff. According to Mills, the problem can be traced back to the high-intensity lighting, dehumidification, air-conditioning, irrigation systems, space-heating, and ventilation systems that all go into making sure marijuana plants grow up to be healthy,...
- 4/11/2011
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
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