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Cedric the Entertainer, Gary Owen, Felipe Esparza, DL Hughley and Eddie Griffin head to KC

Oct 16 , 2023

Kansas City, Mo. ( Oct. 16, 2023) -- Cedric the Entertainer, Gary Owen, Felipe Esparza, DL Hughley Head to KC on Friday, Dec. 1 for a night of non-stop laughter, camaraderie and unforgettable moments as part of the Laughing Gas Comedy Tour. Hosted by the incomparable Gary Owen, this hilarious affair will feature some of the brightest stars in the comedy universe for one night only. Over the course of a career spanning 30 years, actor/comedian Cedric “The Entertainer” has solidified his status as one of the world’s premier performers on the stage, in film and on television.

Currently, Cedric is starring in and executive producing the CBS Television hit comedy “The Neighborhood,” hosting and executive producing “The Greatest #AtHome Videos,” executive producing the dramedy “Johnson” for Bounce TV, and recently executive produced and hosted the 73rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. He also appears co-starring in “The Last O.G.,” opposite Tracy Morgan and Tiffany Haddish, and is reprising his role as Uncle Bobby in Disney+’s “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder” – the long-anticipated revival of the groundbreaking animated series “The Proud Family.” Cedric also won a 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for “The Neighborhood.”

Beloved American comedian and actor, Eddie Griffin brings all-star lineup featuring some of the brightest stars in the comedy universe to the show including Felipe Esparza and DL Hughley.  

Tickets can be bought at  www.t-mobilecenter.com .

Cedric the Entertainer

With special guests felipe esparza, d.l. hughley, gary owen and eddie griffin.

Give Your Week The Bird

The Bird Comedy Theater is Kansas City's Best Comedy Club! Featuring Improv, Sketch, Stand-Up & More every week in the Crossroads Arts District, located at 103 W. 19th, a block and a half west of the 19th Street Streetcar Stop!

Unless otherwise noted, all shows at The Bird Comedy Theater will contain Mature Content. Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Doors open 30 minutes before each performance.  Beer, wine, spirits, soft drinks, popcorn & candy available at our in-house bar!

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Every Thursday, we open our hearts & our stage for an evening of community comedy .

Improv @ 7:30. Stand-Up @ 9:30.

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Irish Comedy Show at Kansas City Irish Fest

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Ger Staunton

Described by the country’s longest running comedy club ‘The International’, Ger Staunton is “One of the best comedy writers in Ireland”.

Staunton is a regular headline act in his home country, as well as being one of the most internationally traveled performers to emerge from the green isle. He regularly tours America, Europe, the UAE, Scandinavia, the UK, and since the return of live entertainment in 2021 he has also brought his shows as far as Iraq and India.

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Fountain City Comedy Festival is a celebration of Kansas City's local comedy scene. With 20+ shows featuring 60+ nationally touring acts, this independent festival highlights the best parts of Kansas City!

2024's festival will take place September 12-14th 

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7260 NW 87th St Kansas City, MO 64153 Located in Zona Rosa

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Shawn Wayans

Ages 21 and up.

About the Artist: Shawn Wayans was born into one of Hollywood’s largest and most successful comedic families so he was naturally gifted with the ability to make people laugh. Before breaking out as a television and film actor Wayans first made his mark as the resident DJ on “In Living Color” (1990-94) the Fox sketch comedy series created by his older brother Keenen Ivory Wayans. He carved his own acting career with a starring role opposite younger brother Marlon Wayans in “The Wayans Bros.” (The WB 1995-99) a sitcom that followed two loudmouth and girl-crazy siblings who live with their eccentric father. Wayans achieved notable success in feature films by portraying hilarious and offbeat characters in the “Scary Movie” (2000) franchise and in the genre spoof “Dance Flick” (2009) where the actor delivered some of the most off-the-wall and amusing performances ever seen on screen. 

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YES Network Fails Yankees Fans and John Sterling

The Yankees' own network snubbed John Sterling during his farewell news conference.

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1. Saturday morning I was running around doing some of the typical weekend nonsense. I had extra pep in my step and was in high gear the entire time because I wanted to get home in time to watch John Sterling's news conference before John Sterling Day at Yankee Stadium.

The legendary New York Yankees radio broadcaster announced last week that he was retiring, effective immediately. The team then announced that they would have a day to honor Sterling on Saturday and that he would address his decision to retire with the media before the ceremony.

So I raced home and was able to flip on the YES Network, which had been promoting full coverage of John Sterling Day over the past few days, at 11:30 a.m. to watch the 85-year-old New York icon speak at his news conference.

There was only one problem. The YES Network was showing Bob Lorenz, John Flaherty and Dave Valle (who I had no idea was even part of the YES Network since, for some unknown reason, YES employs about 8 billion analysts for Yankees coverage).

I thought maybe the news conference was starting late because those things happen. But the studio crew wasn't giving any updates. So I told my Alexa to play WFAN, the radio home of the Yankees.

BAM! The news conference was going on and Sterling was taking and answering questions.

Meanwhile, as that was going on, the YES Network had the studio crew breaking down the Yankees' game against the Rays from the night before.

Just an amazingly bad decision and awful piece of programming.

Sterling's retirement was HUGE news in New York all week. This was the first time he was meeting with the media since making the announcement and the Yankees network decided not to show the news conference.

He was the team's radio voice for 36 years and the YES Network somehow thought people wanted a breakdown of a meaningless regular-season game.

YES would later show snippets of the news conference, but it was too little, too late. It needed to be shown live and in its entirety.

Not airing it was an awful decision. It was a slap in the face to Yankees fans. And it was a disservice to Sterling.

On a total side note, I saw a lot of people rip the Yankees because they gave Sterling an 83-inch TV as a retirement gift during his ceremony. I'm giving the Yankees a pass here. Sterling had told me and others last week that his plan in retirement was to watch every Yankees and Mets game, every game on ESPN, Turner and MLB Network and every NHL and NBA playoff game. So there's nothing wrong with the Yankees gifting him a big television.

2. What a disastrous weekend for the NBA. Eight playoff games and five were completely noncompetitive. The home team won all eight games, Only two games were decided by single digits. The first round really should be best of five.

• Magic-Cavaliers (83-97): Unwatchable
• Timberwolves-Suns (95-120): Unwatchable
• 76ers-Knicks (104-111): Good game
• Lakers-Nuggets (103-114): OK game
• Heat-Celtics (94-114): Unwatchable
• Clippers-Mavericks (97-109): Unwatchable
• Bucks-Pacers (94-109): Unwatchable
• Pelicans-Thunder (92-94): Good game

3. After a 35-point effort in which he led the Bucks to a blowout win against the Indiana Pacers on Sunday, Milwaukee star Damian Lillard explained that it was good to be back in the playoffs and that he wan't up for another experience at Coachella.

“Last two years not being in the playoffs, it sucked," Lillard said in his postgame news conference. "Early vacations. Last year, I went to Coachella. I ain’t ever been able to go to Coachella playing in the playoffs every year. So just having that long summer, it was like, man, I was over that.”

"Last 2 years not being in the playoffs... It sucked. I went to Coachella. I ain't ever been able to go to Coachella." 😅 Dame is happy to be back in the playoffs 🙏 pic.twitter.com/pEW371NoAu — Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 22, 2024

4. For those of you who miss having Good Morning Football around every morning after the show was put on hiatus, a version of the show will be brought back later this week for the NFL Draft and will air Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

🚨GMFB Returns🚨 @gmfb returns THIS week w/ editions Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 7a ET on @nflnetwork ! @SlaterNFL @JasonMcCourty @PSchrags @KyleBrandt @TomPelissero — NFL Media (@NFLMedia) April 22, 2024

5. Jerry Seinfeld expressed his love for the Mets television booth of Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling in a new interview with GQ .

GQ: Here we are in baseball season. My question for you, as a fellow Mets fan, is how do fans of other teams live with announcing teams so inferior to Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, and Keith Hernandez?

Seinfeld: I have no idea. I couldn’t watch it. They spoil you for everybody else. There are some others that I like, but nothing beats Gary, Keith, and Ron. And it really is Gary. He brings it on another level.

GQ: Here’s a thought experiment: What if you had to choose between winning the World Series but losing Gary, Keith, and Ron? I’m glad that nobody has given me that power to decide. Because I’m with them 130 nights a year; it would be only one night that we won the Series.

Seinfeld: That is fantastic. But what you forget is how every other day you’re not going to feel good, depending on whether they won or lost the night before. Somebody asked me the other night: Would I trade my comedy career for playing 10 years on the Mets and we win the World Series and I go to the Hall of Fame. And I said no, because 10 years is still too short. The thing about Gary, Keith, and Ron is, there are few people in life that seem happy doing what they’re doing. These guys go to the park every day and they’re happy to be there. And I think that adds an undercurrent of relief. It’s a relief to be around people who are happy doing what they’re doing. Maybe that’s another reason people go to see comedians. I’m not trying to be anything else. When I walked into a comedy club the very first time, I was probably 18, that was the first time as a human on earth that I felt like, Oh, I’m home.

6. In case you missed it, we released two SI Media Podcasts last week.

On Friday, a new episode with ESPN's Malika Andrews dropped.

🎙️New SI MEDIA PODCAST w @malika_andrews -Working first playoffs/Finals as NBA Countdown host -Message from Mike Greenberg after getting the gig -Working with Stephen A. and Richard Jefferson -Covid bubble memories Apple:  https://t.co/ck0BFM7TyA Spotify:  https://t.co/diM3f0Z0wr — Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) April 19, 2024

Earlier in the week, we had the first extensive interview with WWE's Cody Rhodes after he won the WWE Undisputed Championship at WrestleMania.

SI MEDIA PODCAST w WWE champion @CodyRhodes -Finishing his story at WrestleMania40 -Epic main event + cameos by Cena & Undertaker -Did he have a moment w Reigns after match -WWE changing Mania main event Apple: https://t.co/ck0BFM7TyA YouTube: https://t.co/9C10zoOLij pic.twitter.com/CrtIkBDrxJ — Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) April 18, 2024

You can listen to each podcast by clicking into the tweets above. You can also listen on Apple and Spotify .

7. RANDOM VIDEO OF THE DAY : Old-school NBA playoff intros, voiced by the great Marv Albert, were the absolute best.

The NBA on @nbc full intro and game preview of Bulls Magic from 1996. Bring it back pic.twitter.com/zrMeJVf2DO — Hubie Talks Hoops (@HubieTalksHoops) April 22, 2024

Be sure to  catch up on past editions of Traina Thoughts  and check out the  Sports Illustrated Media Podcast  hosted by Jimmy Traina on  Apple ,  Spotify  or  Google . You can also follow Jimmy on  X , Instagram  and  TikTok . 

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Rapper Chris King, friend of Justin Bieber and Trippie Redd, killed in Nashville

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The rapper Chris King, who was close friends with Justin Bieber and collaborated with Trippie Redd, was killed early Saturday morning in Nashville, according to police reports . He was 32.

The artist, born Christopher Cheeks, was in an alleyway between Hayes and Church streets in Nashville at 2:30 a.m. with a 29-year-old man (who was not named), when according to Nashville police, three men attempted to rob them. Both King and the 29-year-old man were shot in the altercation, though the 29-year-old survived.

King was found in the parking garage of the nearby Hayes Street Hotel, and was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he died.

Bieber, a former roommate of King’s, reposted a photo of the two to Instagram, writing “Love you bro. This one hurts. Please keep his family in your prayers. See you in paradise brother.”

Trippie Redd also mourned the loss of his friend, writing “I am so hurt rn I can’t even think I love you bro come back!!!!! I can’t catch a break.”

“I would not be where I am today without @whoischrisking,” he continued. “He had the best energy always he had so many friends and it shows I love you guys for supporting one of my best friends ever my brother.”

Over a decade-long career, King releases scores of mixtapes and LPs, including the long-running “Luck of the Snotty” series. King released a new single, “Seeing Double Seeing Double,” on April 8.

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