Jordan Carlos, the self-proclaimed "preppy black comedian," was sitting in the Park Slope patisserie Colson’s on a recent Saturday afternoon, sipping a latte. He wore his signature getup: a snazzy buttoned-up shirt and thick-framed glasses. "Sometimes you have to carry this cross of race and struggle but you really just want to write jokes," he said over the din of the cappuccino machine and a whining baby. "I’m just a gunslinger who wants to do his job."  read more »

Where will HBO hold its annual U.S. Comedy Arts Festival?

The pay-cabler announced in May that it wouldn't keep the industry-targeted fest in Aspen, Colo., where it had been held for the past 13 years -- this followed a 2007 incarnation in early March that was marred by bad weather and flight cancellations, as well as the decision by fest headquarters, the St. Regis Hotel, to go condo.  read more »

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