Some of televisions funniest personalities are trading in their camera work for live audiences at the New York Comedy Festival this week. TVGuide.com caught up a few of them, including Tracy Morgan, Frank Caliendo, Joel McHale and Carlos Mencia, to find out how they compare their work on television with live stand-up routines in front of thousands of people.
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Superstars John Leguizamo, Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, Lupe Ontiveros, Eva La Rue and Cesar Millan celebrated Latinos' work in TV and features at the 23rd Annual Imagen Awards Thursday night.La Misma Luna, a critically acclaimed film by Patricia Riggin, scored the biggest win of the night with five trophies, including Best Picture, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ugly Betty won Best TV Series, while Best Actor and Actress went to Carlos Mencia (Mind of Mencia) and Christina Milian (Snowglobe), respectively. Interestingly enough, America Ferrera, who was in Luna and currently starring in Ugly Betty, did not walk away with an acting award.Helen Hernandez, president of the Imagen Foundation, told the Reporter, "The increase of Latino representation across entertainment disciplines is truly indicative of the prevalent role we play in Hollywood, mainstream America and throughout the world." — Erin FoxRelated• ALMA Awards Beautiful Night
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Jessica Simpson is breaking out her desk globe and making tracks for Kuwait, where on March 10 she will join the rock band Disturbed and funnyman Carlos Mencia in entertaining U.S. troops. For those of us not serving our country at this time (or at least not in ways more impressive than blogging about... Jessica Simpson), the event will be broadcast live on MySpace.com. "It's truly an honor to perform for the troops," Simpson says in a statement. "Through Operation MySpace, I get to serve my country by doing what I love to do in front of thousands of brave men in uniform!" That previous sentence could probably benefit from a comma after the word "do," but who am I to question the Associated Press?
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Tony Bennett and Christina Aguilera will reprise their duet performance of "Steppin' Out (With My Baby)" at the Sept. 16 Primetime Emmy Awards. But will Xtina step out with a baby belly?.... Carlos Mencia will host the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sept. 8.... ESPN2's telecast of the "Super Classico" contest between David Beckham's L.A. Galaxy and Chivas USA set a new record as the cabler's most-watched MLS game ever.... Oliver Hudson (Rules of Engagement) and wife Erinn Bartlett (How I Met Your Mother) welcomed their first child, a son named Wilder Brooks, on Aug. 23, says People.
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Not so long ago, Joe Rogan was talking people into eating bugs and jumping out of planes as the host of Fear Factor. Since then, he's returned to his stand-up comedy roots with the CD Shiny Happy Jihad (released April 10) and a new Showtime special airing tonight at 9 pm/ET. He's also been no stranger to confrontation — serving as a color commentator on Spike TV's broadcasts of UFC bouts and advocating a crackdown on comedians he believes plagiarize material. TVGuide.com spoke with the candid comic and, well, got an earful.
TVGuide.com: Your Joe Rogan: Live special starts off with a microbiological metaphor for Los Angeles, and you deal with existential issues throughout. It's not quite what you'd expect from a guy who hosted
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