During a hilarious performance on Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring, comedian Amy Silverberg admits to rating herself on Rate My Professor, theorizes why men wear baseball caps and reveals why she’s hesitant to move in with her “golden retriever” boyfriend.
Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications. Her short story “Suburbia!” appeared in Best American Short Stories, and is currently optioned for a tv show. Amy also writes for television, most recently “The Movie Show” on the SYFY Channel.
Amy’s stand-up comedy has been featured on Comedy Central, Hulu, NPR, and Amazon Prime. She was selected as a “New Face” at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal.
Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring: Half-hour stand-up specials have been a staple of the Comedy Central brand since the 90s. Even though the name of the TV show changed a few times and the airings have shifted online. Regardless, they are still alive and going strong.
Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents, formerly known as The Half Hour, is an American stand-up comedy television series that airs on Comedy Central in the United States. The program features various stand-up comedians in each episode. It replaced the similar program Comedy Central Presents in 2012.
Every episode features an up-and-coming comedian or sometimes a group performing an original set of stand-up. The first four seasons of the show where filmed at the Royale theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. Beginning with the fifth season, the comedians now perform their sets at the Civic Theatre in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was announced that a sixth season was picked up with 14 new stand-up comedians given their own set. It was also announced that the show will be retitled Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents.
The Half Hour shines a spotlight on some of the funniest and most unusual voices in stand-up comedy.
