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Their next tour date is at The Bourbon Room in Los Angeles (LA), after that they'll be at Independence Stadium in Shreveport.

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Prepare to laugh all night with Bill Bellamy tickets. William Bellamy was born in Newark, New Jersey on April 7, 1965, in Newark, New Jersey, and is a cousin of basketball star Shaquille O'Neal. Bellamy's distinctive voice and laugh have become iconic. Bellamy's comedy routines are sometimes laced with dark humor. Bellamy created the iconic phrase “booty call” when he was doing a bit on Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy on HBO, and the rest is basically history.

Bellamy went to Seton Hall Preparatory School, then went on to study at Rutgers University in the field of economics. Bellamy was a staple on MTV for many years as a VJ and host to such shows as MTV Jamz and MTV Beach House. He subsequently appeared in numerous films, including Fled, Love Jones, How to Be a Player, The Brothers, Any Given Sunday and Getting Played. He appeared on the Nickelodeon comedy series Kenan and Kel. He is also well-known for voicing Skeeter on the Nickelodeon television program Cousin Skeeter.

See one of the funniest comedians around with Bill Bellamy tickets. Bellamy appeared in Fastlane, a Fox Network television program with Peter Facinelli and Tiffani Thiessen in 2002. In addition to his television and film work, he contributed anecdotes on Chelsea Lately, the hit E! late-night talk show. Bill Bellamy has been everywhere in the comedy world. He's hosted seasons 5 and 6 of NBC's Last Comic Standing reality program, played Councilman Powell on TV Land original series Hot In Cleveland (2014), voiced Marcus Hill in the 2005 version update NARC video game as well finds time to executive produce his own show Who Got Jokes?, which is in its fourth season!

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Bill Bellamy continues to be one of the busiest comedians in the entertainment industry. Bill Bellamy tour dates across most of the United States and some Canadian venues on the tour schedule every year. You may be able to catch a performance at hit theaters like the Terry Fator Theatre at the Mirage in Las Vegas or the Funny Bone Comedy Club in Columbus. Make you are there every year for the New York Comedy Festival . Don’t miss your chance to see a great stand-up comedy show in your city. Use the event calendar above today to see what is available near you.

Prepare to laugh because Bill Bellamy is performing 16 comedy shows this year. Bill Bellamy is set to perform their comedy act on June 28th, 2024 at 6:00pm. This hilarious show is playing at the City Winery - Philadelphia at 990 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA. Tickets to this show range from $540.00 to $540.00 a ticket. Get your Bill Bellamy tickets now because there are only 4 tickets available for this performance. 

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Spend the evening laughing from the comfort of your own seat when you see Bill Bellamy perform live. Reserve your seat now to see Bill Bellamy play at the Improv Comedy Club - Addison on November 3rd, 2024 at 7:30pm. This great venue is located at 4980 Beltline Road #250, Addison, TX. Seats to this comedy show begin at $71.75 and go up to $123.93 a seat. Order now before this show sells out because there are only 14 Bill Bellamy tickets left.

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"The Big Ticket Comedy Tour” is an unprecedented standup comedy combining veteran and new age comedy stars hosted by none other than Bill Bellamy and starring standup comedy greats Earthquake, Bill Bellamy, Jess Hilarious, Tony Roberts, and D’Lai. The tour kicks off as a special engagement at the Holland Center!

"The Big Ticket Comedy Tour” is an unprecedented standup comedy combining veteran and new age comedy stars hosted by none other than Bill Bellamy and starring standup comedy greats Earthquake, Bill Bellamy, Jess Hilarious, Tony Roberts, and D’Lai. The tour kicks off as a special engagement at the Holland Center! Pop Up Comedy Series brings you this ensemble of marquee comedians that have been in the game for decades and some of the hottest new comedians paving the way for the future of comedy. It's sure to be the comedy event of the year with these visionary comedians leaving the audience laughing hysterically and wanting more. 

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Cobbs’ diverse and extensive career included notable roles such as Alan Tatum in Season 3 of “The West Wing,” and Moses, the clock man in the Coen brothers’ “The Hudsucker Proxy.” He also portrayed manager Devaney in “The Bodyguard” alongside Whitney Houston.

Cobbs began his television career with the 1975 educational series “Vegetable Soup” on New York public television. He went on to appear in numerous acclaimed shows, including “The Sopranos,” “Good Times,” “Sesame Street,” and “My Wife and Kids.” In 2020, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding limited performance in the series “Dino Dana.”

In “The West Wing,” Cobbs’ character Alan Tatum received a poignant scene where Charlie Young, the presidential aide, informs him of a rediscovered letter he wrote to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at age nine.

Cobbs made his feature film debut in 1974 with “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.” His filmography includes “The Hitter” (1979), “Brother From Another Planet” (1984), “Air Bud” (1997), “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” (1998), “The Muppets” (2011), and playing security guard Reginald in “Night at the Museum” (2006) with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.

Born in Cleveland, Cobbs served as an Air Force radar technician and worked various jobs before moving to New York at 36 to pursue acting. His first professional role was in “Ride a Black Horse” with the Negro Ensemble Company. He also performed in street theater, regional theater, and at the Eugene O’Neill Theater.

Thomas Cobbs, a relative, commemorated Bill Cobbs on Facebook, calling him a “beloved partner, big brother, uncle, surrogate parent, godfather, and friend.” The post read, “As a family, we are comforted knowing Bill has found peace and eternal rest with his Heavenly Father. We ask for your prayers and encouragement during this time.”

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S HREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Several events for Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s Humor & Harmony Festival are locked in, according to Visit Shreveport-Bossier.

The highly anticipated festival will take place from Thursday, Aug. 8 to Sunday, Aug. 11, and is meant to showcase a mix of comedy, music, sports and more.

The four-day festival will span across Independence Stadium, Stageworks and the Shreveport Convention Center. On Wednesday, June 26, the full festival schedule was shared on the Humor & Harmony website.

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• A car show at the Shreveport Convention Center will showcase 50 Cent’s personal vehicles & collections from his friends, according to Visit Shreveport-Bossier.

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Designed as a slave ship, the Whydah Gally was built to be bad. Then forcefully repurposed as a pirate vessel, it became arguably even worse. Yet in its mercifully short time at sea, seeds of democracy were sown among its crew.

Sir Humphrey Morice, a member of the British parliament and leading London merchant in the slave trade, commissioned the ship’s construction in 1715. Its name was an Anglicized version of Ouidah, the port city of Dahomey, a kingdom on the western African coast that’s now the Republic of Benin. Dahomey’s King Agaja had organized a large army that pushed deep into Africa capturing millions of prisoners to make his land the world’s leading exporter of slaves through its the Royal African Company.

Human cargo stowage plan for a typical slave ship. Wikipedia

Whydah was well-suited for its job. The sturdy square-rigged, three-masted galley was 110 feet long with a hold capable of hauling 300 metric tons or about 330 U.S. tons. Topside cabins could accommodate the captain, officers and even some paying passengers. On a good wind, it could reach 13 knots or about 15 miles per hour. For protection at sea, it had 18 six-pound cannons, which could be upgraded to 28 should they be needed in times of war.

Captain Lawrence Prince was at the helm as the Whydah left its London home port for its maiden voyage early in 1716, sailing down the European coast then past what is now Gambia, Senegal and Nigeria to Benin. Merchandise sold along the way bought some 500 slaves at Ouidah along with gold, Akan jewelry and ivory. From there, Captain Prince pointed the bow toward the Caribbean. Captives who didn’t survive stifling cramped conditions in the hold had a “burial at sea” by being tossed overboard. Inventory shrinkage was a cost of doing business in the slave trade. Surviving souls were exchanged in the Americas for precious metals, sugar, indigo, rum, logwood, pimento, ginger and medicinal supplies. As he began the return leg of the triangle, Captain Prince encountered one of the world’s most successful pirates, Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy, whose total plunder in today’s dollars would easily place him on the Forbes list of millionaires.

Samuel “BlackSam” Bellamy was quite a dashing figure. All that matters.com

Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy was a dashing figure – tall, bulked and bronzed from years under the sun in the physically demanding work aboard sailing ships. He accessorized his silk coats and stockings, and silver-buckled shoes with a sash of pistols, handy bling for a man in the piracy business. A silk bow tied his dense mane into a ponytail. He kept his coif in its natural jet black color, instead of dusting it with white powder as was the male sartorial style of the day, thus earning his “Black Sam” moniker.

Sam didn’t start out to be a pirate. He was born in Hittisleigh, Devon, England, on February 23, 1689, the youngest of six children of Stephen and Elizabeth Bellamy. His mother died shortly after his birth. He was fascinated with the sea early in life, joining the Royal Navy as a teen and even fighting a few battles. Military discipline was not his cup of tea, so in 1715 he set out to see the new British colonies, ostensibly to visit relatives on Cape Cod.

Seeing family was only a start on Bellamy’s New World adventure. A local beauty, Mariah “Goody” Hallett, caught his eye and his heart. Her family took a liking to the young suitor, but didn’t think the poor sailor was good marriage material for their saucy daughter. Sam set out to change their view of his financial prospects upon learning of the Spanish Treasure Fleet laden with gold that succumbed to a hurricane off Cuba in 1715. While he headed south, Mariah gave birth to their son, a love child who died as she kept it hidden in a hayloft. She was blamed for his death and thrown in the Old Jail at Barnstable, Massachusetts. Although Mariah was acquitted of murder, she was banished from the colony for her negligence. The jailing must have been jarring for docents swear her spirit is one of the specters haunting the nation’s first wooden jailhouse to this day.

X marks the spot of the Whydah wreck off Cape Cod on Cyprian Southbeck’s map. Thevintagenews.com

Sam had no luck finding the Spanish fleet with its pillaged Mayan gold. However, he fell in with fellow treasure hunters, a British privateer Benjamin Hornigold, who commanded the ship, Marie Anne, and his first mate Edward Teach, later known as “Blackbeard” the pirate. By the summer of 1716, the Marie Anne crew tired of Hornigold’s refusal to attack ships of British origin and mutinied. By popular vote, Bellamy was elected captain, then Hornigold and Teach were expelled from the ship. The remaining 90 crew hoisted a pirate flag then captured a second ship, the Sultana.

Democratic principles were the rule aboard pirate ships. Their diverse crews were men of all national and social origins; liberated slaves, escaped prisoners, indigenous people from islands and nations they visited, and some of lofty social status who hungered for adventure. Popular vote ruled all decisions, and spoils were split equitably among all crew. Black Sam developed a special reputation for fairness. The Prince of Pirates was also called the Robin Hood of the Seas, and his crews were his Merry Men.

Under Bellamy, the two ships could work in concert to overtake and raid other ships. In February of 1717, the pirates set their sights on the Whydah Gally as it sailed through the Windward Passage between Hispaniola and Cuba. Captain Prince quickly realized he didn’t have a chance, and surrendered his ship after the firing of a single shot across its bow. He was rewarded by being given the Sultana in exchange for the Whydah, which became Bellamy’s flag ship. The crew quickly upgraded it to its full 28-cannon complement, and removed the captain’s quarters to make it less top-heavy. The Whydah and the Marie Anne pointed their bows toward the Carolinas with a goal of reaching New England, where Black Sam could show he was no longer merely a poor sailor seeking Goody’s hand in marriage.

Whydah silver displayed at Houston Museum of Natural History. Theodore Scott / Flickr

Pillaging their way north, the crews overtook a sloop under the command of a Captain Beer. Bellamy wanted to leave the ship to its captain, but was outvoted by his crew. So Beer was pressed into service as the growing flotilla of pirate ships sailed northward. In all, some 55 ships were raided by the pirates, who gave crews the option of joining the Merry Men or leaving, oft aboard their mostly unharmed but emptied vessels.

Bellamy’s string of successes ended as he approached Cape Cod, intent on reuniting with his beloved Goody Hallett. Some tales hold he was lured too close to land by the disgruntled Captain Beer and others say it was solely a catastrophe wrought by chance of a powerful hundred-year nor’easter. Regardless, the Whydah was dashed on a sandbar approaching the Cape off what is now Wellfleet, Massachusetts, at 15 minutes after midnight on April 26, 1717. Masts snapped and the heavily-laden ship broke apart in minutes. Only two survived as 102 bodies washed ashore, leaving 42 crew unaccounted for, including Black Sam Bellamy. Survivors were Thomas Davis, a Welch carpenter, and John Julian, a 16-year-old Miskito Indian, who later was sold as a slave to the great-grandfather of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. The Marie Anne wrecked nearby, with seven survivors. Most were hanged for piracy, though carpenter Davis, who had been pressed into piracy against his will, was acquitted.

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Ship’s bell is on display at the Whydah Pirate Museum, Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Wikipedia

Hundreds of Cape Cod’s infamous salvaging “moon-cussers” quickly descended on Wellfleet’s Marconi Beach to scavenge what could be found of the Whydah’s treasure. By the time Massachusetts Governor Samuel Shute dispatched a local salvor named Cyprian Southback to recover its treasure and goods, most of the heavy cargo of gold, silver and cannons had sunk into the shifting sands of a debris field that stretched four miles along the shore. Southback also had been tasked with burying the bodies, but arrived too late for that as well. The job already had been done by the local coroner, who presented him with a bill for his services.

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New information on tickets for Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's Humor & Harmony Weekend.

For those who registered early, presale tickets for both Thursday, August 8, Big Bowl Comedy Show and Saturday, August 10, 50 Cent and Friends Music Performance go on sale June 27.

General tickets go on sale to the public July 1 at 10 A.M.

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Mark Schlereth won’t back down from his strong opinion of former Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s relationship with a young woman nearly 50 years his junior. 

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“He’s entitled to do whatever he wants to do and I am completely entitled to my opinion if you don’t like it pound sand,” Schlereth posted in response on X .

Schlereth is just one of many people to have weighed in on Belichick’s romance with Hudson, a 23-year-old former cheerleader at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, as headline after headline has emerged since their relationship became public knowledge earlier this month.

Belichick reportedly met Hudson during a flight to Florida in 2021 and the two started a romantic relationship in 2022 after he split with his longtime girlfriend Linda Holliday — with their breakup eventually being reported in September of 2023. 

Page Six reported that month that Belichick and Holliday had been involved in a drawn-out, back-and-forth breakup for nearly a year.

Since Belichick and his Gen Z boo were outed by TMZ, the couple has been more out and about than previously with the two captured taking out Belichick’s $225,000 boat in Nantucket and then spotted out for a dinner date. 

A new report from People on Tuesday indicated that those close to the former NFL coach felt that the relationship wasn’t “a serious, long-term thing.”

Belichick and Hudson have not addressed the relationship publicly.

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No, Selective Service registration bill doesn't reinstitute draft | Fact check

The claim: US government is forcing men 18-26 to join the military

A June 16 Facebook video ( direct link , archive link ) shows a man claiming America has reinstituted a draft.

"The US Forcing Men To The Military (sic)," reads the on-screen text. "Men Ages 18-26 Gotta Go."

The post garnered more than 4,000 shares in two days. Other versions of the claim were shared on Facebook , Threads and X, formerly Twitter .

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Our rating: False

This is a misrepresentation of a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would automatically register men between the ages of 18 and 25 for the Selective Service. The bill does not draft or automatically enlist anyone, it simply makes registration automatic instead of requiring each person to do it individually.

House bill would amend pre-existing registration law

The House of Representatives passed HR 8070 , also known as the "Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act," on June 14. The bill, which has not yet been signed into law, would automatically register all male U.S. citizens and men residing in the U.S. who are at least 18 and not yet 26 in the Selective Service. The automatic registration wouldn't apply to "lawful nonimmigrants" described in the Immigration and Nationality Act , such as foreign ambassadors and aliens visiting the country temporarily for business, according to the bill.

This registration isn't a new requirement, however.

The bill's text says it aims to amend the Military Selective Service Act , which already requires men in this age group to register for the Selective Service.

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Justine Tripathi , a spokesperson for the House Armed Services Committee , which is chaired by the bill's sponsor Rep. Mike Rogers , told USA TODAY the Facebook post misrepresents the contents of the bill.

“Under current law, men who are U.S. citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are required to register for the Selective Service," she said in an email. "A provision in the House-passed NDAA would automatically register all men, who are U.S. citizens (or are residing in the U.S.) and between the ages of 18 and 25, for the Selective Service. Failure to register for the Selective Service can impact employment and the ability to receive government assistance but sometimes young men are unaware they need to register for the Selective Service until it’s too late. This provision would eliminate those future headaches."

It is currently a federal felony to not register for the Selective Service if you're part of the aforementioned group of men. The crime is "punishable by fines or a prison sentence" and may affect eligibility for federal jobs, citizenship or state-funded student financial aid.

Tripathi also noted there hasn't been an active draft in over 50 years , and establishing one would require a separate act.

USA TODAY reached out to the user who shared the post for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Our fact-check sources:

• Justine Tripathi , June 17, Email exchange with USA TODAY
• Congress.gov, H.R.8070 – Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025
• Selective Service System, Aug. 5, 2003, Military Selective Service Act
• Selective Service System, accessed June 17, Home
• USA.gov, May 13, Register for Selective Service (the draft)

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