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Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Roastmaster Jeff Ross Lands Venue For Broadway Summer Stand, Sets Opening Date
Emmy-nominated comedian Jeff Ross will bring his new theatrical solo show to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre this August. While a Broadway run was previously announced, the venue and opening night are being announced today. Jeff Ross: Take A Banana For The Ride will begin previews at the Nederlander on Tuesday, August 5, with an an official opening night on Monday, August 18. The eight-week limited engagement will play through Sunday, September 29. More from Deadline 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More 'Oh, Mary!' Breaks House Record As Cole Escola's Starring Run Nears End; Overall Receipts Drop As Hollywood Goes Home - Broadway Box Office 'Real Women Have Curves' Announces Broadway Closing Ross, known as The Roastmaster General for his three-decade run of celebrity roasts, will provide what the Banana synopsis says is 'a strikingly rare insight into his life, and that Take A Banana For The Ride is named 'for his beloved grandfather's practical and loving travel advice.' Continues the synopsis, 'this exhilaratingly intimate one-man show offers a peeled back look into the heart and soul of America's Roastmaster – but don't expect to get away un-skewered.' Take A Banana For The Ride will be directed on Broadway by Stephen Kessler, with creative consultation by Jeff Calhoun, and dramaturgy by Seth Barrish. The show is produced by Eric Nederlander, Robert Nederlander Jr., Marc Cornstein, and Tony Eisenberg, with ShowTown Productions serving as Executive Producer. 'Ever since my Aunt Bess took me to see Jackie Mason on Broadway when I was young, I've daydreamed about performing my own classy and uncensored one-man show,' said Ross in a statement. 'I'm honored and excited by the opportunity to share my origin story of how I became the motherf*n Roastmaster General! This new show is designed to be a cathartic experience shared with others – I encourage you to bring friends that you care about, people that might be going through tough times. I will shake them out of it with an evening of uncensored jokes, uplifting stories, songs and even some live roasting of the bravest volunteers.' Best of Deadline 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series 'Stick' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out? 'The Buccaneers' Season 2 Soundtrack: From Griff To Sabrina Carpenter
Yahoo
19-06-2025
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Comedian Jeff Ross Shares How Doctor Jokingly Told Him He Had Colon Cancer
Comedian Jeff Ross Shares How Doctor Jokingly Told Him He Had Colon Cancer originally appeared on Parade. Jeff Ross is known for eliciting laughter from crowds, but the legendary roast master, 59, faced a scary situation when he learned he had colon cancer after a routine colonoscopy. But despite the scary diagnosis, the comedian's doctor delivered the news untraditionally, Ross recalled on the Wednesday episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. "My oncologist was like, 'Jeff, the good news and bad news. The bad news is you're going to need six months of chemo. The good news is you lost your hair a long time ago,' " he shared. Ross had been urged by a friend to undergo his first colonoscopy due to his age. "I was already in my 50s, and I'd never gotten a colonoscopy," he admitted to Kimmel. "I went in, I had no symptoms, and I had a tumor in my colon. You always think it's never going to happen to you, and it happened to me." After having 7 inches of his colon removed, Ross said, "Now I have a semicolon." 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 While he's doing great health-wise these days, there are remnants of his surgery. "You know, I had laparoscopic surgery so I have holes around here," Ross said, pointing to his chest. "Little holes. I'm like 50 Cent if instead of getting shot, he ate pastrami twice a week for 50 years." The journey also turned into creative fuel for Ross, who channeled it all into his new Broadway show, Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride, which debuts this summer. Despite the blend of comedy and reality in the show, Ross said he thinks it's important to speak out about his experience. "I don't want the show to be maudlin, but I think it's important to address it. Norm was very private and hid his sickness," he said, referencing his dear friend Norm MacDonald, who died in 2021. "I didn't think that was fair to the audience and his friends, so I'm putting it out there. But I don't want people to feel sorry for me. It's going to be a very empowering and bold statement on how to get through tough times." View this post on Instagram A post shared by TAKE A BANANA FOR THE RIDE on Broadway (@jeffrossbway)Comedian Jeff Ross Shares How Doctor Jokingly Told Him He Had Colon Cancer first appeared on Parade on Jun 19, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 19, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
19-06-2025
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Comedian Jeff Ross Reveals How Doctor Jokingly Delivered His Colon Cancer Diagnosis: 'Good News and Bad News'
During a June 18 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jeff Ross revealing a savage joke that his doctor delivered while sharing his colon cancer diagnosis "My oncologist was like, 'Jeff, the good news and bad news. The bad news is you're going to need six months of chemo. The good news is you lost your hair a long time ago,' " he recalled Ross had 7 inches of his colon surgically removed in the summer of 2024Jeff Ross can appreciate a joke, even in the most dire situations. The 59-year-old comedian, known as the "roast master general" for his performances in celebrity roasts over the years, even found some humor in a joke his doctor delivered when he was diagnosed with colon cancer. During a Wednesday, June 18, appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Ross reflected on his diagnosis and having seven inches of his colon removed via laparoscopic surgery in the summer of 2024. Recalling the moment that he learned about the diagnosis, he said that his doctor shared it with a savage joke. "My oncologist was like, 'Jeff, the good news and bad news. The bad news is you're going to need six months of chemo. The good news is you lost your hair a long time ago,' " he shared. Ross explained that he was diagnosed after having his first colonoscopy at the urging of a friend. "I was already in my 50's, and I'd never gotten a colonoscopy," he admitted. "I went in, I had no symptoms, and I had a tumor in my colon. You always think it's never going to happen to you, and it happened to me." He poked fun at losing some of his colon, saying, "Now I have a semicolon." His surgery and remaining scars also provided some material for a joke: "You know, I had laparoscopic surgery so I have holes around here [singalling his torso and chest]. Little holes. I'm like 50 Cent if instead of getting shot, he ate pastrami twice a week for 50 years." Ross addresses his cancer diagnosis and treatment in his one-man show Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride, which is heading to Broadway for the summer. Speaking to The Minnesota Star Tribune in March 2025, he said that he was "still trying to figure it out" regarding incorporating the experience into the act. "I don't want the show to be maudlin, but I think it's important to address it," he said. "Norm [Macdonald, his close friend who died in 2021] was very private and hid his sickness. I didn't think that was fair to the audience and his friends, so I'm putting it out there. But I don't want people to feel sorry for me. It's going to be a very empowering and bold statement on how to get through tough times." The comedian's brush with cancer isn't the only medical emergency that he's approached in a joking manner. In April 2025, Ross revealed that he spent the night in an emergency room after developing a serious allergic reaction to something that he ate. "It was my first allergic reaction ever," he wrote on Instagram at the time. "I guess that's pretty remarkable considering I'm constantly shoving whatever food is in front of me into my face." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel, Ross joked about his dramatically swollen appearance triggered by the reaction, "It looks like I got hit in the face with some nunchucks." Since they have "no idea" what he caused the reaction, he added that he will need to carry an EpiPen "for the rest of my life until it happens again." "I'm like a little kid with a peanut allergy," he teased. Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride opens on Broadway on August 5 at the Nederlander Theatre. Ticket information is available here. Read the original article on People
San Francisco Chronicle
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Jeff Ross to make his Broadway debut this summer in one-man show that's far from a roast
NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Ross, a comedian known for hosting brutal roasts of celebrities, is coming to Broadway this summer with a one-man autobiographical show that will offer fans a softer, more intimate side. 'The hard part for me is letting go of a bit of my armor — of my roastmaster persona — and letting the audience get to me so that I can then get them,' he tells The Associated Press ahead of a formal announcement Wednesday. 'I think it's healthy to change it up and surprise people.' 'Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride' will play the Nederlander Theatre starting Aug. 5 for an eight-week engagement through Sept. 29. The show will explore Ross' close relatives, especially his grandfather on his mother's side — Ross calls him 'the hero of my childhood' — who stepped up after the comedian's parents died when he was a teenager. 'It's very autobiographical, but it's also not really about just me. It's about all of us. When I talk about my uncle or my mom, I want you to see your uncle and your mom in the stories. That's really important to me,' Ross says. 'It's very joyful. It kind of takes the stigma out of loss and sickness and lets people know that they're going to be OK no matter what happens.' The title comes from the days when Ross was living with his grandfather in New Jersey. The younger man would take his grandfather to doctor visits or visit him in the hospital during the day and at night go into New York for open-mic nights. 'My grandfather would always give me money for the bus and a banana, and he'd say, 'Take a banana for the ride.' I reluctantly took it, and more often than not, I'd be stuck in traffic, or I'd get low blood sugar, and that banana would be a lifesaver,' says Ross. 'But it was really his way of saying, 'Be ready for anything' and also, 'I can't go with you but I'm there with you in spirit.' So it was an emotional thing, it was a practical thing. It's something that I still do.' Ross is known as 'The Roastmaster General' for his incendiary takedowns of Justin Bieber, Rob Lowe, Alec Baldwin and Tom Brady, among many others. The seeds for 'Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride' were planted in the mid-1990s when Ross gathered jokes and stories about his grandfather for an hourlong set. But digging up the past proved too much. 'I couldn't sustain it emotionally. It was just too much for me as a 30-year-old guy,' Ross says. 'But now, 30 years later, I can dig in and look back and add a layer of experience over it all.' He was spurred on in large part to losing three comedic friends — Bob Saget, Gilbert Gottfried and Norm Macdonald — within eight months. 'That motivated me to look back at the old show from decades earlier and rewrite it completely for my current brain and my current skill set.' Ross will be the latest comedian to come to Broadway, following John Mulaney, Mike Birbiglia, Alex Edelman, Amy Schumer, Keegan-Michael Key, Rachel Dratch, Billy Crystal and Colin Quinn. Bill Burr made his Broadway debut this year in a revival of 'Glengarry Glen Ross.' Ross reaches back even further. His aunt took him to see Jackie Mason's 'The World According to Me!' in the 1980s, and the young comedian was floored by the comedian's captivating set. 'It was elegant, but it was also punk rock because he was being bawdy and naughty and hilarious and saying taboo things and it really, really stayed with me for a long, long time.'
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
Jeff Ross to make his Broadway debut this summer in one-man show that's far from a roast
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Ross, a comedian known for hosting brutal roasts of celebrities, is coming to Broadway this summer with a one-man autobiographical show that will offer fans a softer, more intimate side. 'The hard part for me is letting go of a bit of my armor — of my roastmaster persona — and letting the audience get to me so that I can then get them,' he tells The Associated Press ahead of a formal announcement Wednesday. 'I think it's healthy to change it up and surprise people.' 'Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride' will play the Nederlander Theatre starting Aug. 5 for an eight-week engagement through Sept. 29. The show will explore Ross' close relatives, especially his grandfather on his mother's side — Ross calls him 'the hero of my childhood' — who stepped up after the comedian's parents died when he was a teenager. 'It's very autobiographical, but it's also not really about just me. It's about all of us. When I talk about my uncle or my mom, I want you to see your uncle and your mom in the stories. That's really important to me,' Ross says. 'It's very joyful. It kind of takes the stigma out of loss and sickness and lets people know that they're going to be OK no matter what happens.' The title comes from the days when Ross was living with his grandfather in New Jersey. The younger man would take his grandfather to doctor visits or visit him in the hospital during the day and at night go into New York for open-mic nights. 'My grandfather would always give me money for the bus and a banana, and he'd say, 'Take a banana for the ride.' I reluctantly took it, and more often than not, I'd be stuck in traffic, or I'd get low blood sugar, and that banana would be a lifesaver,' says Ross. 'But it was really his way of saying, 'Be ready for anything' and also, 'I can't go with you but I'm there with you in spirit.' So it was an emotional thing, it was a practical thing. It's something that I still do.' Ross is known as 'The Roastmaster General' for his incendiary takedowns of Justin Bieber, Rob Lowe, Alec Baldwin and Tom Brady, among many others. The seeds for 'Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride' were planted in the mid-1990s when Ross gathered jokes and stories about his grandfather for an hourlong set. But digging up the past proved too much. 'I couldn't sustain it emotionally. It was just too much for me as a 30-year-old guy,' Ross says. 'But now, 30 years later, I can dig in and look back and add a layer of experience over it all.' He was spurred on in large part to losing three comedic friends — Bob Saget, Gilbert Gottfried and Norm Macdonald — within eight months. 'That motivated me to look back at the old show from decades earlier and rewrite it completely for my current brain and my current skill set.' Ross will be the latest comedian to come to Broadway, following John Mulaney, Mike Birbiglia, Alex Edelman, Amy Schumer, Keegan-Michael Key, Rachel Dratch, Billy Crystal and Colin Quinn. Bill Burr made his Broadway debut this year in a revival of 'Glengarry Glen Ross.' Ross reaches back even further. His aunt took him to see Jackie Mason's 'The World According to Me!' in the 1980s, and the young comedian was floored by the comedian's captivating set. 'It was elegant, but it was also punk rock because he was being bawdy and naughty and hilarious and saying taboo things and it really, really stayed with me for a long, long time.'
