Day: June 8, 2009

Eugene Mirman, Lexington High School class of 1992 graduate, returned over the weekend to deliver the commencement speech to Lexington's class of 2009. I heard him rehearse the speech at a comedy show in Brooklyn last week, which was funny since we were in a dark club, and funnier to see how it plays under the bright lights of a gym. With parents. The laughs come in different, awkward places. Mirman also put the transcript up on his...

Seeing Chris Rock's most recent HBO special — filmed in England and South Africa in addition to here at home in New York City — gave us a sense of how American stand-up comedians are going global. Is it the Internet? It's the Internet, right? Fans cited YouTube and Facebook in how they got to know and love ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, in this new video documenting Dunham's weeklong tour across Europe: Dunham next tours through Canada, where Dane Cook also has been playing to arena-sized audiences. Here's a Bubble Tweet he sent out before performing last night for 18,000 fans in...