Episode #11: Andy Kindler
by Andy Kindler becomes the ultimate “comic’s comic” each July when he delivers the annual State of the Industry Address at the Just For Laughs comedy …
Month: August 2015
Jon Rineman on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jon Rineman is a writer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and on Friday night’s show, Rineman emerged from behind the scenes to perform some …
Tom Papa on “Conan”
Tom Papa has enjoyed a lazy summer with his wife and kids. Which, as he explained on Thursday night’s Conan, means he’s not going to …
They’re running for president: Yes, and? Chris Gethard finds room for improv-ment among GOP candidates
Friend of the site Katla McGlynn took an Improv 101 comedy class from Chris Gethard a decade ago at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Last …
FX Networks expands relationships with two new sitcom orders: “Better Things” and “Cassius and Clay”
FX Networks is making its big splash today before the TV Critics Association by announcing two new series that expands FX and FXX’s relationships with …
Oh, to be a woman in stand-up comedy in Miami in 2015
Miami New Times profiled the women making comedy in Miami in 2015, so read the stories from Kat Toledo, Emily Winter, Natalie Prager-Newman, Dominique Gelin, …
A look at the “Laughing Lunch” program by ComedyCures
I joked with Saranne Rothberg that I somehow see her more often in other cities at comedy festivals than I do in New York City, …
#JonVoyage: Jon Stewart’s final episode of The Daily Show
In case you missed it — and if you tried to DVR or otherwise record it instead of watching in real time, you did — …
Last Comic Standing 9: The Invitationals, Part 3
Last Comic Standing‘s third of four “Invitational” rounds continues to cut, cut, cut — so much so that if you’re not making it to the …
Episode #10: Bobcat Goldthwait and Barry Crimmins, “Call Me Lucky”
Bobcat Goldthwait wouldn’t have ever been “Bobcat” if he hadn’t met Barry Crimmins first, some three decades ago when Goldthwait was a teenager in upstate …