Comedy Central announces first-ever Colossal Clusterfest, June 2-4, 2017 in San Francisco
by Almost as if I’d just produced my annual list of comedy festivals and asked the folks at Superfly for details about their planned summer shindig …
Month: February 2017
The definitive guide to comedy festivals for 2017
PLEASE GO TO MY NEWLY CREATED COMEDY FESTIVALS PAGE FOR A MORE TIMELESS LISTING OF ALL OF THE FESTIVALS Last year, it seemed as if …
Episode #139: Billy Gardell
Emmy-nominated actor and comedian Billy Gardell starred in the hit CBS sitcom, Mike & Molly as Officer Mike Biggs for six seasons, and you can …
Jimmy Kimmel’s very Jimmy Kimmel brand of the Academy Awards
Everyone’s talking about how the Oscars ended last night, but everything that came before that Best Picture mixup was very on brand for Jimmy Kimmel, …
John Mulaney and Nick Kroll’s opening monologue for the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards
Oh, Hello! John Mulaney and Nick Kroll have such great comedy chemistry and timing, built up over the years and refined to a peak with …
Carmen Lynch on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Carmen Lynch performed on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and she finds herself here more reflective of the aging process, whether …
2016: The year we doubled the number of stand-up comedy specials. 2017: Doubling again?
If you’re wondering why I haven’t gotten back to you about your stand-up comedy album, then please allow me to remind you just what kind …
After a terrible, no-good 2016, where do we go from here in 2017? Find the joy
Last year feels so much farther away than two months ago, doesn’t it? At the end of 2016, so many of us felt melancholy, lamenting …
Alec Baldwin will host a night of comedy about bad parenting at Carolines on Broadway
For all of the things you’ve heard about Donald Trump, at least it seems as though he loves his kids. It seems that way, doesn’t …
R.I.P. Alan Colmes (1950-2017)
He may be remembered today as the one man who kept Sean Hannity in check for 13 years, or even as a radio talk-show giant …