Day: August 7, 2018

My colleague on the West Coast, freelance comedy journalist Julie Seabaugh, has turned many late Tuesday nights at The Comedy Store into a brand-new book documenting the rise of Roast Battle from open mic experiment in the Belly Room to Comedy Central TV series and countless official and unofficial versions in comedy clubs around the world. With dozens of pages of exclusive photographs from Troy Conrad, “Ringside at Roast Battle” makes you feel as if you’ve been there all along, too. From the book’s introduction: Five years since its inception, Roast Battle remains the most adventurous, influential comedy show in the...