The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A nation’s comedy eyes may mostly be focused on New York City this weekend, but don’t let that stop the fine folks from Cleveland from mounting their first-ever Cleveland Comedy Festival this weekend, with shows last night and today at the Hermit Club. Wait. You’re wondering why this fest isn’t …
When I heard that Dave Chappelle was taping another episode of Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio earlier this year, I wondered why, because Chappelle seemingly had covered everything you’d want to know and ask of him already on the program. Turns out Chappelle isn’t the guest, but rather the special …
On the same day that many mainstream media outlets, and even the new media mainstreamers, were asking if The Daily Show and comedy could survive an Obama administration, they also reported on what kind of puppy the Obamas would bring with them to the White House. Irony is alive and …
DEVELOPING…Katt Williams has resurfaced after missing Conan last night, sneaking in the back door of Carnegie Hall at 8:36 pm Thursday night. Opener Wil Sylvince still killing time, but Williams about to take the stage. It’s 9:08 as Katt appears.Full report to come. “I just got out of jail 35 …
If you were to ask me at the start of the 2008 New York’s Funniest Stand-Up contest, who I thought would win, well, someone did, and before I could say "John Mulaney" (whoops, he’s not even in the contest? wait, what? oh, right, Mulaney is headlining at the Punchline in …
The 29th annual edition of the Seattle Comedy Competition begins tonight with 16 comedians beginning a weeklong battle of preliminary stand-up contests across Washington state. Another group of 16 stand-ups will enter their preliminaries Nov. 11-16. Five from each prelim make it to a week of semifinal competition, with five …
Friend and fellow funny reporter winner Mandy Stadtmiller interviewed Sarah Silverman, Tracy Morgan, Joel McHale and Louis CK in advance of this week’s New York Comedy Festival for the New York Post (an official fest media partner). In print, we only got a taste from each of the comics. Online, …
I am otherwise occupied this Election Day, so I won’t be attending an election-related comedy show, or perhaps even seeing it on TV, and maybe not even monitoring any liveblogs. But that doesn’t mean you cannot have fun (or hide out) tonight as the vote totals start coming in… In …
We can all agree that there is no place for heckling in a comedy club. Just because you’re drunk, or because you want to hear a particular joke, or even because you think you’re "helping" the comedian, well, you’re not helping. You’re interrupting the performance that everyone else gladly paid …
When Sacha Baron Cohen pulled off the trick of "Borat" on enough unsuspecting Americans (mostly targeting the Bible Belt portions of the South who’d be more likely not to have known him or his character from HBO, and also easier pickings to mock their beliefs and values), many fans and …