The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The ninth annual Boston Comedy Festival starts next month, and, as in past years, the centerpiece of the weeklong fest is its stand-up comedy contest. Having served as a judge for part of this contest in 2005 and 2006, and having witnessed other parts of it, I’m still struck by …
I got to see Jeffrey Ross gear up for his new one-hour special with a couple of run-throughs during the Comic Strip Live 50-hour marathon, which happened a few days before the taping in June. So you can click on that madness on my site to relive my first thoughts …
How could downtown Boston not have a regular working comedy club?* That was the question I had when the Comedy Connection closed down at the beginning of the summer (yes, it has moved to the Wilbur Theatre, but as you can see from the schedule, it’s not so much of …
Seeing Craig Robinson in Montreal this summer at the keyboard, something about it looked very familiar, even though I couldn’t place it at the time. This was the guy from The Office and Judd Apatow productions Knocked Up and Pineapple Express, on the keyboards? I knew it made sense somehow. …
NBC finally confirmed this afternoon what more than a few of us already had heard through the grapevine…Saturday Night Live has hired UCB’s Bobby Moynihan to join the cast this fall. The 34th season debuts Sept. 13. Congrats! Related: Recent comedy stylings of Bobby Moynihan.
If you follow the comings and goings of Human Giant (and since it’s the best sketch comedy show on TV these days, you really should be), then you may have noticed this week that the guys went crazy blogging about their attendance at the after-party Monday night for the latest …
Speaking of fringe festivals, these also are the final few days for the FringeNYC, which is more theatrical in nature than about the stand-up comedy. But that’s not stopping some comedians I know from taking part. Jena Friedman just moved to New York City from Chicago and brought the musical …
Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler made the shortlist yesterday for the if.comedy prize (still better known as the Perriers) from the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The other nominees are Irishman David O’Doherty, Welshman Rhod Gilbert and Englishman Russell Kane, with the winner announced Saturday at midnight. But what about the …
In my recent interview with rising comedian John Mulaney, we also got to talk about the TV writing he has done already in the past year (before starting work this week on the writing staff of SNL). Mulaney spent more than a bit of his summer writing for the upcoming …
It only seems like we have had to wait eight months for this video to land on the Internet because it has taken eight months for this video to resurface online. So, with that, enjoy Dave Hill and his friend, Little Michael Jackson, in their most absurd fracas yet. For …