The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Some of you know that I used to perform both improv and stand-up comedy. Some of you had no idea. Either way, I thought that if you’re going to come and visit and see what I have to say about the comedy world, then you might be curious to see …
After spending last year off-Broadway exploring her Vaudevillian side, Margaret Cho returned to stand-up this year, and also is returning to TV with her own "reality" program, The Cho Show, debuting Aug. 21 on VH1. Here is the "supertrailer" for it: VH1 TV Shows Music Videos Celebrity Photos News & …
Dana Carvey talks to the San Jose Mercury News about returning to stand-up after "semi-retiring" to be a husband and father: "I’ve been at this for 25 years," Carvey says. "I did SNL. I did some movies. My kids have grown up. I’ve saved a lot of money — that …
Opie and Anthony have provided a great service to stand-up comedy by having comedians appear as regular guests on their FM and satellite radio programs over the years, but their efforts to translate that partnership into a live comedy tour, aka the Traveling Virus, has failed. Because their "fans" known …
Jim Tews is a stand-up comedian from Cleveland looking to take the next step in his career, and this online video series with HBO Labs called "The Opener" documents that process. Sort of. Not really. But it’s a funny look inside the comedy world, with episodes featuring Ian Bagg, Jen …
Variety’s Emmy coverage looks at the acting categories and concludes, "Standups no longer rule sitcom world." They go to Charlie Sheen for comedy advice and expertise. E-gads. I’ll simply refer you back to what I wrote about the state of the standup sitcom in March.
Only now unwinding from my second tour through the Upright Citizen Brigade’s Del Close Marathon, which ended Sunday night (though starting the tour after an all-nighter to Washington, D.C., and back probably contributed to the fatigue on my end), and wished, as I did last summer, that I had gotten …
Dane Cook wrote today about how much he does not like the new poster for his upcoming movie, My Best Friend’s Girl. He outlines all of the problems he has with it, and concludes: "Granted, one poster stinking up the joint isn’t the end of the world. Yet it sends …
The funniest thing I’ve seen on Sony’s CSpot just so happens to have been filmed in my neighborhood this summer. Coincidence? Who cares. Just sit back and enjoy the online series, "The Line," featuring the crazed fans of the fictional movie FutureSpace, including Bill Hader, Joe Lo Truglio, Jon Glaser, …
Big weekends don’t begin on Fridays, but rather on Thursdays, so that’s how I found myself on a bus to Washington, District of Columbia, last week to arrive just in time for the kickoff of last weekend’s DC Comedyfest. Someone joked that night that D.C. really was hosting the Chicago …