The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Here’s a sneak peek of Theo Von, who appears on tonight’s edition of Live at Gotham on Comedy Central. Von got his TV break on MTV via Road Rules, then decided to pursue comedy, and got on last season’s Last Comic Standing via an online contest. Related: The current season …
It’s true. After three decades on the Upper East Side, the Comic Strip Live is opening up…a second club…on the Upper West Side. The new location, 158 W. 72nd St., is between Broadway and Columbus. Formerly known as The Triad. Soft opening tonight. Want to look at part of a …
Eight finalists have made it to tonight to compete for nice prize money and who knows what other rewards at the inaugural Great American Comedy Festival. And they are… Erin Jackson, Shane Mauss, Deacon Gray, Marianne Sierk, Chris Coccia, Drake Witham, Jim McDonald and Chuck Bartell. Really a cross-section of …
Summertime, and the comedy is easy to find, even outside here in New York City. Central Park SummerStage offers its first "Comedy Central Park" of the season tonight with Stephen Lynch, Mike Birbiglia and Julian McCullough. It’s free! Down at Tompkins Square Park, NY Laughs offers its second free summer …
After catching up with a friend and finally seeing the new weekly Williamsburg comedy show, Big Terrific, which under the control of hosts Gabe & Jenny and Max Silvestri, and in the venue of Sound Fix Records lounge, is fairly big and terrific, I get home and what to my …
Don’t let this picture fool you. Match Game is returning to TV, with two tapings today in Los Angeles at CBS. But Sarah Silverman isn’t hosting. She’ll be one of the celebrity panelists. UPDATE: The other panelists for the pilot, shot at CBS but for TBS, were Norm MacDonald, Scott …
Did you know a music and comedy and spoken word and art show began touring the country this week, and it’s called F Yeah? Now you know. The tour began Tuesday in Baltimore and circles around the South, Southwest, Midwest and clockwise around before finishing in New York City on …
If you had bet me a nickel that Crackle would be around longer than Super Deluxe, well, then, you would have yourself one of my nickels, and it still wouldn’t make any cents to me (homonym alert!) that Turner would drop the ball on SD. At least Sony keeps on …
Remember a couple of years ago when everyone in the New York downtown comedy scene got all not-verklempt and oh-my-goodnesses because Mike Myers was showing up to do improv at the Magnet Theater and sometimes in character as a guy named Guru Pitka? Neither do I. But I heard all …
Conan O’Brien has welcomed some beautiful musical moments on his late-night TV show and some truly rocking bands. And then on Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, he had Detroit Octane on the program. And he even introduced them as a parody act. Amazingly, this was perhaps the third time …