The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Within the past 15 minutes, seemingly half of the capacity crowd has made their moves for the exits, following Jeffrey Ross toward the door at the end of his 50-minute set. I happen to be in the lobby when this happens, having filmed a short improvised riff with Rory Albanese …
Mike Birbiglia goes onstage and immediately fills the audience in on my presence liveblogging the event. The lights go up. A couple of hundred heads swivel my way. "So what’s been the highlight so far?" Birbiglia asks me. Pause. "Well, I guess this would have to be the highlight," I …
Gary Gulman opened with a quick quip about wanting "to set the record for beards of bees" before setting down his recording device on the stool onstage. "But first, I’m going to record this, so you can see where you can do better…because you might mail it in," Gulman said, …
I now have watched 24 hours of continuous stand-up comedy without napping, dozing or otherwise passing out from exhaustion. Our host, William Stephenson, has just told the audience that this not only will be a record-setting show, but also "the best f#%&ing comedy show in the history of the universe." …
Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, the late-night half-hour chat show for comedians that features the least actual chat of any TV show I know, will get two more seasons — or 260 episodes — to blatantly promote stand-up comedians. Which is ultimately still a good thing. Right? The series already …
There’s a nine-year-old boy in the audience, and that throws our host off until he realizes the boy is the son of Paul Mecurio, who has returned for his second set of the day. Mecurio is back to work the crowd, and a young Indian man beats him to the …
I entered the club 24 hours ago, we’ve seen 22 hours of stand-up comedy, and a new audience is beginning to trickle in before they begin charging (host William Stephenson, who has taken only a couple of quick naps, just said cover charges would kick in at 7 p.m.), and …
Just because I won’t be there doesn’t mean you cannot decide to take in the special wonderment that is Brett Gelman’s "1,000 Cats," which he restages tonight at his weekly Gelmania showcase at Rififi in New York City’s East Village. Earlier: My review of Brett Gelman’s "1,000 Cats."
An up-and-down afternoon heads into everyone else’s Happy Hour with the departure of the young women from Baltimore via Israel (they’d been here since 2 a.m.), leaving the young guy with the pillow and headband as the other really longterm fan (here since 12:30 a.m.) still hanging tough in the …
Dave Hill took his fuzzy microphone and his endearing demeanor to the New York Comic Con, and Super Deluxe got around to uploading the video today. So here it is. Enjoy! The strong language on the warning label? It’s for one profanity at the very end.