The Definitive Guide to Comedy
One thing comedians always love to mention about the New York City scene is the ability to book multiple gigs any night of the week. They don’t often mention that all of these gigs are not equal. Take Tuesday night, for example, when Daily Show correspondent John Oliver taped a …
I heard Mark Douglas perform this song acoustically last night at the Drink at Work show at Ochi’s Lounge, which was fun and all, but I wish he’d mentioned this music video. What’s it like to work with Obama Girl, Mark??? Enjoy. (It’s also on the YouTube here)
Mortified returned to New York City for another production at Comix on Monday night, in which real people share stories and written personal documents from their formative, and always mortifying, adolescence — the premise being, that years later, those journals, diary entries, artistic endeavors and everything else can be looked …
The Village Voice reviews last week’s Rock ‘n ROFL, describes comedians as "not-quite-midlevel" (whatever that means) despite headline proclaiming them "princes of comedy," possibly revealing crush on Greg Johnson and definitely a comedy crush on Reggie Watts.
Crackle arrived on the scene during the great online comedy video gold rush of 2007 in which many sites appeared but few managed to grab permanent hold on our collective consciousness. Remember This Just In (HBO/AOL) and Dot Comedy (NBC)? Of course you don’t, unless you worked for those sites …
Note to self: Remember to consult this post by Alex Blagg on the Top 10 Tips for Writing an Awesomely Funny Top 10 List on the Internet first. So noted.
Mike Birbiglia’s latest special, What I Should Have Said Was Nothing: Tales From My Secret Public Journal, released today. You’ve seen some of it already on Comedy Central (which broadcast about 44 minutes of it in February, and video clips plus my interview with Birbiglia then can be found here). …
Today marks the launch of Videogum, the Stereogum spinoff helmed by leading bloggers Gabe Delahaye and Lindsay Robertson. They also co-host the monthly Ritalin Readings series at the Slipper Room, so now they’re doubly delicious. If that makes sense. You can see how well they already work together by reading …
CBS trots out Secret Talents of the Stars tonight (10 p.m. Eastern), with the aforementioned stars pitted against each other in brackets. Clint Black takes on Sasha Cohen in comedy. No, not Sacha Baron Cohen, but rather, the figure skater. And her "secret talent" is a contortionist routine. Alrighty then. …
Bob Odenkirk, Rachel Blanchard and Phil Hendrie will join the pilot for Mike Birbiglia’s potential CBS sitcom, Mike Birbiglia’s Secret Public Journal. (THR) Birbiglia stars as himself. Odenkirk plays his older brother (Joe Bags?). Blanchard plays his "sensible but adorable live-in girlfriend," while Hendrie portrays his doctor (or will he …