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I made two distinct notes while watching Dan Mintz tape his first Comedy Central Presents half-hour special last summer. First, Mintz seems to go for a lot of awkward silences. Is that a stylistic choice? I must ask him someday. Second, this was the first time I’d seen him do …
Brian Lowry’s column last week in Variety ("Why standups are sitting out primetime") certainly got my fellow comedy bloggers boiling their blood. Read what Shecky Magazine had to say here, while Punchline Magazine weighed in more recently here. Lowry lays down a couple of whoppers…mostly in the middle of valid …
Brian Posehn gets his second Comedy Central Presents on the air tonight, and coincidentally, he’ll be headlining Comix in New York City this weekend. When I saw him at the tapings in August, Posehn was very nice, and even watched the comedians the night before him perform. In his set …
Want to hear more about the infamous Gallagher show in New York City two weeks ago? I was on the radio last night (along with The Onion’s Amelie Gillette) talking with Luke Burbank about it on his Seattle radio program, Too Beautiful To Live, on KIRO 710 AM. You can …
When a comedian asked me a few months ago if I’d seen Charlie Rose’s interview with Steve Martin and his new book, I said no, sorry. The comedian replied, no worries, it’s all online, along with everyone else who’s chatted with Rose. Great, I thought. Until I tried to navigate …
Ben Bailey, photographed by The Comic’s Comic last summer cleaning up on a Comedy Cellar cruise, spoke today at an event honoring New York City’s best taxi drivers. Wait. Did you think I meant comedy hacks? Nope. Hacks as in cabbies. The New York Daily News published a brief profile …
Ultimate blogger Alex Blagg (currently steering the ship that is Best Week Ever online) blogged today about how he and Ultimate Fighting champ Rampage Jackson once wrestled each other in high school in Memphis. And that Blagg had prevailed. Jackson has bulked up a bit since then. And become a …
I saw this story today on the Huffington Post and couldn’t believe it was possible (headline: NBC President Mocks Writers, Strike In Upcoming ‘My Name is Earl’ Commercial), but then I saw the attached video. Yikes. What is Jeff Zucker thinking exactly? Especially since they uploaded the video early on …
All the way from Swampscott, Mass., here comes Ronna Glickman and Beverly Kahn, aka Ronna and Bev…or is it Beverly and Ronna from Marblehead?….at any rate, the duo (Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo) will host a live show at the UCB Theatre in New York City on April 10 with …
Comedy Central announced today it would go forward with two new shows, and neither is the show you’re probably thinking about. The first? David Alan Grier’s Chocolate News (working title). A fake newsmagazine show. The folks behind it: The series will be executive produced by Grier ("Little Man"), Robert Morton …