The Definitive Guide to Comedy
This year’s Sundance Film Festival kicks off this weekend with live laughs, courtesy of Seth Herzog’s Sweet show. Well, actually it’s courtesy of Toyota and producer Adam Bauer. But that’s why they call it show business, right? As for the shows, if you’re in the vicinity of Park City, Utah, …
I don’t know that I meant to post so many videos today, but they keep popping up on my computer and why wait until later what you can post now, right? First up, Erik Charles Nielsen. He performs at some of the non-mainstream, you might call them "alternative" rooms in …
Yeppers. The Upright Citizens Brigade, which already has online sites to check out schedules and performers at its New York City, Los Angeles and touring companies, launched its own original content video joke machine today. It’s UCBComedy.com. Check it out! UPDATED: I just checked it out. Lots of fun stuff, …
The newswires sometimes get snookered into running press releases that aren’t so much press releases as much as they are free advertisements. Such as this notice today for the We Kings Too national comedy tour, featuring Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, J. Anthony Brown and Capone. The release reminds you of …
The San Francisco Chronicle headline today already has you groaning before you read the actual story: Yes, guys, they’re funny and female. I went to a comedy show last night that featured four very different female stand-ups: Whitney Cummings, with a comedic sensibility that’s very Los Angeles; Laura Krafft, striking …
Just checking my feeds from some of my other favorite comedy sites (look on the left column here, and you’ll see the most recent postings from Comedy Central Insider, Dead-Frog, The Apiary, The Baston and Shecky Magazine, as they’re updated) and saw a couple of new and funny videos posted …
Ah, Facebook. So great for allowing my comedy friends to keep me in the loop on upcoming shows and inviting me to them. So awkward when several of these shows get booked at the same time on the same night. How many times can you click on "maybe attending" before …
The Calgary Herald, after interviewing George Carlin, decided to add its own two cents — in Canadian, that’d literally be loony — to the debates over who among us is the funniest of all. Although, actually, I just read it again, and they merely reprinted Comedy Central’s 2004 list with …
Short notice tonight, but wanted to let you know of comedians appearing this week on Late Show with David Letterman, the only WGA-approved late-night show of choice. Tonight: Frank Caliendo shows his impersonations and explains his TBS show. Tuesday: Don Rickles plugs the DVD release of his documentary. Friday: Jim …
Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, HBO produced and broadcast a special devoted to young comedians. Not all of them hold up quite so well. One year introduced Steven Wright, but the rest of the hour makes you wonder what happened to America’s sense of humor. Then there was …