Robert Kelly, before taping his CD in Boston
by So yes, Robert “Bobby” Kelly has quite the homecoming this weekend, as he’s taping this weekend’s shows at the Comedy Connection in Boston. Kelly is …
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Cedric the Entertainer, on TV, onstage
Cedric the Entertainer talked with me upon the arrival of his latest HBO special, Taking You Higher, which he helped promote with a club tour. …
Sierra Mist predicts the future?
One of the funnier Super Bowl commercials this year featured comedians Kathy Griffin and Jim Gaffigan as airport security workers, giving Michael Ian Black the …
This just in: Dat Phan, still unfunny
Dat Phan (you remember him, the Vietnamese-American kid who came out from nowhere — well, actually out from under his desk and his job working …
Will Ferrell gets into character
Will Ferrell is a really nice guy. Looked me in the eyes during our introduction a couple of weeks ago at the Ritz, delivered a …
Meet Brian Kiley
Comedy Central had Brian Kiley guest blogging on its site the week before his half-hour stand-up special aired on the cable network that spring. It …
Gilbert Gottfried in his real voice
Some comics really try heard to stay in character. Dan Whitney does all of his interviews as "Larry the Cable Guy" with the Larry accent …
Gary Gulman on watching Tourgasm vs. LCS
Gary Gulman told me that watching Dane Cook’s Tourgasm has been an interesting contrast to his prolonged exposure on NBC’s Last Comic Standing two years …
Bill Burr, ready for a break
Bill Burr recently had his own HBO half-hour special, and I wanted to know what he meant in a MySpace blog posting about moving 20 …
Mike Birbiglia, Sleepwalk With Me
Mike Birbiglia spent most of the past week at the Comedy Studio in Cambridge, Mass., workshopping a new one-man show that he’s calling "Sleepwalk With …