My life as a clown
by I’m the clown on the right, silly! The first and only time I had seen the real circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, I …
Author: Sean L. McCarthy
Editor and publisher since 2007, when he was named New York's Funniest Reporter. Former newspaper reporter at the New York Daily News, Boston Herald and smaller dailies and community papers across America. Loves comedy so much he founded this site.
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Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream
Katie Johnston Chase of the Globe weighs in with a fairly positive review of Jimmy Tingle’s new one-man show, "Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream." We saw …
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Nick Park talks Wallace & Gromit
I met Nick Park, creator of Wallace & Gromit on Monday morning for a brief chat at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston. Here is the story …
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DJ Hazard records a new CD
Don’t expect jokes about the Emmys, hurricanes, politics or anything current when DJ Hazard records his new stand-up comedy CD this weekend at The Comedy …
Jill Soloway has a reading and a show
Arrived late to the reading/performance by author Jill Soloway and her sister, Faith, at the Cambridge YMCA theater space Thursday night, but not too late …
Lewis Black in the wake of Katrina
Lewis Black, flustered? What else is new? But when Black phoned me from Atlanta, merely two days after Hurricane Katrina had flooded and ravaged New …
Harland Williams recording a CD, making a movie
If you saw Harland Williams the other night on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, you might not have recognized him. Williams, an affable, …
Back from the dead
No, really. Sorry for being gone from blogland for so long, but I’ve been dealing with more death than necessary. And that’s not even counting …
Oscars 2005 hosted by Chris Rock
Oh. What was that? Did I miss something? Nope. The telecast was just as I had predicted it in my Sunday story. In a word: …