iO Chicago alums to write, direct “Del & Charna” movie
by Red Crown Productions LLC announced it’s developing a biopic about Chicago improvising legends Del Close and Charna Halpern, Del & Charna. Kay Cannon will direct …
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Shows you’ll wish you’d seen at the 2019 New York Comedy Festival
It’s easy to just rattle off the headliners and say go to them. In fact, several of the biggest names performing this week at the …
Episode #279: Celeste Barber
Celeste Barber had appeared on Australian television as a regular on the hospital soap opera All Saints in the late 2000s, but that wasn’t translating …
Chris Porter on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live made use of the late-night TV host’s Las Vegas comedy club again this week, broadcasting this stand-up performance from Chris Porter. Porter …
Pete Lee on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Pete Lee made his fifth appearance on The Tonight Show, and revealed he’s still not the most toxic masculine man. Roll the clip.
R.I.P. John Witherspoon (1942-2019)
Stand-up comedian and actor John Witherspoon, who started working comedy clubs in the 1970s and was still working the clubs into his 70s, and planned …
Alex Edelman on Conan
Alex Edelman got to meet the late, great Neil Armstrong in real life once, but it wasn’t so great. Armstrong is no Koko the Gorilla, …
Episode #278: Matt Besser
Matt Besser is known as one of the co-founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade, which began as a sketch comedy group in Chicago, moved to …
Kelly Bachman addresses Harvey Weinstein, the elephant in the room at Actor’s Hour
You’re invited to perform at a monthly live show in the part of the East Village formerly known as Alphabet City, and you’re excited not …
Announcing TLB Records
The Laugh Button has corralled 800 Pound Gorilla Records and Robert Kelly’s RiotCast Podcast Network into launching a new, joint record label called TLB Records. …