The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Norm Macdonald went on Howard Stern on Monday morning with a long dirty joke and plenty of stories, which is convenient since the comedian’s new book, Based on a True Story: A Memoir, went on sale today. Hear here clips of Macdonald reminiscing about “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live …
The late great Mike DeStefano will get some posthumous love thanks to a new stand-up comedy CD, “Puppies & Heroin.” It’ll get a sneak preview debut on Friday thanks to SiriusXM, with a full play starting at 5 p.m. EDT on SiriusXM Raw Dog Comedy channel 99, with interviews about …
Comedy Central Records has packaged all of the recorded jokes from the late, great Mitch Hedberg into an old-school-meets-new-school box set coming out in time for your holiday gift needs. “Mitch Hedberg: The Complete Vinyl Collection” is available now for pre-order on Amazon and will be released Nov. 4th, 2016. …
Years before 30 Rock hit NBC and won all of the Emmys, Dino Stamatopoulos, Stephen Colbert, Scott Adsit, Robert Smigel and Michael Stoyanov wrote a sitcom pilot in the 1990s starring themselves and a then-unknown Tina Fey, set behind the scenes of a show much like Saturday Night Live. This has to …
Larry the Cable Guy made the media rounds today to promote his new Netflix special with Jeff Foxworthy, but even before noon, the comedian made waves when he jokingly told FOX & Friends that he wasn’t voting for Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 because she’d be “the end of …
If you see something, don’t say something to the police. That’s just how this previously unreleased track from a George Carlin performance in 2001 starts! “You don’t help the police,” Carlin says at the start of “Rats & Squealers,” which is now part of the first posthumous Carlin record, coming …
Throwback Thursday to the Future? Tony Hendra, who produced National Lampoon‘s first album back in 1972, is back with Jeff Kreisler and the rest of his team at The Final Edition to produce and release the Lampoon’s first original comedy album since the early 1980s. “Are There Any Triggers Here …
I bought Doug Stanhope’s new memoir, “Digging Up Mother,” because he told me I was in the book. He could have been drunk when he said that. No, wait. He definitely was, because he said so. Either way, imagine my delight and yours this week when Audible released an audiobook …
The open mic holds everything for the new, aspiring comedian. The alpha and the omega, the dream and the nightmare, but the above all else, the primary entry point for stand-up comedy. An open mic often promises no regular audience members; instead, empty chairs up front and a gaggle of …
The estate of the late George Carlin, headed up by his daughter Kelly Carlin, has, as she told friends overnight: “We found some stuff.” Kelly Carlin previously told The Comic’s Comic about sifting through her father’s massive collection of notes and recordings for stuff that his fans might enjoy in …
