Episode #100: Doug Stanhope
by Welcome to our 100th episode together of The Comic’s Comic Presents Last Things First. This isn’t like the other episodes, and not just because it’s …
Category: Books
Book Excerpt: “Meet The Regulars” with Sasheer Zamata and Michelle Wolf, by Joshua D. Fischer
Joshua D. Fischer began interviewing famous fun and funny folks for the blog, Bedford + Bowery. After talking to a couple dozen such people, Fischer decided …
Meet Me In New York: Dan Wilbur
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling …
Kevin Hart to pen memoir, “From the Hart
If Kevin Hart can earn $2 million just to type 140 characters into Twitter, then what could he pull in for writing 140 pages about …
Episode #73: Bonnie McFarlane
Bonnie McFarlane is a comedian and writer who grew up on a farm in northern Canada. She has appeared on two seasons of Last Comic Standing, The …
The one famous ex-boyfriend who’s not in Bonnie McFarlane’s memoir
Bonnie McFarlane celebrated the release of her first book, You’re Better Than Me: A Memoir, on Tuesday night at the Strand Book Store in New …
Meet Me In New York: Doogie Horner
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling …
Alan Zweibel in conversation with Martin Short at the 92Y
In case you missed it, Alan Zweibel sat down with Martin Short for the better part of an hour last month at the 92Y in …
Taste & Sensibility, or How Soon is Too Late? from Joe Randazzo’s “The Definitive Guide to an Unpredictable Career in Comedy” (book excerpt)
You’ve seen so many comedians making it big in the 2010s via stand-up comedy, via Twitter, via YouTube, heck even via Vines and Instagrams. You’ve seen …
Writing what they know: The art of the comedy book, and the booming collection of comedian memoirs
Why are there so many more books by comedians about their lives as comedians than seemingly ever before? Perhaps it’s another sign of boom times. …