The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Judd Apatow has organized several fund-raisers for 826LA over the years. Apatow’s latest charitable contribution may also prove to be its longest-lasting and widest-reaching: His life’s compilation of one-on-one interviews with comedy legends will become a book, “Sick in the Head,” for Random House. Apatow told The Comic’s Comic that …
Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! GIRL ON GUY with AISHA TYLER (#140: Carol …
Carl Reiner appeared as a guest Tuesday night on Arsenio, and when he saw Arsenio Hall welcome a spoken-word act to the program, Reiner wanted to read a little something of his own. This is “Ode To the Buttocks Bountiful,” a 70-year-old poem the young Reiner wrote and still remembers. …
The comedian George Wallace has lived a literal rags-to-riches story. Wallace, 61, had sold rags before moving to New York City and selling ads before one of his clients opened The Comic Strip and invited him to try his hand at stand-up comedy. That led to a career change, a …
Are these the funniest cities in America? What does that question even mean? Ay, there’s the rub. The fellas behind the new book, The Humor Code, tried assigning data to the question, though, nevertheless, irregardless of how many qualifiers I put in this sentence. They still went ahead and tried …
Chelsea Handler kicked off her “Uganda Be Kidding Me” stand-up comedy and book tours simultaneously Tuesday with a full day of promotional rounds in New York City, starting with ABC’s Good Morning America, taping an interview on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and following that at night with …
“I was able to watch this movie become a cult classic. And then now, I just cross out cult. Because it’s a classic.” Stephen Tobolowsky, talking to The Comic’s Comic last February before introducing a 20th anniversary screening of Groundhog Day at the 92YTribeca in New York City. Today is …
Todd Barry was first, in March 2007. Almost seven years and more than 230 unique, intimate portraits later, Seth Olenick‘s work documenting comedians and comedic actors and actresses is preserved in bound manuscript with the publication of his weighty tome of a photography book, “Funny Business.” If you’re in New …
Scott Bateman knows what it’s like to have multiple identities and realities. Sure, he has a couple thousand followers of his personal Twitter feed @Disalmanacarian, but that’s nothing compared to the almost 70,000 following him @Disalmanac, the feed that has birthed fun facts and witty charts and graphs — which …
Shout out to George Wallace for his stand-up performance on Wednesday night’s episode of The Arsenio Hall Show! Wallace — introduced by Arsenio as “Mr. Vegas” — kept it real and kept it topical by referencing the acts before him on the show, as well as audience members. Wallace also …
