Kurt Metzger hopes to draw a broader audience with “White Precious”
by Kurt Metzger may be the nicest and most reasonable person onstage and off, who simultaneously is joking about things and using language to which many …
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Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen is recording a live album with Kill Rock Stars
After nine years of shows on two coasts, Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal’s “Hot Tub” variety show will get the double-album treatment in both vinyl …
Ian Edwards on Conan, and Team Coco Records
Black dudes in hoodies: A scary thing, but how scary, really? That’s the question Ian Edwards poses and answers in his stand-up set on Tuesday …
Comedy wins none of the 2014 Billboard Music Awards but all of the focus of this week’s magazine issue
You probably heard about, if you didn’t also already see, the hologram of the late Michael Jackson performing at Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, televised …
Watch Marc Maron’s “Thinky Pain” vinyl record while listening to it?!
This is different. Comedy Central has released a YouTube video of Marc Maron’s latest stand-up record, “Thinky Pain,” as a record. You can hear Maron …
Conan O’Brien and Team Coco launching a record label
Conan O’Brien recorded a couple of music sessions on vinyl in 2010 for Third Man Records when he was making the transition from NBC to …
Jim Gaffigan is a comedian “Obsessed” (CD/DVD)
Jim Gaffigan is a comedian obsessed. On a superficial level, Gaffigan continues to be obsessed with food. It’s definitely food. It always has been. From …
Gary Gulman on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Gary Gulman has a way of hitting my comedy sweet spot every time, what with his pop-cultural references and combining the high, low and middlebrows …
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Tracy Morgan makes his case for “Bona Fide” comedy star status
If he wasn’t already a bona fide star upon leaving Saturday Night Live, Tracy Morgan certainly was when he returned to the 30 Rock fold …
Patton Oswalt, “Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time” (CD/DVD)
When Patton Oswalt walked onstage last summer at the Spreckels Theater during San Diego Comic-Con, an adoring crowd receives him with a standing ovation as the …