The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Budd Friedman didn’t intend to set the standard for stand-up comedy clubs across America (and the world). You might say it only happened thanks to a little Improvisation. Tip your waitstaff! OK, I’ll see myself out, but not before seeing out this show-business icon who changed the game for live …
Gallagher, a joke-teller, showman and prop comic born Leo Anthony Gallagher, Jr., died Nov. 11, 2022, in hospice care in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 76. Gallagher had suffered multiple heart attacks over the years, perhaps most seriously a decade ago — in 2011, he collapsed onstage during a show; …
Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employee of the Month for October 2022 is Sarah Sherman. Congrats Sarah! NOTE: This is a feature I introduced on my Substack, Piffany, in 2021, and have transferred over to …
Pigs. Stud puppets. Love buckets. We are gathered here together to mourn the passing of Judy Tenuta, the love goddess, the petite flower of stand-up comedy, who died Thursday from ovarian cancer. Tenuta was 72. Who else could formally launch Comedy Central in July of 1991 by riding the “New …
Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employee of the Month for September 2022 is Kate Berlant. Congrats Kate! NOTE: This is a feature I introduced on my Substack, Piffany, in 2021, and have transferred over to …
Lots of comings and goings this summer inside 30 Rock’s offices and studios for Saturday Night Live. Long story short: Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson and Kyle Mooney bid adieu at the season 47 finale in May. In August, NBC revealed that Alex Moffat, Melissa Villasenor and Aristotle Athari …
If you enjoy listening to Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! on your NPR radio dials, then perhaps you might also enjoy seeing some of their regular comedians performing stand-up live in a venue near you? That’s the idea behind the new Wait Wait stand-up tour, which launched with a couple of …
Feel like you missed out on the Fringe, even if you attended and/or performed in the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe? For a limited time, the folks at NextUp are here to help. They’re offering access to 34 Fringe shows that were filmed for livestreams last month. The catch? These 2022 Fringe …
Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employee of the Month for August 2022 is Alyssa Limperis. Congrats Alyssa! NOTE: This is a feature I introduced on my Substack, Piffany, in 2021, and have transferred over to …
Caroline’s Comedy Hour, which originally aired on A&E from 1989-1996, is coming back on the air. Carolines on Broadway owner Caroline Hirsch and Sox Entertainment have licensed the 100 old episodes which aired on cable, with plans to film new episodes this November alongside Hirsch’s annual New York Comedy Festival. …
