The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Improv has launched a new contest that could fly you to Hollywood for a stand-up spot and a chance to get booked throughout the Improv chain. What's the catch? You have to sign up for an official Improv.com comedian profile if you want to qualify for "The 5 Spot," …
Word from the Pacific Northwest has it that one of Seattle's longtime comedy clubs, Giggles, is trying to be revived by its original owner, but as Jiggles, a strip club. Here is the local TV report on the matter. Roll it while you got it! The Seattle Times points …
Have you wanted to see live comedy, but not wanted to leave your house to find parking, pay for tickets, deal with drink and food minimums and worry about where you're sitting? Hold on. I could've stopped you at leave your house. Because Tig Notaro is filming a TV pilot …
Every summer at Sketchfest NYC, you're likely to see Tracey B. Wilson darting about the sides of the audience with camera in hand as the festival's official photographer. This summer, Wilson traveled around North America as an official photog on Lady Gaga's concert tour. Last week, Wilson and her boyfriend …
As much fun as it may be to see Pee-wee Herman and Colin Quinn in their own Broadway shows right now, just wait a few months. Broadway's spring 2011 season will boast several big-name comedians, with Dane Cook being the most recent to throw his name into the mix, taking …
Whose Line is it Anyway? may be a glimmering memory, and you may not even remember Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, but there is…another. Another new improv comedy "game show" featuring Drew Carey and his collection of comedian friends is coming to TV, this time on GSN, the Game Show …
The second season finale from Adult Swim's Childrens' Hospital is finally online for your viewing pleasure. They said it was "live," but if you paid close attention, you would have seen that even though it wasn't a traditional live TV show, the episode did spend its final nine of 11 …
Today is Nov. 17, 2010, which Jimmy Kimmel has dubbed "National Unfriend Day." And I don't know how what to do. On the one hand, I have firsthand anecdotal life knowledge that there's no way I have 2,372 friends — with 95 friend requests pending! — despite the fact that …
Roadrunner Records announced today it's launching a comedy imprint called Roadrunner Comedy, with its first artist signing: Doug Stanhope. They even let Stanhope make a short video about it. Will there be profanities? What do you think? Roll the clip! Stanhope's first Roadrunner Comedy release is slated for 2011. …
After performing for 1,100 people on Broadway, the star of new musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" did what you might not have expected: Ben Walker headed downtown to perform stand-up for a couple of dozen spectators in the back room of a bar in Alphabet City. Walker (photographed by Mindy …