The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Internet is making all sorts of new ways to connect with our favorite celebrities and comedians, and Yowie is helping make that possible tonight with Rob Huebel. All you have to do is be near your appropriate electronic computer gizmo at 9 p.m. Eastern (change time to your time …
The registration process is now open for comedians to take part in the second annual Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, which is billed as 2010-2011 this time around, because organizers have expanded it nationwide with a series of preliminary audition competitions this fall before the finals take place next spring in …
If you've been to New York Magazine's Vulture section recently, you've noticed they redesigned it to look like its very own section that lessens the direct connection to NYC and plays up the coverage of culture (they've even acquired the vulture.com domain name, which redirects to the magazine's site). More …
You may have seen Steve-O do stunts you wouldn't expect any human being to do willingly, but before Wednesday night, you most likely had never seen the "Jackass" daredevil perform stand-up comedy clean and sober. Or at least sober, as Steve-O's 10-minute set Wednesday night at the Hollywood Improv's ComedyJuice …
For all the bluster, no matter whom you think is blustering (but we all know who), it's interesting to see TV personalities play the game and dance with each other to promote their new books. Such was the case again last night when The Daily Show's Jon Stewart paid another …
Cool kids back in the day could attend any show at The Comedy Store on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip with a black "permanent guess pass" card. Guess what? They're back in limited circulation. Note: Not so good no more at the 1621 Westwood location. It's not as cool as getting …
I don't know why stand-up comedians feel the need to seek and break the world record for longest individual stand-up show. I know why comedian Bob Marley is doing it — or at least the, when, where, and for whom part, as the Maine stand-up who still is not to …
Holding deal < Development deal < Script Paper/Development < Pilots/Presentations < Series Greenlight < Back-end order < Renewal < Syndication < DVD < Book tie-in < Movie spin-off < Documentary film about return to stand-up < Stand-up theater tour < Open invite to any TV talk-show Not pictured: Getting creator …
The San Francisco International Comedy Competition is underway for its 35th year, and Auggie Smith — who finished runner-up in 2001 — dominated again in the first week of preliminaries, outright winning four of the six nights. Week two begins tonight at Sonoma State. For a quick recap, here were …
It's not exactly the rebirth of the stand-up-based-sitcom, but Mike and Molly is a definite step up in the right direction for Billy Gardell. Gardell, who had recurring roles previously as a supporting character in such series as My Name is Earl and Yes, Dear, takes the lead in Mike …