The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What kind of comedy festival offers free butterscotch pudding to its audience members? And if you're lucky enough to have a wristband like this, you also got to munch on turkey, potato salad and other savories. "VIPs" also could dine on caviar inside a cardboard room?! Then again, if you're …
If I were to tell you that an upcoming episode of Law & Order (any edition) would feature a comedian in a bit part, then you would say, sure, why not. It has happened before plenty of times. In fact, enough times that the second annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival …
I don't normally write about legal and personal issues for comedians, because they often have nothing to do with actual comedy, and sometimes turn out to be frivolous, and common people will forget the frivolous part but remember the initial allegations. That said, I did some idle searching of Google …
There's still a couple of days left to enter IFC's Sketch Comedy Challenge. The deadline is Sept. 20. The winner not only gets to see their sketch aired on IFC, but also gets to be walk the red carpet with Monty Python at the debut of their new documentary, Almost …
On behalf of my friends at Comedy.com, I attended the red carpet event for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia last night at NYC's Beacon Theatre. The carpet was yellow, because it's always sunny. The cast is on a mini-tour to promote tonight's debut of their fifth season, by performing a …
This is really happening, people. Comedy Central announced today that it had agreed to restart the American Comedy Awards, which had run from the 1980s to 2001 on the TV and celebrated comedy and comedians with their own trophies. Hooray! Sort of. Well. Some comedians are still touring with an …
The only comedy festival that's aware enough of itself to pretend to be fake, and yet still assemble a funny cast of comedians for multiple nights of themed shows, returns for a second year. Yes, I'm talking about the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, happening Thursday through Sunday (Sept. 17-20) at …
Here's a cute story. An elderly woman from Jacksonville, Fla., becomes a widow (not the cute part) and decides to pursue her dream of telling jokes as a stand-up comedian. Fast-forward 10 years, and now, 75-year-old Grandma Lee is one of ten finalists in the running to win $1 million …
Comedian Tig Notaro and Brightest Young Things announced a brand-new comedy festival coming to Washington, D.C., in October, and their Bentzen Ball sold more than 800 tickets since going on sale at noon today. We can see why. Just check out this list of performers that Notaro has assembled to …
Incremental progress, they say, is always a good thing. And so it was on Tuesday night that the second episode of The Jay Leno Show offered some actual comedy for the live studio audience (and those watching on their TVs), courtesy of one of Leno's many comedy correspondents. Sort of. …