The Definitive Guide to Comedy
From our friends at Open Mic Magazine, Tampa comedians Becca Childs and CJ Hernandez, comes this week’s fun mockery of ourselves. Above is “Every Comedy Poster,” complete with all of the randomness anyone who has been in the comedy game for more than a minute notices — while every new …
Do you think you can handle one more comedy festival before the end of the summer? KAABOO Del Mar says: Humor Me. At its third annual live music and entertainment bash, KAABOO Del Mar has an all-star stand-up comedy lineup planned for an indoor, all-conditioned seated comedy club called HUMOR …
Tim Heidecker, last heard mocking President Trump with a new song called “Mar-A-Lago,” is reuniting with his old comedy partner Eric Wareheim for a “10 Year Awesome Anniversary Tour” to celebrate the decade since they began starring in Adult Swim’s Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! “It’s been 10 years. …
Tina Fey appears on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter‘s 2016 Women in Entertainment Power 100 issue, and none other than David Letterman has the interview with her. Neither Fey nor Letterman is onscreen any longer on a nightly nor weekly basis to talk and joke us through the world’s often-crazy …
This column originally appeared on Stu Melton’s site, A Comedian’s Notebook, and is republished here with the author’s permission. Top: Illustration by Anthony So “What Your Microphone Grip Says About You” By Stu Melton Every stand up comedian has her or his or her or his own unique microphone grip; …
We all face moral and ethical dilemmas if we wish to live truly helpful and selfless lives as part of the universe. As a journalist, sometimes people look to me to help solve their dilemmas for them. Many moons ago, when I worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona, I …
SXSW’s Comedy lineup once again will stretch across all three of the “formal” portions of Austin’s massive festival celebrating Interactive, Film, and Music, with shows, live podcasts, film screenings and more from March 11-20, 2016. Plus an encore for SXSW’s live stand-up comedy showcase specials for Showtime. Last year, W. …
We’re barely into 2016, and already three major nationwide comedy tours have asked you to pencil them into your plans this year. David Cross: “Making America Great Again!” Cross is heading out on the road for his first stand-up tour in six years, starting Jan. 26, 2016, in San Diego, …
The things you clicked on more than anything else I posted in 2015. Without further ado… 1. Yearbook photos for Louis CK and Matt LeBlanc (as depicted in junior high and high school in Newton, Mass., where they were classmates!), which make any day a great TBT and a chance …
The only thing more striking about Sara Schaefer’s recent Twitter photo of the differences between men and women in stand-up comedy today (circa 2015)? Reading her @replies and the outlandishly sexist men and mansplainers trying to set her supposedly straight. Which, of course, only reinforces her point. If you cannot …
