The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Within the past 15 minutes, seemingly half of the capacity crowd has made their moves for the exits, following Jeffrey Ross toward the door at the end of his 50-minute set. I happen to be in the lobby when this happens, having filmed a short improvised riff with Rory Albanese …
Mike Birbiglia goes onstage and immediately fills the audience in on my presence liveblogging the event. The lights go up. A couple of hundred heads swivel my way. "So what’s been the highlight so far?" Birbiglia asks me. Pause. "Well, I guess this would have to be the highlight," I …
Gary Gulman opened with a quick quip about wanting "to set the record for beards of bees" before setting down his recording device on the stool onstage. "But first, I’m going to record this, so you can see where you can do better…because you might mail it in," Gulman said, …
Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, the late-night half-hour chat show for comedians that features the least actual chat of any TV show I know, will get two more seasons — or 260 episodes — to blatantly promote stand-up comedians. Which is ultimately still a good thing. Right? The series already …
Just because I won’t be there doesn’t mean you cannot decide to take in the special wonderment that is Brett Gelman’s "1,000 Cats," which he restages tonight at his weekly Gelmania showcase at Rififi in New York City’s East Village. Earlier: My review of Brett Gelman’s "1,000 Cats."
Dave Hill took his fuzzy microphone and his endearing demeanor to the New York Comic Con, and Super Deluxe got around to uploading the video today. So here it is. Enjoy! The strong language on the warning label? It’s for one profanity at the very end.
It’s just before 4 p.m. and a cameraman from FOX 5 News has shown up during Joe DeRosa’s set. DeRosa tries to engage the cameraman in conversation, but he’s reluctant to do so. "Why, they’re not going to use the audio from this?" DeRosa says. "Why not?" the cameraman replies. …
Quotable from the 2 p.m. hour: "This doesn’t feel like a comedy show. It feels like something cataclysmic happened in the world…and this is the only place where we’re free from the zombies." — Christian Finnegan
So Funny or Die’s featured "chosen ones" video for today has Andrea Savage and Rachael Harris playing "Lady Cops." The tagline? They’re cops with boobs. Sounds a lot like a safe-for-work version of the Skinemax movies Busty Cops and Busty Cops 2. Looks a lot like it, too, actually. Don’t …
It’s just after noon on Wednesday, and already, Dan Ahdoot has said three things onstage that capture the mood in the room. 1) "I’ve never performed with orange juice and half a danish in front of me." 2) To a guy dozing off in the crowd, who earlier claimed he’d …