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So I’m at my college reunion, thinking to myself, is it wrong for me to miss the Hollywood episode of season six of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, can it wait until I get back on Sunday or not, or would it be more wrong, as in wronger, to leave the …
Book Expo America proves how reading is fun-damental once again this weekend in Los Angeles, and funny people Lewis Black and John Hodgman are helping demonstrate that with live appearances. Black performs Saturday night, while Hodgman presides over an author breakfast on Sunday. They’re part of a fresh wave of …
Late Night with Conan O’Brien is rebroadcasting the odd show earlier this year that featured a segment with "Fred Simmons" demonstrating his foot fist way, and Will Ferrell also was on that show. Coincidence? Not really, and even more so not really really really tonight, as The Foot Fist Way …
This story from comedian Gregg Gethard about his adolescent TV appearance on Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego sounds like the kind of thing they’d love to talk about at the nationwide storytelling series, Mortified (next NYC show is June 2 at Comix!), even if Gethard’s own monthly Philadelphia …
I wrote the story in this week’s Time Out NY about the Comic Strip Live‘s upcoming bid to set a Guinness World Record for longest stand-up comedy show with a 50-hour marathon that begins at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 3. Quotes from Dave Attell and Judah Friedlander. Hundreds of comedians …
Tim and Eric just posted a lengthy recap of their live spring Awesome Tour that’s full of photos, insight and sincere thoughts from the road. Example: They didn’t know what to expect in Asheville but loved it! "Possibly the greatest show we’ve ever done." For more NSFW photos, food-tossing, special …
The folks at Just For Laughs announced the lineup for this year’s Toronto fest from July 23-27, which follows the week after Montreal and is geared more for fans than for the industry. A link has been added to my Festivals page. Galas at Massey Hall feature host Martin Short …
If you watched the debut of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, then you also saw a curious contest within the contest called Last Comic Driving, in which 10 stand-up comedians who didn’t get picked for the show somehow (selection process not explained therein) got to compete for $10,000 cash and a …
Gothamist published a new interview with Demetri Martin today that doesn’t get a lot out of the comedian during their limited email correspondence, timed toward Martin’s late-night Tuesday series at Rififi (which continues tonight and June 3, doors at 10 p.m., $5) that has him trying out new jokes along …
Funny or Die now offers celebrity screensavers, and first up is Paul Rudd. Apparently, all you have to do is go to this site and click the appropriate Apple or PC button to download. Just a coincidence perhaps, that TypePad tells me this is post #666?! This video/screensaver is very …