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How did Shane Mauss, a virtually unknown stand-up comedian from Boston in February, find himself telling jokes on Conan O’Brien in March? This photo of him (center) with me and Dan Pasternack of Super Deluxe only tells part of the story. Read my in-depth story in the Boston Phoenix. After …
The Los Angeles Times covered Richard Jeni’s memorial at the Laugh Factory last weekend. Read its report. I was friends with his girlfriend, TV reporter and meteorologist Amy Murphy (we worked together in Phoenix, and the first thing she said to me when she found out I was a comedian …
I was in New York City, celebrating with comedians and Comedy Central folk after a successful night of tapings for the second season of Live At Gotham, when the audience coordinator delivered the news to us. "Did you hear Richard Jeni died?" My first reply: "You’ve got to be kidding. …
If you happen to visit New York City anytime soon, let me put in a word for a stop at the Maritime Hotel in Chelsea. Or is it the Meatpacking District? The site says it’s in Chelsea, two blocks north of the Meatpacking District. Anyhow. I’ve already gotten away from …
I got the chance to talk to Rob Corddry last weekend at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Nice guy. As funny offstage as he is onstage. Corddry stars in the new FOX sitcom, The Winner, alongside fellow Boston-bred comedian Lenny Clarke (who plays his father). Corddry cited another …
Managed to get two clips out of talking with Stephen Colbert in Aspen, one specifically about his desire for a second TV chance with Congressman Barney Frank for the Boston Globe (my first clip for them: the lead item in today’s Names column) and a more general Behind the Colbert …
Or a recap of other shows and stuff from Friday and Saturday at the 2007 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Stephen ColbertColbert received his Person of the Year award from CNN’s Jeff Greenfield, as they sat in front of a giant poster/mock magazine cover of Colbert as the Person of the …
Yes, comedy fans. Shane Mauss, my condo roommate and comedy buddy for the week, won best stand-up honors tonight at the 2007 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen (HBO). We still have a lot of catching up to do, you readers and I, and we still have a lot of …
Friday in Aspen: The 2007 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Stand Up DHosted by Hyla Matthews, who had a recurring bit pretending to go through all of the relationship steps with a guy in the front row. And now for your comedians. Kyle Kinane. I met this guy the first night …
Some of you are hungry for this sort of information, so let me just tell it to you straight. Shane Mauss (in showcase group B) and Dan Boulger (in showcase group D) both have performed twice in Aspen, and they’re already the talk of the town. Mauss got an early …