Jones Big Ass Truck Rental: Ad #2

The folks from Chicago-based Big Dog Eat Child bring back Toby Jones to explain it to you again, since  more than 1.2 million of you watched him claim last month that he'd store anything. Anything! So, here you go, ad number two for Jones Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage…

R.I.P. Bob Lazarus

I didn't get the chance to know Bob Lazarus during my brief stint covering the Boston comedy scene, so I shall defer to others in remembering him this week. His battle with leukemia began after I had left Boston for New York City, so I followed the news and fund-raising …

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I Eat Pandas writes a musical?!

It's no secret that anytime Glennis McMurray and Eliza Skinner get together onstage and ask for an audience suggestion, they give birth to wonderfully improvised I Eat Pandas musicals, usually with the accompaniment of pianist Frank Spitznagel. You can see this for yourself fairly regularly in New York City (next …

50 First Jokes (2009)

By almost any indication, the 50 First Jokes show on Saturday night was a rousing success. A packed lounge at Webster Hall. An advance write-up in the New York Times. In just one of the four groups, we heard Jesse Popp reveal some of Mayor Bloomberg's new laws taking hold …

Can Front Page Films “Crash the Super Bowl”?

Front Page Films, aka filmmaker Oren Brimer and comedians Matt McCarthy and Pete Holmes, have cracked the final five for Doritos open call contest for a Super Bowl commercial. Their ad, "New Flavor Pitch," also features Glennis McMurray and Jay Bois. The crew recently made the finals of a similar …