The Definitive Guide to Comedy
On the Left Coast, the second week of the 2008 San Francisco Comedy Competition’s preliminaries begins tonight. Follow along here, and here. And here are your comedians for the coming week in and around Northern California: Week Two competitors: Jen Adams, New York; Shannon Gettins, Los Angeles; Andy Haynes, New …
Someone asked me if going first in a contest meant certain elimination. That entirely depends upon a few factors, such as: How proficient your host is in warming up the audience and getting them to laugh, what time your show starts (the later, the better, it’d seem), and how quickly …
Following up on my recap of this season’s Saturday Night Live debut, here is when and where new cast member Bobby Moynihan gets to carry his first sketch as a waiter named Mark Payne who cannot stop thinking about the pepper smell in the restaurant, much to the chagrin of …
Rolling Stone just published online a letter the magazine received from a comedian who appears in the current comedy issue, "What’s So Funny?" And we quote: The issue made me sick. The majority of the people in it are, for the most part, the worst sort of comedy whores, and …
Not all contest preliminary groups in the Boston Comedy Festival are created alike. That's the first thing that has to be said for prelims 3-4 last night. In the late show, you could make a case for at least eight of the 12 comedians to make it through to the …
Did you like that earlier flow chart attempting to explain all of comedy? Then perhaps you will like Doogie’s latest venture, in which he shows you how to decipher the formula of converting tragedy into comedy over time. If only he’d have someone check for typos. That’s the real tragedy …
With festivals on the brain, time to check in and see what TBS has in store for the 2008 version of The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, going it alone this November since HBO seemingly got out of the comedy confab business (still listed down low on the site as …
Eugene Mirman has announced the planned lineups for his crazy-yet-true-because-it-is-Eugene-after-all comedy festival named for him, taking place Sept. 25-28 in Brooklyn. Mirman pretty much has it covered — most of his usual and unusual suspects will appear over those four days and nights at two venues, Union Hall (where Mirman …
I’m back in Boston this week for the 2008 Boston Comedy Festival, which began last night and runs through Saturday, culminating in awards honoring The Smothers Brothers for 50 years together in comedy, local Steve Sweeney for his contribution to Boston comedy, and of course, the ninth annual winner of …
And now, the five comedians advancing from the first week of preliminary competition in and around San Francisco this year are…1) Tyler Boeh, 2) Brent Weinbach, 3) Murv Seymour, 4) Jose Sarduy, 5) Dax Jordan Week Two of the San Francisco Comedy Competition begins Wednesday.