The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For fun, I clicked on Super Deluxe to see if they’re still around. Guess what? They are! And they just today finally got around to uploading Dave Hill’s dance video, co-starring David Rakoff and featuring Martha Plimpton. Love the Band-Aid!
The People’s Republic of Komedy brought an independent, DIY attitude to the Seattle comedy scene — before their arrival a few years ago, comedians in Washington state had to deal with either the mainstream clubs or one-nighters in a rotating series of bars around the Seattle area that would give …
Would you think an article describing Zach Galifianakis as "ramshackle" would be quite so positive? Ain’t journalism grand? Speaking of grand journalism and comedy, the trades love their lingo, and Variety’s recent story on the stand-up comedy scene lumps Galifianakis in with a group of "second-tier yuksters," and says comedy …
After performing three sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall (that’s 18,000 comedy fans), Eddie Izzard had a hotel rooftop party to celebrate with both his U.K. and U.S. representatives Sunday night and into Monday morning (including a birthday cake for his U.K. manager, Chiggy!). Izzard flew back to London …
Which Today Show personality is trying her hands at stand-up comedy? Al Roker? Good guess, but no. Matt Lauer? Despite his girlish hands, it won’t be him. Didn’t you read the headline on this post? It’s Ann Curry. Here is photographic evidence of Curry with Gilbert Gottfried, and no, they’re …
In the coming year, you’ll see three of Seth MacFarlane’s animated projects on the TV (Family Guy, American Dad, Cleveland!) and an additional series online — "Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy." But not just anywhere online. It’ll be on Google’s AdSense! Really. Which means it’ll be on my site? …
Is it too early in the morning to ponder hot dogs? How about mini hot dogs, the ever-popular pigs in blankets? Well, it’s not too early in the month, because July means we’re only days away from the Fourth of July and the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot …
Mike Vecchione has taught in the schools and survived to tell about it, in jokes and such. He was on Live at Gotham over the weekend, and something tells me you’ll be seeing more of him in other places soon enough…he gets an applause break on his opening routine on …
The Cleveland area has brought us Ryan Dalton, comedian, and this was his Live at Gotham debut from over the weekend. Would you like to watch it? Here you go. Dalton has an important message for you about text messages:
Nate Bargatze (from Hickory, but not the same Hickory as Jon Reep: fun fact! did you just say there is more than one Hickory? funner facter!) made his Live at Gotham debut last weekend, and here are the clips to prove it! We can even start with a clip that …