The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I entered the club 24 hours ago, we’ve seen 22 hours of stand-up comedy, and a new audience is beginning to trickle in before they begin charging (host William Stephenson, who has taken only a couple of quick naps, just said cover charges would kick in at 7 p.m.), and …
Just because I won’t be there doesn’t mean you cannot decide to take in the special wonderment that is Brett Gelman’s "1,000 Cats," which he restages tonight at his weekly Gelmania showcase at Rififi in New York City’s East Village. Earlier: My review of Brett Gelman’s "1,000 Cats."
An up-and-down afternoon heads into everyone else’s Happy Hour with the departure of the young women from Baltimore via Israel (they’d been here since 2 a.m.), leaving the young guy with the pillow and headband as the other really longterm fan (here since 12:30 a.m.) still hanging tough in the …
Dave Hill took his fuzzy microphone and his endearing demeanor to the New York Comic Con, and Super Deluxe got around to uploading the video today. So here it is. Enjoy! The strong language on the warning label? It’s for one profanity at the very end.
A new video from Olde English pooped up today on the Internet site you forgot about until it was too late, otherwise known as Super Deluxe. They envision a foody future that does the digesting for ya! Title spoiler alert: It’s the machine that turns food into poop. No, really.
It’s just before 4 p.m. and a cameraman from FOX 5 News has shown up during Joe DeRosa’s set. DeRosa tries to engage the cameraman in conversation, but he’s reluctant to do so. "Why, they’re not going to use the audio from this?" DeRosa says. "Why not?" the cameraman replies. …
Quotable from the 2 p.m. hour: "This doesn’t feel like a comedy show. It feels like something cataclysmic happened in the world…and this is the only place where we’re free from the zombies." — Christian Finnegan
So Funny or Die’s featured "chosen ones" video for today has Andrea Savage and Rachael Harris playing "Lady Cops." The tagline? They’re cops with boobs. Sounds a lot like a safe-for-work version of the Skinemax movies Busty Cops and Busty Cops 2. Looks a lot like it, too, actually. Don’t …
This is no ordinary show, and certainly not an ordinary audience, and yet I’ve seen several comedians approach the stage without keeping that in mind. Comics who deliver their regular 20-minute low-energy set when the crowd isn’t having it, and needing the opposite. Comics who rely on crowd work with …
It’s just after noon on Wednesday, and already, Dan Ahdoot has said three things onstage that capture the mood in the room. 1) "I’ve never performed with orange juice and half a danish in front of me." 2) To a guy dozing off in the crowd, who earlier claimed he’d …