The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Bastion tells me, and therefore you, as well, that there’s plenty of talented comedians coming home to roost at the 11th annual Chicago Improv Festival, which begins tonight and runs through June 8. Chicago’s grand improvisational comedy tradition attracts a lineup that includes Paul Scheer and Jack McBrayer kicking …
So I’m at my college reunion, thinking to myself, is it wrong for me to miss the Hollywood episode of season six of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, can it wait until I get back on Sunday or not, or would it be more wrong, as in wronger, to leave the …
Book Expo America proves how reading is fun-damental once again this weekend in Los Angeles, and funny people Lewis Black and John Hodgman are helping demonstrate that with live appearances. Black performs Saturday night, while Hodgman presides over an author breakfast on Sunday. They’re part of a fresh wave of …
Late Night with Conan O’Brien is rebroadcasting the odd show earlier this year that featured a segment with "Fred Simmons" demonstrating his foot fist way, and Will Ferrell also was on that show. Coincidence? Not really, and even more so not really really really tonight, as The Foot Fist Way …
This story from comedian Gregg Gethard about his adolescent TV appearance on Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego sounds like the kind of thing they’d love to talk about at the nationwide storytelling series, Mortified (next NYC show is June 2 at Comix!), even if Gethard’s own monthly Philadelphia …
I wrote the story in this week’s Time Out NY about the Comic Strip Live‘s upcoming bid to set a Guinness World Record for longest stand-up comedy show with a 50-hour marathon that begins at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 3. Quotes from Dave Attell and Judah Friedlander. Hundreds of comedians …
Turns out Super Deluxe does still introduce new videos every now and then, if you know where to look (or even if you just stumble upon it), and today introduced the rap on O’Doul’s by NYC sketch group Olde English, which shows they’ve at least continued to embrace the voice …
My friends in comedy at Shecky Magazine and Comedy Juice both reporting today that comedian Mitch Mullany has died at 39. Shecky put a "rumor" headline on their post today after Mullany’s management company declined comment, but comedian Butch Bradley spread the sad news via MySpace this morning and Comedy …
Tim and Eric just posted a lengthy recap of their live spring Awesome Tour that’s full of photos, insight and sincere thoughts from the road. Example: They didn’t know what to expect in Asheville but loved it! "Possibly the greatest show we’ve ever done." For more NSFW photos, food-tossing, special …
Saturday Night Live may have wrapped up its season almost two weeks ago, but cast member Fred Armisen still has some backstage dish to share from the season finale on his NBC blog. He offers that having Steve Carell host meant seeing more than a few of Carell’s co-workers from …