The Definitive Guide to Comedy
This week’s issue of New York is its best-of issue, and this time around, they actually included a category for comedy. One category. Best Indie-Comedy Night. And the award goes to…oh, you read the subject title already, didn’t you…Tearing the Veil of Maya, the Sunday night showcase hosted by Eugene …
Time again to check in with comedians and comedic actors making the late-night TV rounds… David Letterman (in repeats) — Thursday: Don Rickles Conan O’Brien (in repeats) — Monday: Howie Mandel Jay Leno (in repeats) — Wednesday: Larry the Cable Guy; Friday: Will Ferrell Jimmy Kimmel — Tuesday: Jackie Mason; …
If you haven’t seen Lizz Winstead‘s latest creation, then you’re missing out. Winstead, who co-created The Daily Show and later went on to Air America Radio, now has her sights set on skewering morning TV. Her Monday night show, Shoot the Messenger, recently moved into larger digs at The Green …
The Black Comedy Experiment worked (!). Who knew? Crowds packed The Tank for the final night of shows on Saturday. If there’s any one show that defines the "experiment," it’d have to be Shades of Black, because that stand-up showcase exists to prove that there’s no singular definition for a …
So I finally got to witness Grammy-winning rock star John Mayer perform stand-up, as he dropped in at the Comedy Cellar late Saturday night (well, 1:39 a.m. Sunday) and did an eight-minute set. What’s to say? The guy is a rock star. Which means he already has command of the …
Here is episode four of the satirical soap opera… If you need further catching up first, episode three is after the jump.
George Carlin’s latest HBO special, "It’s Bad For Ya," debuted live Saturday night on HBO. For repeat viewings, it’s On Demand and also airing multiple times, including 12:10 a.m. Monday on HBO2 (consult the HBO master schedule here). If your DVR acted like mine, it cut out early. Ah, the …
SNL’s second new episode of 2008 began much as the first one had, with an extra-long pro-Hillary cold open focusing on the Democratic presidential debate — 10 1/2 minutes! — that included an "editorial response" from the real Sen. Hillary Clinton. If you thought last week’s SNL was pro-Hillary, this …
Two years ago, I got a spread in the Boston Herald to devote to a few of the local comedians that I thought deserved more press. Two of them are back in the spotlight this weekend. Baratunde Thurston has become the Web editor at The Onion, recently appeared on a …
MySpace asked Todd Barry 10 questions. He gave them 10 answers. This is all to help promote his new CD, which you can find out about and buy after reading my review of From Heaven. You can catch his stand-up live this weekend at the Arlington Drafthouse in Arlington, Va., …