Live comedy at Sundance? Sweet!
by This year’s Sundance Film Festival kicks off this weekend with live laughs, courtesy of Seth Herzog’s Sweet show. Well, actually it’s courtesy of Toyota and …
Two more videos: Erik; striking writers
I don’t know that I meant to post so many videos today, but they keep popping up on my computer and why wait until later …
UCB’s new comedy site, UCBComedy.com
Yeppers. The Upright Citizens Brigade, which already has online sites to check out schedules and performers at its New York City, Los Angeles and touring …
Comedy tour for sale
The newswires sometimes get snookered into running press releases that aren’t so much press releases as much as they are free advertisements. Such as this …
Women in comedy? Media asks
The San Francisco Chronicle headline today already has you groaning before you read the actual story: Yes, guys, they’re funny and female. I went to …
A new video roundup
Just checking my feeds from some of my other favorite comedy sites (look on the left column here, and you’ll see the most recent postings …
Too many Tuesday night options
Ah, Facebook. So great for allowing my comedy friends to keep me in the loop on upcoming shows and inviting me to them. So awkward …
Calgary Herald’s Top 10 Stand-Ups
The Calgary Herald, after interviewing George Carlin, decided to add its own two cents — in Canadian, that’d literally be loony — to the debates …
WGA Strike Watch: Comedians on Letterman
Short notice tonight, but wanted to let you know of comedians appearing this week on Late Show with David Letterman, the only WGA-approved late-night show …
Time capsule: HBO’s 15th Annual Young Comedians
Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, HBO produced and broadcast a special devoted to young comedians. Not all of them hold up quite so …