The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 comedy show last night that featured four very different female stand-ups: Whitney Cummings, with a comedic sensibility that’s very Los Angeles; Laura Krafft, striking …
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 from Comedy Central Insider, Dead-Frog, The Apiary, The Baston and Shecky Magazine, as they’re updated) and saw a couple of new and funny videos posted …
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 when several of these shows get booked at the same time on the same night. How many times can you click on "maybe attending" before …
The Calgary Herald, after interviewing George Carlin, decided to add its own two cents — in Canadian, that’d literally be loony — to the debates over who among us is the funniest of all. Although, actually, I just read it again, and they merely reprinted Comedy Central’s 2004 list with …
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 of choice. Tonight: Frank Caliendo shows his impersonations and explains his TBS show. Tuesday: Don Rickles plugs the DVD release of his documentary. Friday: Jim …
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 well. One year introduced Steven Wright, but the rest of the hour makes you wonder what happened to America’s sense of humor. Then there was …
Ah, life in the city that never sleeps, which for comedians, means a midnight show at the UCB, followed by a wait for the F train back to Brooklyn. Even then, though, the show doesn’t stop. At least according to Joselyn Hughes, who thinks like I do, that hanging out …
On Sunday, Comedy Central gave Katt Williams the broadcast debut for his 2007 stand-up film, American Hustle, an interesting choice for Williams and his crew considering it meant adding all the blurs and beeps of Comedy Central’s censors. It’s essentially a stand-up concert, taped the previous New Year’s Eve in …
Forget the traditional news networks. Everything you needed to know about the New Hampshire primary, delivered straight and true and hilarious from the mouth of Eugene Mirman. And Chuck Norris. Courtesy of 236.com, who if they haven’t already figured this out yet, should be sending Mirman out on the campaign …
The 2008 season of Comedy Central Presents begins tonight with back-to-back half-hours from Stephen Lynch and Dan Cummins. I was at the Cummins taping (which airs at 10:30 p.m. tonight) and will be most interested to see how it edits — he didn’t go over completely well with the audience, …