The Definitive Guide to Comedy
There are morning people, there are night people, and then there’s Dave Attell – best known for his late-night escapades on Comedy Central’s Insomniac yet doomed to a vicious cycle of morning radio interviews to promote his weekend club gigs.How can he pull it off?"I guess there’s a lot of …
Nothing can quite prepare you for an actual conversation with Larry David. Even having the HBO media rep tell me that Larry was about to call me to talk for my story, even watching his TV shows. Afterward, the HBO rep called me back to apologize for how surreal that …
Anyone who really wants to understand the psyche of the stand-up comedian, the process of constructing a stand-up set and the business behind the show business — well, you should see the 2002 documentary Comedian. That movie is full of insight. The Aristocrats, on the other hand, exists more as …
Sinbad is calling from the mountains outside of Pasadena, Calif., on his way to a voice lesson.Is the 48-year-old comedian and actor going Broadway on us? Well, sort of. He performs Thursday at The Opera House as part of the Broadway Across America series.“I’m the next hot r & b …
Early returns are mostly favorable on the debut last night of the latest, greatest Comedy Central attempt at a Daily Show follow-up, The Colbert Report. The premiere was absurd. But they were going for absurd, so they hit that. The first guest, an inspired choice in Stone Phillips, mostly because …
David and Chris Walsh, pride and joy of Charlestown, Mass. David and Chris Walsh in some ways resemble the Smothers Brothers as they tell their tales.But the Walsh boys don’t play musical instruments or fling yo-yos, they often dress in T-shirts and jeans, and they’re completely over-the-top ridiculous.Which is why …
You said it, goldenfiddle. After watching all of this Saturday’s Saturday Night Live and half of the season opener, I’m still waiting for the funny. Or more importantly, for some relevance. The first show at least featured Kanye West, and had the good sense to bring Mike Myers back to …
I’m the clown on the right, silly! The first and only time I had seen the real circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, I was but a wee little lad. My grandparents from Lynn brought me to Boston Garden, and I was amazed by an even littler lad named …
Katie Johnston Chase of the Globe weighs in with a fairly positive review of Jimmy Tingle’s new one-man show, "Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream." We saw the same show. She got more space for her review. I think mine manages to get more perspective on Tingle for those who do or …
I met Nick Park, creator of Wallace & Gromit on Monday morning for a brief chat at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston. Here is the story I wrote that appears today in the Boston Herald… What do Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Gumby have in common with King Kong?They all made …