The Definitive Guide to Comedy
**** (out of 5) Zach Zucker is wearing many hats at the Fringe. Zucker’s production company, Stamptown, is helping run multiple shows in Edinburgh this month. He’s hosting a late-night variety showcase (Stamptown Comedy Night) over the next three weekends, in addition to performing as one of the world’s worst …
**** (out of 5) Titus, the FOX sitcom based on the life and stand-up comedy of Christopher Titus, went off the air 20 years ago this week. Perhaps not the first Yank you’d figure to be making his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2022, but then perhaps you don’t know much …
Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employee of the Month for July 2022 is Janelle James. Congrats Janelle! NOTE: This is a feature I introduced on my Substack, Piffany, in 2021, and have transferred over to …
****1/2 (out of 5) Sometimes it’s best to just take a recommendation from a Fringe performer and see someone else’s show sight unseen, without looking up any of the program descriptions, interviews or previous reviews. That’s how I found myself in The Box late Thursday night, discovering Jordan Gray for …
*** (out of 5) Will Duggan is angry. Angry that the world might be ending in his lifetime. Angry that his talents might not have much practical use in a post-apocalyptic society. Angry at little things such as his first given name, his misadventures auditioning for adverts, and his not-so …
***** (out of 5) For all of the ink spilled this year over whether TikTok stars (or Instagram comedians, or Twitter characters, or insert your own social media platform here) can translate with a live audience, it’s quite stunning and exhilarating to discover that Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher — two …
**** (out of 5) After an initial experience at the Fringe in 2019, Emmy Blotnick became convinced she should return with her own one-person-show for a full run in 2020. She landed upon a simple enough premise: Superstar Jennifer Lopez had put out 30 uniquely different perfumes and colognes. Whip …
Katherine Blanford is an Atlanta-based comedian who made her TV debut Wednesday on The Tonight Show, and joked about how she used to be a nanny.
The first time I saw Bianca Cristovao performing stand-up, she was the opening act for Bill Burr at The Forum in Inglewood as part of the Netflix is a Joke The Festival this May. But for many of you, your first time seeing her comedy is right now, thanks to …
Originally from New Jersey, Anthony DeVito is a NYC-based comedian who has performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, released a half-hour special on Comedy Central, and a full special, “Brain Noise,” in May 2022 on YouTube. DeVito was a writer and sidekick of Sam Morril on MSG’s People Talking …
