The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! TRUTH and ILIZA (#1 Joe Rogan) “I’ve done …
Don Pardo was such a fixture of Saturday Night Live that it’ll even take creating executive producer Lorne Michaels a few years still to catch him in terms of number of appearances/voiceovers. Pardo kept introducing us to comedians in their biggest breaks on SNL, doing the voiceovers for all about …
This is a cute and enriching thing Entertainment Weekly put out earlier this month, collecting character actors normally relegated to “That Guy from That Thing” roles and letting them stand up for their right to star as big-budget blockbuster superheroes. Thanks to Chris Pratt’s star turn in the fun Guardians …
I don’t know if Cameron Esposito ever considered calling her upcoming stand-up album Zero Penis Summer, but I’m sure Same Sex Symbol has a certain symmetry and family-friendly appeal when merchandising and marketing, too. In this performance from Thursday’s Conan, you’ll also hear Esposito relay a delightful tale about two …
Fresh off his win last Thursday on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the season 8 winner, Rod Man made his debut later that night with a short set on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Corporate synergy! You have some of this already this season during his winning campaign on …
This season they let the judges and not the viewing or the studio audience decide. So it was a celebrity expert panel of Roseanne, Russell Peters and Keenen Ivory Wayans who ultimately handpicked Rod Man, a journeyman stand-up, husband and father in Los Angeles originally from Georgia, to win the …
Netflix has premiered and or distributed dozens of new stand-up comedy specials over the past year and a half, including recent performances from Doug Stanhope, Aziz Ansari, Eddie Pepitone, Nick Thune, Matt Braunger, Iliza Shlesinger, Morgan Murphy, Christian Finnegan, Myq Kaplan, Shane Mauss, Jasper Redd, Moshe Kasher, Dan Cummins and …
In case you missed it, here was Wendy Liebman‘s performance on the big stage at Radio City Music Hall during her live quarterfinal round of America’s Got Talent on NBC. It took a few seconds for the big theater stage to catch on to her classic delivery style, but she …
Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! THE STEVEN BRODY STEVENS FESTIVAL OF FRIENDSHIP (#61 Brody …
Cathy Ladman has brought her life-long struggle with anorexia to her stand-up, both in a new one-woman show, “Does This Show Make Me Look Fat?”, as well as her most recent stand-up performance Friday night on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Ladman not only performed a set but …
