The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Unlike other performers on America’s Got Talent, stand-up comedian Taylor Williamson didn’t try to pull at anyone’s heartstrings with his background video, nor did he ramp up his routine with bells and whistles to make it anything more than it is. Williamson just wanted to make you laugh. Of course. …
Would you like to contribute your voice, your insight and your experiences in comedy to The Comic’s Comic? You’re hereby invited to do so! Perhaps you have seen recent essays republished here regarding such matters as How to Hire a Comedian for Your Private Function or Party, or What Jealousy …
Colt Cabana is both wrestler and comedian. At the Edinburgh Fringe this August, that makes him both performer and fan. In this fun promotional video for his own show, Cabana spends another rainy day in Edinburgh trying to get tickets to one of the multitude of great comedy shows happening …
Billy Crystal may be a native New Yorker, but his heartstrings forever tug for his hometown of Long Beach, the Long Island town where the 65-year-old grew up. So when Long Beach needed someone to tell everyone else that the city had reopened for beach business this summer — 10 …
“It used to be the comics decided what they said, not the comic-book stores decided what they said!” — Neil Hamburger, adapting his decidedly “anti-comedy” set to the rules of “Set List,” the show that asks comedians to improvise stand-up based on what displays on screens behind them in front …
On Friday night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Fallon showed audiences how NBC crews had constructed an exact replica of his set next door in Studio 6A, where the show will air when it returns from this break until February 2014. That’s when Studio 6B (where Fallon had taped for …
People who asked Jerry Lewis earlier this year if we’d ever get to see his infamous unreleased movie about a washed-up circus clown entertaining Jewish children in a Nazi concentration camp may have known then what we’re only knowing now: Parts of The Day The Clown Cried have been online …
Today is the final day to buy tickets for the first-ever Atlantic Ocean Comedy & Music Festival, happening in September with two stops in the Bahamas on its four days and three nights at sea. It’s not the first comedy cruise and certainly not the last. But it’s your last …
In case you missed it, last night’s episode of Childrens Hospital on Adult Swim featured comedian James Adomian performing several impersonations onstage all at the same time. Here he was, and is, and ever shall be, remembered together as Louis C.K., Rihanna, Madonna, Kate Upton and Freddie Mercury. Roll the …
What Jealousy And Bitterness Can Do For Your Comedy Career By Andy Sanford Jealousy and bitterness exist in just about every pursuit, and especially artistic ones. I can only speak from a comedian’s perspective, but I’ve watched it ruin people. I believe that if you are going to pursue stand-up …
