The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As Saturday Night Live began its 38th consecutive season of broadcasting on the NBC television network, let’s regain our bearings. Yes, the show still airs live on Saturday nights. Three cast members left over the summer (Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Abby Elliott), three newbies joined the cast — all …
With the fifth annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival underway in Brooklyn this weekend, and more festivals such as the first-ever RIOT Los Angeles coming in the next few days, weeks and months, perhaps it’s best to look forward to Fall 2012 and all of the comedy festivals, confabs and celebrations …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
If you live and/or work in Hollywood, then you know — or at least have heard the joke — that everyone there is in show business, wants to be in show business, or used to be in show business but now just sits on the beach and stares out at …
For many years, David Letterman presided over a late-night TV segment called “Stupid Pet Tricks.” Letterman’s show would fly in pet owners and their pets to have them show off their, well, stupid tricks they had learned. Simple. Stupid. Fun. In 2012, however, television viewers in both the United Kingdom …
Ronna Glickman and Beverly Kahn are the fictional best-selling co-authors of You’ll Do a Little Better Next Time: A Guide to Marriage and Re-marriage for Jewish Singles. In real life, Ronna and Beverly are comedians Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo, friends from the Boston area who have taken their accents west …
Brooks McBeth performed on Monday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and even dropped the talk show host’s name into his stand-up act. McBeth also mentioned what it’s like opening for a certain famous comedian who gets it done, and wondered if said comedian uses his same post-joke admonishment …
Do you know all of the words to your National Anthem? ALL of the words? Could you sing it on cue, let alone on pitch? OK. Now, can you sing the “Comedian’s National Anthem”? Wait. You don’t know that age-old ditty? That’s probably because it’s only a few years old, …
Liz Miele was telling jokes about her dating life at a recent gig at Carolines on Broadway in New York City. So far, so good. Then a guy in the audience interrupted her to hit on her, yelling out and asking her out for drinks. How did you think that …
Has it been five years already? The fifth annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival kicks off Thursday night in Brooklyn’s Gowanus and Park Slope neighborhoods, and it has become a full-fledged tradition in the New York City comedy scene that most of its shows already are sold out. Mirman said yesterday …
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