The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In case you missed it, season six of TLC's American Chopper found Mikey Teutel pursuing one of his non-biker dreams of being a stand-up comedian. If at first you don't succeed, try asking some actual comics for help and advice. Which Mikey did, and as you can see in these …
Just For Laughs has announced the first slate of galas and headlining shows for this summer's annual comedy festival in Montreal (July 2-25), with tickets going on sale March 31. But before you go ahead and make your travel and lodging reservations, too, let me just tell all of the …
When I saw my friend Mandy Stadtmiller Tweet that she was having fun at the Comedy Cellar on Thursday night, I thought to myself, hey, I'm heading that way. Except I ended up staying in instead. Bad move on my part. Because I missed seeing this strange-but-true incident late in …
Thanks to Steve Hofstetter, one of the comedians who helped put together the inaugural Laughing Skull Comedy Festival in Atlanta earlier this month, G4's Attack of the Show aired scenes from the festival's stand-up competition. Margaret Cho was there. I saw fest winner Josh Gondelman there, too, as well as …
It's really quite something to see the success of all three primary members of Front Page Films — filmmaker Oren Brimer recently started working as a segment producer on The Daily Show, Pete Holmes debuted his first half-hour Comedy Central Presents special last month, and Matt McCarthy has a stand-up …
Today's snapshot comes to us via Mike Birbiglia via Lynn Shawcroft. Earlier this week, Jeopardy used a classic joke from the late Mitch Hedberg for an answer. You know the question? Of course you do.
Sub Pop announced yesterday it was releasing the first new stand-up comedy special from David Cross in seven years, with the upcoming "Bigger and Blackerer" CD and DVD coming out on May 25. As Sub Pop explained (see the track listing here): The new David Cross album and DVD Bigger and Blackerer …
The second "Women in Comedy Festival" kicked off last night in the Boston area, with shows continuing through the weekend at Improv Boston in Cambridge and Mottley's Comedy Club in Boston. It could easily be another gimmicky thing. But to the credit of festival co-director Maria Ciampa and her fellow …
Comedian Christian Finnegan shared this snapshot from a publicity moment for his upcoming TBS sitcom adaptation of the movie, Are We There Yet? His caption: "Here's a shot from my recent family reunion." Haha. Funny. We get it, in a one of these things is not like the others kind …
HBO announced late yesterday that the pay-cable network had ordered a second season of The Ricky Gervais Show, which animates years-old podcasts that Gervais recorded with comedy partner Stephen Merchant and radio foil Karl Pilkington. The re-animated workings in this first season — which debuted in February — haven't exactly …