Anna Akana – The Comic's Comic

Anna Akana: “It Gets Darker” at Edinburgh Fringe 2024

August 9, 2024August 9, 2024

⭐⭐⭐½ Actress Anna Akana has more than 2.8 million YouTube subscribers (and an additional 1.5 million combined followers on TikTok and Instagram), and her first big wave of fans found her in 2013 when she posted a viral video titled, “please don’t kill yourself.” That’s when Akana first told the …

Watch Laughing Matters: The Funny Business of Being Sad

October 11, 2019October 11, 2019

Rainn Wilson’s SoulPancake just put out a moving half-hour documentary via Funny or Die that’s worth watching whether you’re a comedian, know a comedian, or are a living human being in 2019. Laughing Matters opens with a reminder of how we felt in 2014 when we learned that Robin Williams …