The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you think the people who review everything on Yelp are weird, then what do you make of the people who review online pornography videos? Ari Shaffir delivers his own take on the subject, in this stand-up performance on Tuesday night’s Conan. Roll the clip! Four-and-a-half stars! Much better than …
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 …
Every year, I think I know what to expect heading into Montreal’s grand poobah of comedy festivals — Just For Laughs — only to realize I still have much to learn. Here are some of the things I learned from the 2014 edition of JFL Montreal: Tuesday is the new …
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! SLUMBER PARTY with ALIE and GEORGIA (Episode #37: …
When Comedy Central executives celebrated their slate of webseries on CC:Studios five months ago with a live performance of Ari Shaffir’s “This Is Not Happening” storytelling showcase, it seemed like an odd move. The show at New York City’s Webster Hall was great, with Steve Rannazzisi, Al Madrigal, Kurt Metzger, …
Dave Attell gives back to some of his fellow comedy veterans, and in a very real way has given back to military veterans and their families, through filming his new stand-up showcase series, Comedy Underground with Dave Attell, which debuts at 1 a.m. Sunday on Comedy Central following the premiere of …
Look. I don’t know if you’re going to see the movie Grudge Match starring Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro, or even if you should, but I do know that Joey “Coco” Diaz makes for some comic relief in the film — along with Kevin Hart — and that Diaz has …
Ari Shaffir’s “This Is Not Happening,” a storytelling webseries on Comedy Central via CC:Studios, originated as a live show at the Hollywood Improv’s side “lab” room in which stand-up comedians could share experiences from their lives that didn’t fit neatly within the confines of their stand-up sets or personas. Not …
If you saw InAPPropriate Comedy on the big screen over the weekend, then perhaps you were the person I saw and heard laughing, well, inappropriately in the cinema. The sketch comedy film grossed $156,414 in its opening weekend at the box office at 275 theaters nationwide, for an average of …
