The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Two years ago, Caleb Medley was just another aspiring stand-up comedian and Batman fan taking his wife to a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Medley was caught in the crossfire of a massacre at that July 20, 2012, screening in Aurora, Colo., shot in the head and eye. …
Hugo Medley turns one year old today. That’s hardly big news in baby news globally — certainly the possible future King of England’s birth and naming (George) dominated both mainstream and social media discussions. But for the Medley family, it’s a significant milestone. And a significant reminder of how far …
The way that the comedy community has rallied around one of its own, even a still-aspiring stand-up, has been nothing short of amazing this past week in the wake of the shooting massacre in Aurora, Colo. Comedians and comedy fans already have helped raise more than $360,000 to help pay …
Another week, another somebody’s-got-issues-with-a-joke-at-The-Laugh-Factory. Sigh. Jamie Masada has maintained genius-level status for decades in terms of drumming up publicity for his Laugh Factory comedy club in Hollywood. At the same time, however, his club often finds itself at Ground Zero for fans recording the stand-up acts and/or taking such offense …
This is what aspiring stand-up comedian Caleb Medley looks like on his home page. But this (right) is what Medley looked like today, lying in a coma in University Hospital in Aurora, Colo., with a gunshot wound to his eye and head. Medley, 23, was one of the dozens of …
