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Tonight many of Boston’s old-school comedy legends will reunite online to perform and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Ding Ho, and in doing so, honor the late Barry Crimmins and raise money for his widow, Helen. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Eastern. Crimmins started live comedy shows at …
He wasn’t from Boston, but Barry Crimmins accomplished more in the 1970s and 1980s to make the metropolitan area an artistically and financially profitable hub for comedy than any comedian, booker or club owner. He wasn’t Nicaraugan, but Crimmins traveled there to perform for the Sandinastas and rail against then-President …
It only seems like there are a million other shows happening in Edinburgh each August. In fact, this month, the Ed Fringe is only hosting 3,781 different shows. Of those, only about show up in the filtered results for comedy from the United States. So if you’re looking for an …
A week ago, Louis CK released “Whatever Threatens You,” the first-ever stand-up comedy special by Barry Crimmins, some 35 years after Crimmins first arrived in Boston and helped cultivate the greatness that that city’s comedy scene has birthed. How’s life been for Barry Crimmins this past week? “Uh, eventful.” Crimmins …
Barry Crimmins calls his new stand-up special, released in video and audio versions Sunday night by Louis C.K. (who directed and produced it), the “Best spesh by a progressive, rabble-rousing, bigot-baiting,trauma-surviving comic this week!!” Here’s what CK had to say about releasing Barry Crimmins: Whatever Threatens You (it’s his third release …
So many stand-up specials dot the digital landscape, you could have spent your entire Labor Day weekend marathoning them and not completed the catalogue on any one channel, let alone completing a tour through what Amazon Prime, Comedy Central, HBO, Hulu, Netflix and Showtime have to offer. Besides, watch enough …
Bobcat Goldthwait wouldn’t have ever been “Bobcat” if he hadn’t met Barry Crimmins first, some three decades ago when Goldthwait was a teenager in upstate New York. Young Bob followed “old” Barry to Boston in the early 1980s, where Crimmins took the eccentric, unique comedic voices of Boston and created …
The year in movies may end with Oscar, but it always begins with Sundance. The 2015 Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its official selections, and among them are new documentaries on stand-up comedians Tig Notaro and Barry Crimmins, the history of The National Lampoon magazine and brand, plus a look …
