The Definitive Guide to Comedy
After two months off the satellite airwaves, comedians Dan Soder and Big Jay Oakerson are getting back in the SiriusXM studios on Monday. Their comedy talk show, The Bonfire, will air Mondays-Fridays from 5 to 7 p.m. Eastern on SiriusXM’s Faction Talk, Ch. 103. Faction Talk already is home to …
As I wrote in my review for Decider: The word “degenerates” implies immorality. Oakerson, Brad Williams, Yamaneika Saunders, Liza Treyger, Joey Diaz and Christina P. definitely live by morals. The Netflix focus group working committee on series naming must have struggled (or didn’t struggle enough) in this case. Calling them …
And now there are six. When Netflix announced it would tape six half-hour stand-up specials in June in Las Vegas called The Degenerates, they’d only listed five names. Now Brad Williams has joined the lineup, which previously included Big Jay Oakerson, Liza Treyger, Christina P, Yamaneika Saunders and Joey “Coco” …
Netflix has ordered up another round of half-hour stand-up comedy specials, this time with a twist. Instead of calling them The Standups, Netflix is calling these comedians The Degenerates. What does that mean, exactly? Here’s the official description: The country’s funniest, delinquent comedians are teaming up for this RAW and …
OK. So I’ve only sat down to podcast with 28 of the comedians performing this week so far as part of the 2017 Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. But that’s a start! Each of these fine, funny folks regales me (and now you) with inspirational stories about how they …
You can hear even more of Big Jay Oakerson and Dan Soder riffing now than you thought possible before, as their SiriusXM talk show, The Bonfire, has expanded from two to four nights a week, starting yesterday. The daily show will now stream Monday through Thursday from 6 to 8 …
New York City comedians likely knew or heard about last year’s inaugural Skankfest, which brought in Doug Stanhope, Todd Glass, the Impractical Jokers and more alongside organizers Legion of Skanks (Luis J. Gomez, Dave Smith and Big Jay Oakerson) at The Creek and the Cave. For their second year, they’re …
Almost as if I’d just produced my annual list of comedy festivals and asked the folks at Superfly for details about their planned summer shindig with Comedy Central in San Francisco, here comes Colossal Clusterfest! It’s happening June 2-4, 2017, at the Civic Center Plaza & Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, …
BOOM BOOM BBQ, the SXSW announcement is here! Read it and laugh… South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals (March 10-19, 2017) has announced the initial list of SXSW Comedy Festival participants. This year, the SXSW Comedy Festival celebrates its tenth edition. Over the last decade, the festival has hosted hundreds …
Everybody loves a comedy festival. And in this year of 2016, it doesn’t just feel as though every city has its own comedy festival, because not only do they, but oftentimes, several cities have recruited all-star comedy lineups to their region on the same weekend. And New York City can …
