The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Bill Hicks left a comic legacy and influenced at least a generation of stand-up comedians. One of the things Hick wrote offstage was his 12 Principles of Comedy. They were (reprinted via Chris Hardwick on Nerdist, circa 2009) 1. If you can be yourself on stage nobody else can be …
Janeane Garofalo is, was and shall ever be a comedy darling. She broke through in a big way in 1992, performing on one of the all-time lineups for an HBO Young Comedians Special and co-starring in both The Ben Stiller Show and The Larry Sanders Show. Over the next few years, …
This April Fool’s Day, spend the afternoon listening to the late great Bill Hicks telling us all what fools we were, and still are. SiriusXM will be the first to premiere the uncut version of Hicks’ influential album Rant In E- Minor on SiriusXM’s Comedy Greats channel, preceded by the …
A great long read for your #tbt needs today via David Peisner for Buzzfeed, talking to the surviving comedians who have lived in Cresthill, the so-named home that sits above The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, overlooking the Sunset Strip. Here’s the primer nutgraf action for you: In 1976, when …
I met Ralphie May at the Tempe Improv, shortly before all of you saw him competing in the inaugural season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2003, when he finished runner-up. He since has recorded four Comedy Central specials and in 2015 released his first Netflix stand-up special “Unruly” and …
Busy times for the estate of the late great stand-up comedian Bill Hicks. Tonight across America, cineplexes are hosting a special one-night-only screening of the comedian’s 1992 special, Relentless, plus a half-hour of exclusive interviews and clips curated by Bill’s older brother, Steve. Comedy Dynamics Presents: Bill Hicks, is presented …
Starting now (now being 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific on Thursday, March 26, 2015) and lasting for exactly one week, you’ll have the opportunity to pick up a 15-pack of stand-up comedy videos and audio recordings for the low, low price of whatever you want to pay — or, for …
Comedy Dynamics announced on Thursday that it’ll team up with the estate of the late Bill Hicks to reissue and re-release his entire slate of stand-up comedy albums and specials. All of his albums — Arizona Bay, Dangerous, Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1, 12/16/1961, Love, Laughter and Truth, The Adventure, …
Marc Maron jokingly wondered this summer if anyone ever had looked him up after seeing him on TV in Canada via one of the many comedy “Galas” produced each summer by Montreal’s Just For Laughs. Joke no more. Especially since some media reports described JFL’s new YouTube Channel as releasing …
This May, in celebrating Don Rickles on his 88th birthday, Jerry Seinfeld said of his elder hero: “”On the Mount Rushmore of stand-up comedy, there are four faces, in my opinion: Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Cosby and Don Rickles.” This weekend, following the death of Joan Rivers at 81, Chris …
