The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Mike Bridenstine is based in Los Angeles, was raised in Iowa, but it was his time in between in Chicago that helped form him and his friendships as a comedian. Bridenstine has written a book about the rise of the alt-comedy scene in Chicago in the early 2000s, which included …
Turns out Comedy Central loved Mash Up, after all. Almost a year since broadcasting the initial stand-up/film/visual comedy special from T.J. Miller and director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Comedy Central has ordered eight new half-hour episodes of Mash Up. The original special featured Hannibal Buress, Kumail Nanjiani, Matt Braunger and Kyle Kinane. …
Earlier in the 2000s, a group of Chicago stand-up comedians began working together to make their careers a little more innovative and in tunes with the birth of YouTube. They were known as Blerds. Many of them have splintered off to Los Angeles and New York, but next week, several …
