The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Camille Harris wrote a couple of musical lines that stood out so much on the IFC/CollegeHumor special, Comedy Music Hall of Fame, that Harris has not only written the rest of a song to surround those lines, but now also made a music video for it. This is “Baby on the Subway.” …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Hey, it’s Liam McEneaney! Liam is a Queens native who turned his weekly comedy showcase in a Lower East Side bar basement into a concert film, Tell Your Friends!, that premiered at SXSW and also played at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival and Comic-Con. His own credits include VH1’s Best Week Ever, Comedy …
CollegeHumor and IFC created the hour TV special, CollegeHumor’s Comedy Music Hall of Fame, but after watching it twice over the weekend, I still cannot figure out why this exists. Both CollegeHumor and IFC enjoy reputations of existing on the fringes of mainstream comedy, but they’re not trying to make …
For the coming three nights and two days, funny women will gather not only to celebrate their various styles of performing comedy but also to share their experiences in making their voices heard — and perhaps most importantly, move the conversation forward instead of rehashing old, already-decided debates about whether …
