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I’d reviewed Chris Gethard’s one-man show, “Career Suicide,” more than a year ago while he was still performing it at his comedy home, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. Enjoyed it then, and perhaps even more now that Gethard had the time to workshop it across America, …
The Chris Gethard Show lives! And will live on as a live national cable TV show, with 16 new hour-long episodes ordered by truTV. It had aired two seasons on Fusion, after making the leap from stage show at the UCB Theatre to community access TV and livestreaming from NYC. …
Chris Gethard’s one-man show, Career Suicide, premieres this coming Saturday on HBO. But May 1 also marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Month, so Gethard sat down with fellow comedians Wyatt Cenac, Patti Harrison, Aparna Nancherla and Phoebe Robinson to explore different paths and experiences in dealing with depression …
Far from it, Chris Gethard’s powerful one-man show, “Career Suicide,” will give him his first HBO special because of it. HBO announced the news today. You can hear Chris Gethard tell me about his life and career on Episode #105 of my podcast, Last Things First. And you can read …
What were the nine most-liked shots I photographed and shared on my Instagram page for @thecomicscomic in 2016? Tracy Morgan inviting his daughter to take the mic after his Carnegie Hall performance at the 2016 New York Comedy Festival, and I was fortunate enough to be standing in front of …
That moment when your therapist asks you to describe your drinking, and this is the story you call up as an example. This is a scene from Chris Gethard’s one-man show, “Career Suicide,” which he performed on Tuesday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Gethard also sat down with Colbert, where …
If Election Day 2016 has stressed you out, then watching the live voting results on an actual news station may be too much for you. Perhaps you need some comedians to dissect it for you? In Comedy Boom 2.0, plenty of such option exist! To wit: Noon EST: Live, 12 …
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 …
Alamo Drafthouse, a 25-location chain of movie theaters based in Austin that prides itself on offering high-quality food with their movie offerings (and has expanded to include its own festival, Fantastic Fest, and entertainment website, Birth.Movies.Death), is celebrating the grand opening of its newest location in downtown Brooklyn this weekend …
Here’s a Funny or Die video about Career Suicide, which allows me to type two dichotomies at once! Judd Apatow lampoons his own problems in relations to those of Chris Gethard, which allows them to stumble into the inspiration to take Gethard’s gripping one-man show, “Career Suicide,” to a theater …
