The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Budd Friedman didn’t intend to set the standard for stand-up comedy clubs across America (and the world). You might say it only happened thanks to a little Improvisation. Tip your waitstaff! OK, I’ll see myself out, but not before seeing out this show-business icon who changed the game for live …
The Improv comedy club chain is more than back in business, announcing today it has expanded back up to 25 locations nationwide with the planned opening of a new club in Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Improv will open Aug. 20, 2021, at The Corners of Brookfield shopping center, located between Waukesha …
New York Comedy Club and Broadway Comedy Club joined six small city theater venues in filing a lawsuit Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, arguing the city and state unfairly have kept them shut down this fall while allowing other entertainment venues to reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The …
Dangerfield’s, the iconic and legendary comedy club opened by the late Rodney Dangerfield in 1969 on New York City’s Upper East Side, has become the latest casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new commercial real estate listing has appeared for the building at 1118 First Ave., asking $25,000 to rent …
Sad but true. Cap City Comedy Club, Austin’s shining beacon for stand-up and experimental comedy since 1986, has closed for good. Here’s the letter that went out this afternoon… Dear Austin Comedy Lovers, We laughed until we cried. We are devastated to announce that we have to close the club. …
Jeremiah Watkins, a comedian based out of Los Angeles who’s a staple at The Comedy Store as the bandleader of Kill Tony, part of “The Wave” at the weekly Roast Battles, and host of a recurring show called Stand-Up On The Spot. Watkins also has a podcast, Jeremiah Wonders. But …
The Laugh Factory’s Chicago club has announced it will reopen this Saturday (Aug. 1), in accordance with the city of Chicago’s reopening guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. The club plans to put on shows on weekends only through September, with audiences limited to 50 per show. All of the performers …
Time for a quick game of Would You Rather… Would You Rather…tell jokes from the relative safety and comfort of your living room on Zoom to an unknown number of pages of 25 boxes containing faces you may or may not know are laughing with you, and feel like you’re …
When the nonprofit Comedy Gives Back held town hall meetings last month in New York City and Los Angeles at The Stand and Hollywood Improv, respectively, comedians and industry folk suggested all sorts of ways that Comedy Gives Back could fulfill its mission statement in giving back to the comedy …
Women may have made great strides in comedy this decade, but judging by America’s comedy clubs, they’re still not getting booked on a regular basis. A new project, Project Comedy Club Database, broke down some numbers. Looking specifically at the past three months, September-November 2019, the project found only 16 …
