The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A second season of EPIX’s Unprotected Sets kicks off this Friday night, with weekly half-hour episodes spotlighting stand-up comedians on the rise. Comedians Featured by Episode (with their hometowns in parenthesis): Episode 201: Calvin Evans (Chicago) & Hanna Dickinson (Washington, DC), premiering Friday, Oct. 16 at midnight Episode 202: Kira …
In case you missed the stand-up showcase series Unprotected Sets when it aired on EPIX in 2018, don’t worry. You’ll soon also be able to enjoy it as a podcast. The first episode debuted Aug. 5 via MGM and Audio Up, with Zainab Johnson. Here’s how Audio Up describes the …
I have some problems with Unprotected Sets. Not a big fan of the title. Definitely not a fan of the promotional poster and imaging, which doubles down on the sexual innuendo by giving you the impression that stand-up comedy is best represented by a bunch of attacking sperm. Unless you …
Jim Norton is a best-selling author and comedian you’ve seen in multiple stand-up specials on HBO and EPIX and in recurring roles on Louie and Inside Amy Schumer. But you’ve likely also heard him for almost two decades now every morning on the radio — first as the third mic …
If you’re wondering why I haven’t gotten back to you about your stand-up comedy album, then please allow me to remind you just what kind of comedy boom you’re a part of these days. In 2015, TV networks and streaming services produced 44 stand-up hours (or specials). That seemed like …
Before she ever started stand-up comedy, Wanda Sykes worked as a contractor for the NSA and hyphenated her last name to include her husband’s surname. Now she’s married to a French woman and raising two white children. So Sykes literally sets about answering the question posed by the title of …
Michael Ian Black opens his new stand-up special, Noted Expert (his third hour, and first for EPIX), by noting that you can tell it’s going to actually be special, then suggests kicking things off right with a montage of puppies licking his face. Almost on cue, things don’t go well. …
The neurosis is real. The rage lies just below the surface. The inner blogger reporting on his condition: Is that supposed to be me? More later. Marc Maron: More Later, directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and filmed at The Vic Theatre in Chicago this June — the same month Marc Maron …
Welcome to Last Things First. This is the show that asks comedians about the historic lasts and firsts in their lives as their comedy careers have blossomed — from young people with dreams to adult people living those dreams. Or still dreaming. Or still dreaming. Questions both big and small …
If you’re wondering what Dennis Miller was doing in Austin for the Moontower Comedy Festival on Thursday night, look no further than his younger brother, Rich. Rich Miller is a co-owner of Austin’s Cap City Comedy Club who also books, manages or owns comedy clubs across the country — and …
