DIY for women in comedy = Bad Assery, the first “women and comedy” conference
For the coming three nights and two days, funny women will gather not only to celebrate their...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Mar 27, 2015 | Uncategorized | 0 |
For the coming three nights and two days, funny women will gather not only to celebrate their...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Apr 9, 2009 | Uncategorized | 1 |
Screenvision has produced a series of seven live stand-up comedy films from Broadway Comedy Club in NYC that will appear on movie screens nationwide beginning May 4. Here's the trailer: OK. So host Caroline Rhea tells you to...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Nov 6, 2008 | Uncategorized | 3 |
If you were to ask me at the start of the 2008 New York’s Funniest Stand-Up contest, who I thought would win, well, someone did, and before I could say "John Mulaney" (whoops, he’s not even in the contest?...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Nov 3, 2008 | Uncategorized | 0 |
One of my newspaper alma maters, the New York Daily News, devoted much of its Sunday features section to comedy, thanks in part to this week’s New York Comedy Festival, but also to how much comedy has impacted politics...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Oct 29, 2008 | Uncategorized | 0 |
A reliable source informed me that these are your first five comedians advancing to the finals of the 2008 New York’s Funniest Stand-Up contest: Nate Bargatze, Esther Ku, Julian McCullough, Stone & Stone, Reese Waters...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Jul 14, 2008 | Uncategorized | 9 |
To all of the thousands of you who have reached my site looking for information about Esther Ku, thank you. For those of you who got here via the Google search terms "Esther Ku naked," shame on you. Although I can tell...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Jul 10, 2008 | Uncategorized | 3 |
So here we are. These are your 12 finalists, and after watching that hourlong recap from last week, we’re only reminded of a few good stand-ups who got left behind. Let us not mourn for them, but celebrate them, for they...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Jul 3, 2008 | Uncategorized | 0 |
After all of this, we have come to this…the second semifinal round in Las Vegas, where another 16 stand-ups will be cut down to five (make that seven) finalists for the sixth season of Last Comic Standing. Time to deadblog...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Jul 3, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 |
Want to talk Last Comic Standing with one of its "potential" (ahem) finalists? Esther Ku is offering a live chat on her site at 10 p.m. Eastern once tonight’s semifinals show from Vegas ends. I’ve already...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Jun 26, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 |
Welcome to the first half of the semifinals in Las Vegas, the night when Dan Naturman gets the shaft for a second time on Last Comic Standing — spoiler alert!!! — where we see if Bill Bellamy tell jokes, and...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Jun 3, 2008 | Uncategorized | 0 |
Judy Gold gets dismayed by all of the foreigners in the crowd, but only because it’s making her work harder for her crowd work. She plows through nevertheless. Gold tells a joke about seeing an Asian baby…with Asian...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | May 23, 2008 | Uncategorized | 0 |
So we begin the sixth season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and already it’s clear they’re still playing from the American Idol of Comedy playbook, what with host Bill Bellamy delivering the...
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