The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Nerdist School may be dying this Easter weekend, but it’ll rise from the dead next weekend as The Ruby LA, a new, more inclusive training center for comedians on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard. The Ruby LA’s launch will coincide with a 12-hour comedy festival, The Ruby Assembly, on April 7, …
For all of the plights that befall women who pursue stand-up comedy just getting to the stage, there’s also the hurdle of overcoming stereotypes audiences have of what they’re like onstage. The Comedienne Project stars stand-up comedians Katie Hannigan and Corinne Fisher, and directed by Ted Alexandro, made its debut …
It already has been a great 2014 for Amy Schumer. The 32-year-old comedian is enjoying her second season of the critically-acclaimed and popular Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer, touring theaters across the country and earning an American Comedy Awards nomination as the top theater comic in the process, prepping …
Well, this is going to be interesting. As interesting as finding out how and who at FX decided upon which photos of Jim Norton and Lindy West to use? Who knows… Ready or not, though, late-night TV talk shows will offer something audiences haven’t seen much of in a generation …
Jerry Lewis is at the Cannes Film Festival, so reporters had the bright idea to ask him if he has discovered any funny women in the 15 years since he had declared publicly that there weren’t such a thing. Various reports, including the AP, noted that Lewis first jokingly offered …
Erin Judge is a stand-up comedian who appeared on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham. Judge tours everywhere with her Pink Collar Comedy Tour and also co-produces The Afterlife, a monthly comedy showcase in New York City. This is republished from her blog, So Make It Up, with the author’s permission. it’d be nicer if …
