The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Production on season two of HBO’s Crashing just wrapped in New York City at the end of August, with plenty of on-location shoots at comedy clubs, sidewalks and restaurants, in addition to the studio they had to build to replicate the old Boston Comedy Club, which now itself is a …
Greg Fitzsimmons first met Kevin Meaney when Fitzsimmons was just a kid, and Meaney was just a teenaged waiter at the country club the Fitzsimmons belonged to in Westchester County. After Meaney died suddenly on Friday at the age of 60, Fitzsimmons paid tribute to his lifelong friend and mentor …
Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! JIM FLORENTINE’s “COMEDY METAL MIDGETS” (Jim Interviews Comic Friend …
“This is my first one-hour special, and they said I record it anywhere I wanted. And I said, this is it. I’m coming back to the fucked-up Tarrytown, New York, theater. I want to be here. This is it. I mean, really. All of my incredible memories are growing up, …
The SPEED channel announced today that it’d launch its new game show, Pumped!, on Nov. 17, hosted by stand-up comedian and radio/podcaster Greg Fitzsimmons. The network has ordered 20 half-hour episodes of the show, in which Fitzsimmons surprises patrons at undisclosed Sunoco gas stations, then quizzes them with automotive trivia …
Paul F. Tompkins had alerted all of his Los Angeles area fans that he’d be leaving the West Coast for a year due to the show business. We learned he’d be hosting a new version of VH1’s Best Week Ever. But what would that mean, exactly? The weekly recap mockery …
If the lineup for the 7th annual Gerry Red Wilson Foundation comedy benefit didn’t warn me, then the crowd waiting outside Town Hall on March 5 should have…as much as the comedians onstage wanted to celebrate and honor their late friend, the audience in the seats wanted jokes about sex …
