The Definitive Guide to Comedy
This is why we cannot have nice things? If you love Dave Chappelle and you miss seeing him on your TV and in your life, then when you finally have the chance to witness Chappelle back onstage performing stand-up comedy, what do you do? What should you do? Sit back …
Comedians used to complain about performing in any comedy club that put comment cards on the tables for audience members to fill out after the show. How many comedians long for those days now, now that the Internet and social media allows every audience member at every stand-up comedy show …
ABC News has its own version of Candid Camera called What Would You Do?, hosted by John Quiñones. The series asks: “How would you respond when you’re thrust into real-life ethical scenarios?” It asks this question literally on the show’s online home page with a quiz. On TV, they hire …
Liz Miele was telling jokes about her dating life at a recent gig at Carolines on Broadway in New York City. So far, so good. Then a guy in the audience interrupted her to hit on her, yelling out and asking her out for drinks. How did you think that …
Ever since Katt Williams announced he was “retiring” from stand-up comedy, he still has managed to pop up in the headlines from time to time, but never for good news on his part. Arrests. Altercations. Strange incidents. Actually, Williams had been finding himself on the wrong side of the headline …
It’s a rare but real phenomenon: Audience member who falls asleep during live comedy show. I’ve seen it happen in recent years during the tapings of stand-up comedy specials for both Bill Burr and Greg Giraldo. And now it’s happened again. This time in Ventura, Calif., and stand-up comedian Mike …
