The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s Roast Battle Week on Comedy Central, with a full-scale competition going down at Montreal’s Just For Laughs — and you’ll be seeing the highlights each night on Comedy Central, culminating with a live broadcast of the finals next Sunday from Montreal. But first, how did this summer’s massive Roast …
Harris Wittels died a year ago today. The comedian and writer was only 30. He’s one of far too many victims of addiction to drugs and alcohol. Last October, surviving family members of Wittels and the late Greg Giraldo — along with comedians and thousands more living in recovery or …
Dave Attell gives back to some of his fellow comedy veterans, and in a very real way has given back to military veterans and their families, through filming his new stand-up showcase series, Comedy Underground with Dave Attell, which debuts at 1 a.m. Sunday on Comedy Central following the premiere of …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Recording your comedy CD in Ottawa, Canada, isn’t something you’d normally see from an American comedian. But Jesse Joyce wants you to know he’s not as normal as you might think. And on his 2011 disc, “Pro Joyce,” Joyce lets you know that by opening with a series of bits …
