The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Adrienne Truscott won multiple awards when she took her one-woman show about rape jokes to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including honors for “Comic Originality” and the prestigious Panel Prize. That was August 2013. Some three years later, the summer of 2016 finds Truscott doing “Adrienne Truscott’s Asking For It: A One-Lady …
Leslie Goshko joins me in a special episode recorded live at QED in Astoria. She’s featured on a new episode of truTV’s Impractical Jokers, but there’s nothing impractical about going from teaching music and theater in Tulsa to the Broadway stage, at least the way she tells it. Goshko won a national …
Gad Elmaleh is so famous in France that he performs to arena-sized audiences and gets recognized everywhere he goes. In America, not so much. So much not so that Elmaleh can joke about how his luck winning over a lady in Los Angeles turns from bad to comically so only …
You’ve never seen anyone onstage quite like Bridget Everett, and after this week, you’ll never seen anyone up close and personal as you have Everett. The cabaret queen closes out the third season of Inside Amy Schumer tonight with a musical number, performs her hit Off-Broadway show “Rock Bottom” four …
On her Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer, the comedian breaks up her sketch format with pre-recorded stand-up routines. You may be familiar with how Louis C.K. does that on his FX series, or vaguely yet more familiar with how Jerry Seinfeld used to do that on the NBC television …
