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(Photo of Josh Gondelman by Mindy Tucker, August 2015) 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 …
Here’s a fun short film some friends of the site just produced. Terry and Maggie Johnston (Micah Sherman and Cathleen Carr) take the cliched childhood marriage pact — if they both found themselves still single 20 years later, then they’d be lawfully wedded to each other — to heart. Even …
Earlier this week, when Jerry Seinfeld met up with Jason Alexander and Seinfeld’s co-creator Larry David at the sitcom’s iconic diner location of Monk’s, the filmmaker directing a real documentary about the real Tom’s Restaurant also was on the scene in New York City’s Morningside Heights. Gian Franco Morini, director …
Stand-up comedian Josh Gondelman isn’t unlike most other stand-ups who work the road and also work on their acts in their home cities and clubs. When he’s not onstage, he often fields queries both strange and stranger from the “civilian” population. Gondelman sat down for Thought Catalog, thought about it, …
Josh Gondelman sincerely is one of the nicest people I know. Normally, in comedy circles, saying someone is nice is the “nice” way to say that person isn’t funny. Thankfully, though, Gondelman proves on his debut CD, “Everything’s The Best,” that he is an exception to this comedy rule. A …
Monday, Monday… OK, comedy fans. Whether or not you have a financial stake in the outcome of the Boston Comedy Festival contest, you still want to know what really went down last night in the third and fourth preliminaries. So here’s another opinion. But first, another opinion: Why didn’t host …
