Judy Gold – The Comic's Comic

Episode #299: Judy Gold

by Sean L. McCarthyMay 12, 2020May 12, 2020

Over the past 25 years, Judy Gold has starred in her own half-hour stand-up specials for HBO, Comedy Central and LOGO, has won two Emmy Awards …

Judy Gold, Wanda Sykes, Jenny Hagel and Cameron Esposito take on what’s acceptable in joke telling in 2019 (Women in the World Summit)

by Sean L. McCarthyApril 30, 2019April 30, 2019

In case you missed it, and according to this YouTube view count of 508, you did miss it entirely, earlier this month at the 2019 …

Dave Flebotte talks inside comedy baseball of his Showtime series with Jim Carrey, “I’m Dying Up Here”

by Sean L. McCarthyJuly 6, 2018

I’m Dying Up Here almost didn’t survive to a second season. Dave Flebotte, who with Jim Carrey created the Showtime adaptation of William Knoedelseder’s best-seller about …

Vice News explores the politics of booking college comedians in 2018

by Sean L. McCarthyJune 13, 2018

In case you missed it, VICE News shipped up to Boston this spring to talk to bookers for three local colleges — Emerson, Simmons and …

Comedians in the age of Trump

by Sean L. McCarthyJanuary 23, 2018

VICE News Tonight on HBO gathered a group of New York City comedians and let them conduct their own roundtable discussion about how much fun …

Review: “The Last Laugh” documentary explores humor, the Holocaust and taboos

by Sean L. McCarthyMarch 17, 2017March 17, 2017

The Last Laugh opens with a quote onscreen from the noted non-comedian, German novelist Heinrich Mann, who wrote: “Whoever has cried enough, laughs.” Mann fled Nazi …

truTV goes inside The Comedy Cellar for truInside

by Sean L. McCarthyApril 19, 2016April 19, 2016

truTV’s behind-the-scenes comedy history series, truInside, has focused on classic big-screen comedies over its first six weeks: Airplane!, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Bridesmaids, The …