Employee of the Month (September 2022): Kate Berlant
by Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employee of the Month …
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Americans performing at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
August means comedy has taken over Edinburgh, Scotland. This year, more than 60 of the 3,972 shows playing nightly across the city will feature American …
Hear from comedians performing at Just For Laughs Montreal in 2017
OK. So I’ve only sat down to podcast with 28 of the comedians performing this week so far as part of the 2017 Just For …
Episode #140: Kate Berlant and John Early
Kate Berlant and John Early are unique characters in stand-up comedy, and yet you almost always see them together, whether it’s in each other’s half-hour …
Kate Berlant and John Early on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
What would happen if you treated your first stand-up comedy performance on The Tonight Show as a double-act delivering an acceptance speech? We found out …
Kate Berlant and John Early talk about their Vimeo 555 anthology and the fringes of Hollywood
Kate Berlant and John Early worked together on each other’s half-hour special episode of The Characters for Netflix, and often collaborate on- and offstage. Now …
Episode #130: 2016 Comedy MVPs with Jason Zinoman of the New York Times
Jason Zinoman is the comedy critic for The New York Times, and has written a new book about David Letterman which will come out April …
Funny or Die launches Jokes For Votes tour to register Californians before 2016 Election Day
Funny or Die has assembled a star collection of stand-up comedians to barnstorm up and down California over the next month to encourage residents to register …
Art, commerce and somewhere in between lies The Characters of Kate Berlant on Netflix
Kate Berlant’s 36-minute special for The Characters series on Netflix opens in a most remarkable way, as she barely appears onscreen in the first few …
John Early separates character from caricature in his special for The Characters on Netflix
It becomes painfully clear to everyone around John Early in his 35-minute special for The Characters series on Netflix that the comedian and actor has …