The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Matt Balaker is writing a book about Greg Giraldo; scratch that, he’s writing THE book on Greg Giraldo, as there hasn’t been a proper biography about the outrageously witty stand-up comedian since he died in 2010 at the age of only 44. Balaker, a comedian himself, has interviewed more than …
Kevin Bartini is a stand-up comedian and writer who audiences see first when they attend tapings of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central. Bartini also has warmed up TV audiences for The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, and sometimes now The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He …
At 83, Dick Gregory remains an active comedy legend, logging more than 200 stand-up gigs a year. Gregory changed the game in 1961 when he performed at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Club in Chicago, and the notoriety of becoming the first black comedian to play to white crowds led him soon thereafter …
Nick Brazao is a producer with Just for Laughs, the world’s largest international comedy festival. He has been with the company since 2009, working on all of Just for Laughs’ festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Chicago and Sydney. Nick produces the Off-JFL club and theater shows for Montreal each July, and spearheads …
You may know Dan McCoy as an Emmy-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central and now still writing for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, but you probably hear him more often as the producer and co-host of The Flop House podcast talking about bad …
Maz Jobrani has his first starring movie out now called Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero, which he co-wrote and co-produced and calls “The Persian Pink Panther meets Borat.” He already has three Showtime comedy specials out, the latest one also the title of his best-selling book of 2015, I’m Not a Terrorist, …
You can hear my next guest, Dan Soder, at night and sometimes in the morning on SiriusXM satellite radio. He co-hosts The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson Monday and Wednesday nights on Comedy Central Radio, and often sits in as the third mic in the morning on Opie with Jim …
Will Forte and Kristen Schaal star in FOX sitcom The Last Man on Earth (which Forte created), and they celebrated the second-season finale with a screening at The Paley Center for Media in New York City. But first, they stopped on the red carpet to talk to me about how they …
Hey, it’s Liam McEneaney! Liam is a Queens native who turned his weekly comedy showcase in a Lower East Side bar basement into a concert film, Tell Your Friends!, that premiered at SXSW and also played at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival and Comic-Con. His own credits include VH1’s Best Week Ever, Comedy …
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 …
