The Definitive Guide to Comedy
How Henry Phillips became a comedy troubadour is as interesting a story as whether or not he is one or what that even means. In fact, Phillips now has made two movies poking fun at his life and career, Punching The Clown, which won the 2009 audience award at Slamdance, and …
Danny Lobell has been talking with comedians about their lives and everything else for longer than you may realize, first with his all-color glossy Comical Magazine, and then with Comical Radio in 2004, run out of the Baruch College radio station in New York City. Everyone came through, including the …
Jack Vaughn launched Comedy Central Records in 2002 thanks to his love of Mitch Hedberg and other unappreciated comedians of the time, and won four Best Comedy Album Grammys with them. A decade later, he moved to Hollywood and joined Comedy Dynamics and New Wave, where Vaughn executive produced and helped …
Bonnie McFarlane is a comedian and writer who grew up on a farm in northern Canada. She has appeared on two seasons of Last Comic Standing, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman and has an HBO comedy special to her credit. She wrote and directed the documentary, Women Aren’t …
Henry Zebrowski is a force of nature onstage or onscreen, clothes on or, as the case sometimes is, in the buff. The shine on Zebrowski’s star power continues to brighten – from his earliest appearances in web videos for CollegeHumor and his own group, Murderfist, through the Adult Swim series, …
Grace Parra has broken out as a star contributor and panelist for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore since she joined the late-night Comedy Central talker in November 2015. But Parra thought she might just as well have enjoyed a career behind the scenes as a sitcom writer, or perhaps …
Steel Panther has had one of the best-selling comedy albums of the past two years with their 2014 album, “All You Can Eat,” and also topped the comedy charts with their first album, 2009’s “Feel The Steel” and 2011’s “Balls Out.” When they first started performing glam metal rock on …
Nato Green is perhaps the most activist comedian I know. And I know more than a few comedian activists. Green lives and breathes San Francisco, not only as a comedian, but also as a union organizer, husband, father of twin daughters, columnist for the San Francisco Examiner, and host of …
Lance Bangs said talking to Clare O’Kane now is like catching Janeane Garofalo circa 1991. O’Kane started stand-up comedy in the San Francisco Bay Area, then moved to Los Angeles and fell into a house with other comedians. Which is how she stars in the new Viceland cable channel showcasing stand-up comedy houses …
Lance Bangs has become today’s go-to director for comedians filming their stand-up specials, road shows, showcases and documentaries. His credits since 2013 alone include directing Hannibal Buress, Marc Maron, Chelsea Peretti, Jen Kirkman, Kyle Kinane, John Hodgman and Bridget Everett. He followed Todd Barry on his Crowd Work Tour, hopped …
