The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A year ago, Matt McCarthy was debuting industry-wise as a New Face in Montreal. These days, you can catch McCarthy literally tearing into a box of cereal in a nationwide TV commercial for breakfast at McDonald’s. As a McCarthy myself, I made sure to corner this comedian downstairs at Gotham …
Like many stand-up comedians in this day and age, Na’im Lynn is working his way up the industry ladder, appearing as a new face in Aspen at the late, great, U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, then competing in last year’s Comedy Central Open Mic Fights, to this weekend’s appearance on Live …
The Comedy Central describes Vince Averill as a New York City comedian who has himself been described as smart and relatable. His opening joke on the Live at Gotham follows suit, questioning how you could/would/should react should you meet someone from an online date and learn that date is your …
As I mentioned this spring, part of the secret to Joe List‘s charm is his onstage nervousness, which goes against the grain of stand-up comedy in that normally, audiences are less likely to laugh when they sense the stand-up is nervous. But then you have a guy like List, who …
You know Variety just named TJ Miller as one of its 10 comics to watch in 2008, and then I referenced a joke Miller has about ketchup bottles? Well, you are in luck, my fine readers, because Miller is featured on tonight’s edition of Live at Gotham on Comedy Central. …
Mike Vecchione has taught in the schools and survived to tell about it, in jokes and such. He was on Live at Gotham over the weekend, and something tells me you’ll be seeing more of him in other places soon enough…he gets an applause break on his opening routine on …
The Cleveland area has brought us Ryan Dalton, comedian, and this was his Live at Gotham debut from over the weekend. Would you like to watch it? Here you go. Dalton has an important message for you about text messages:
Nate Bargatze (from Hickory, but not the same Hickory as Jon Reep: fun fact! did you just say there is more than one Hickory? funner facter!) made his Live at Gotham debut last weekend, and here are the clips to prove it! We can even start with a clip that …
Mo Mandel won last summer’s Open Mic Fight contest with Comedy Central, which gave him cash money and air time on Comedy Central. He also appeared on last weekend’s episode of the network’s Live At Gotham, where he told audiences that he goes by Mo but has a Hindu name, …
If you missed last weekend’s Live at Gotham, then you also missed the young Rob O’Reilly joke about race and sex. Oh, wait. We have the Internet here. And the Internet plays videos now, for your pleasure. Here is a clip…