The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A week ago, Louis CK released “Whatever Threatens You,” the first-ever stand-up comedy special by Barry Crimmins, some 35 years after Crimmins first arrived in Boston and helped cultivate the greatness that that city’s comedy scene has birthed. How’s life been for Barry Crimmins this past week? “Uh, eventful.” Crimmins …
Everybody loves a comedy festival. And in this year of 2016, it doesn’t just feel as though every city has its own comedy festival, because not only do they, but oftentimes, several cities have recruited all-star comedy lineups to their region on the same weekend. And New York City can …
Barry Crimmins calls his new stand-up special, released in video and audio versions Sunday night by Louis C.K. (who directed and produced it), the “Best spesh by a progressive, rabble-rousing, bigot-baiting,trauma-surviving comic this week!!” Here’s what CK had to say about releasing Barry Crimmins: Whatever Threatens You (it’s his third release …
Years before 30 Rock hit NBC and won all of the Emmys, Dino Stamatopoulos, Stephen Colbert, Scott Adsit, Robert Smigel and Michael Stoyanov wrote a sitcom pilot in the 1990s starring themselves and a then-unknown Tina Fey, set behind the scenes of a show much like Saturday Night Live. This has to …
This just in: Louis CK is making an unscheduled extra stop on his stand-up tour in Minneapolis tonight. As Acme Comedy Co. told fans in an email this afternoon: “Louis CK heard about the recent struggles with the construction around Acme Comedy Co. and wanted to help out. He reached …
Louis C.K. has arrived in Montreal on the official Just For Laughs schedule. He’s even flown in under the radar for Midnight Surprise and other gigs one year. For 2016, the star stand-up comedian and Emmy-winning TV auteur is a last-minute addition to JFL. Catch six-time Emmy Award winner Louis …
After a few warm-up shows in recent weeks at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, Louis C.K. is ready to launch his next prolonged stand-up comedy tour, starting tomorrow night in Baltimore and extending through the end of 2016. The tour will start with theaters this month, then jumping to …
Louis CK appeared on Monday morning’s edition of The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, wherein he acknowledged that he needed the publicity now to help spur sales of his DIY-TV drama, Horace and Pete. CK had sprung the show’s first episode online on his website in January as a complete …
Louis C.K. has made seven episodes of his self-financed, self-made TV series, Horace and Pete, so far. He acknowledges it’s not a sitcom, unless you consider it as what the bar from Cheers would look like if you visited it during the afternoon — 2 to 5 p.m. — before …
Louis CK gave his first TV interview Wednesday night since releasing Horace and Pete as a TV series exclusively on his website, and explained it to Jimmy Kimmel this way: “It’s fun to do it yourself. Because you watch people react to it, and there isn’t some company making a decision. …
