The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I bought Doug Stanhope’s new memoir, “Digging Up Mother,” because he told me I was in the book. He could have been drunk when he said that. No, wait. He definitely was, because he said so. Either way, imagine my delight and yours this week when Audible released an audiobook …
The New York Comedy Festival unveiled its list of headlining acts for 2016, including Tracy Morgan, Marc Maron and Tig Notaro, all performing at Carnegie Hall; Dane Cook, Chris D’Elia, Trevor Noah, Patton Oswalt and Tim Minchin, all at the Beacon Theater; Bill Maher at The Theater at Madison Square …
The neurosis is real. The rage lies just below the surface. The inner blogger reporting on his condition: Is that supposed to be me? More later. Marc Maron: More Later, directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and filmed at The Vic Theatre in Chicago this June — the same month Marc Maron …
A great long read for your #tbt needs today via David Peisner for Buzzfeed, talking to the surviving comedians who have lived in Cresthill, the so-named home that sits above The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, overlooking the Sunset Strip. Here’s the primer nutgraf action for you: In 1976, when …
Today’s guest is Marc Maron. Marc and I go back to the summer of 2001, when I interviewed him during the tour for his one-man show, “The Jerusalem Syndrome.” A lot has happened personally and professionally for both me and Marc since then – I remember visiting his garage to …
“How do we talk to folks who already aren’t so dug in to a particular way of thinking about politics? That we can create more space for people to have a normal, ordinary conversation? And one in which the lines aren’t clearly drawn in black and white, and it’s not …
“Brace yourselves. Are you sitting down? OK. Alright. Now take a breath. If everything goes as planned, on Monday, I will post a WTF — an episode of this show that you’re listening to now featuring myself in conversation with, talking to, at my home in my garage — me …
This is some deep-level inside baseball comedy feuding, so before I even begin to explain Dan Nainan to you, I’m just going to leave this here for you to see and here. Three hours and 20 minutes of Nainan appearing on Patrick Melton’s Nobody Likes Onions podcast, talking about a …
There are so many places to see stand-up comedy on TV and online during this digital comedy boom, that it certainly has become difficult to know what credits even matter any longer. As Grant Pardee notes in a piece today for Paste Magazine: “It was funny to see Madonna perform …
Starting now (now being 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific on Thursday, March 26, 2015) and lasting for exactly one week, you’ll have the opportunity to pick up a 15-pack of stand-up comedy videos and audio recordings for the low, low price of whatever you want to pay — or, for …
