The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A year ago, most comedy clubs had shuttered for the pandemic, leaving stand-ups to go to whatever lengths to find live audiences, from parks to rooftops and anywhere in between where they could set up a microphone, an amplifier, and spaced seating. This summer? We haven’t outlasted the COVID-19 pandemic, …
It’s always extra special when a comedian earns a nationwide TV ad campaign. Even more special when it’s the Super Bowl. And as Matt Braunger attests, that much extra special when comedians haven’t had regular live shows and touring to count on for income. Braunger fronts an all-star ad for …
Matt Braunger’s wife zings him so bad, or so good, that he refers to her as Donna Rickles. Just imagine what she’ll say about him now that he’s fessed up to being bad at smoking weed. Roll the clip.
Matt Braunger’s routine about an elevator ride from hell has become the first animated Snapchat show for TBS and Conan’s new series, Team Coco’s Comedy Club. New animated stand-up routines will debut Sundays throughout the winter, developed specifically for Snapchat’s mobile platform. You’ll be able to catch them on Snapchat from …
Matt Braunger is from Portland, went to theater school in New York City, but learned how to be a comedian in Chicago. He got his first big break on MADtv, but you more likely have seen him on a variety of other TV shows, including Up All Night, United States of …
If all of this talk about and from Montreal’s Just For Laughs has you feeling left out of what’s hot in the comedy game right now, no need to fear. You can see who’s hot right now on your cable TV, thanks to the first-ever stand-up special recorded this spring …
Matt Braunger was 39, single, no kids, renting an apartment when I saw him record this hour-plus set last summer at The Bell House in Brooklyn. “I think I’m fucking killing it, you guys,” Braunger told the audience then, and now as his stand-up special, Big Dumb Animal, debuts tonight …
Comedy Central announced its latest development slate for webseries via CC:Studios, which has become more vital as a pipeline to TV this year as two previous CC:Studios projects — This Is Not Happening and Idiotsitter — have made or are making the leap from YouTube to boob tube. “I am …
Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! ALISON ROSEN IS YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND (ARIYBNF 287 …
“Marc Maron, Brendon Walsh and Matt Braunger all performed at the Festival, and I had the opportunity to follow and photograph them over the course of three days, on and off stage. Throughout this series, I had to embrace the unpredictable – lighting was often terrible, moments were fleeting and …
