The Definitive Guide to Comedy
South By Southwest has filled out its 2016 feature film slate for SXSW, and a Robert Klein documentary directed by Klein himself will round out a comedy bill that’s quite meta. Last year, hit flicks Trainwreck and Spy both made their world premieres in Austin for SXSW. For 2016, the comedy movies …
Mike Birbiglia’s latest stand-up tour is headed Off-Broadway, back to the same theater at 45 Bleecker St. where Birbiglia developed Sleepwalk With Me. Mike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes will play Lynn Redgrave Theater, with previews beginning Feb. 2, 2016, and an official opening Feb. 11. “I’m so excited to be …
If you’re ever in a comedy club or theater, sometimes you may have the opportunity to glance at old cast photos and headshots along the walls. Some faces you now know very well; others remain unfamiliar. In group photos of sketch and improv groups, have they all remained friends? Don’t …
Welcome to Last Things First. This is the show that asks comedians about the historic lasts and firsts in their lives as their comedy careers have blossomed — from young people with dreams to adult people living those dreams. Or still dreaming. Questions both big and small are asked and …
This holiday weekend proves the perfect time to catch up with the cast of this summer’s hit comedy movie, Trainwreck — they’re taking over SiriusXM, providing backstage videos from their recent stand-up comedy tour for regional charities, and offering you the chance to win a trip to attend the official …
If you weren’t already excited to see the movie Trainwreck this summer (and well, you should be! please read my early review of Trainwreck from SXSW), then this certainly will do the trick. Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow will hit the road in June for seven all-star stand-up comedy showcases …
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 …
Last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon kicked off an ambitious, weird experiment in advertising that’s both old-school #tbt-worthy, whilst also modern enough to throw in all of the social media that goes with using a hashtag and an acronym like #tbt. For four consecutive Thursday nights, Lexus is assembling …
Mike Birbiglia’s film adaptation of his one-man show, Sleepwalk With Me, debuted at Sundance at the beginning of the year and has screened to critical acclaim at other festivals such as SXSW and Montreal’s Just For Laughs. IFC Films has picked up the distribution rights to Birbiglia’s movie, with plans …
Earlier today, Mike Birbiglia declared: “I am obviously a culinary genius.” What, pray tell, had the stand-up comedian and storyteller done with food this time? Certainly something involving pizza, considering how much he talks about the pies onstage and off. If you guessed pizza, then you were very very very …
