The Definitive Guide to Comedy
How was your Thanksgiving weekend? Good? Good. Mike Birbiglia entered his holiday season knowing that he’ll spend at least the first half of 2012 on the road touring his latest one-man show, “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend.” Birbiglia workshopped the show — which covers his relationships with women, his attitude toward marriage …
The Thurber House has announced its finalists for the annual Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the trio represents a wide spectrum of comedic writing, although two of them share a propensity for telling stories on public radio’s This American Life, while one has a longtime history as a sportswriter …
Ira Glass is hosting a live edition of his radio program, This American Life, that will happen before a sold-out audience at NYU's Skirball Center and broadcast on 400 movie screens across the country, with stories from Mike Birbiglia, Dan Savage and Starlee Kine, a "special investigation" by Dave Hill …
Location, location, location. That's the mantra in real estate, and perhaps the folks at Adult Swim followed it by choosing Bleecker and Lafayette as the setting for their larger-than-life advertisement for Delcoated, the very funny new short series that airs on Thursday nights. (Thanks, Aziz) You can catch up with …
If you live near New York City, or even in New England, you see the TV ad for the New York Times Weekender subscription a lot. A lot, a lot. Perhaps this ad even runs nationally? Regardless, the new 92YTribeca facility, which has been booking lots of great comedy shows (thank you, …
Via Playbill, news is good for Mike Birbiglia's Off-Broadway one-man show, Sleepwalk With Me, good enough that he'll continue telling his uncomfortable stories through March 22, 2009. So if you want to see Birbiglia, you'll know where to find him. Also, a reminder that tonight, Ira Glass joins Birbiglia for …
Some quick hits and links of comedians and comedy making news around the Internets… In Rob Corddry's interview with Defamer today, Corddry announces that he has sold a sitcom to HBO about an unlikely political candidate, and that the show, once pitched in a Bush world, has adapted to the …
Have you visited Jokes.com today? Comedy Central has revamped the site completely — had you clicked over there even only yesterday, you would have faced a drab waste of a landscape of lame jokes, submitted anonymously from years ago, from a world in which all jokes are timeless, and yet …
I have to preface this review…with two thoughts: 1) Mike Birbiglia told me tonight at his opening-night party that I need to come back and see his show again because he made changes even in the past week. And 2) Sometimes in comedy you may see a performer so many …
Mike Birbiglia has a busy afternoon and evening planned for his Friday, Oct. 17. Not only will he perform stand-up and do his first panel chat on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, but he’ll also open his Off-Broadway show, Sleepwalk With Me, which begins previews tonight at the Bleecker Street …
