The Definitive Guide to Comedy
So who received invites to the televised comedy competition that is Last Comic Standing in 2014? Here are your Top 100 who auditioned for Season 8 of Last Comic. The season premieres Thursday on NBC. Not listed in order of finish or preference. Not yet, anyhow. How many of these …
Dave Attell gives back to some of his fellow comedy veterans, and in a very real way has given back to military veterans and their families, through filming his new stand-up showcase series, Comedy Underground with Dave Attell, which debuts at 1 a.m. Sunday on Comedy Central following the premiere of …
If you were to ask me at the start of the 2008 New York’s Funniest Stand-Up contest, who I thought would win, well, someone did, and before I could say "John Mulaney" (whoops, he’s not even in the contest? wait, what? oh, right, Mulaney is headlining at the Punchline in …
One of my newspaper alma maters, the New York Daily News, devoted much of its Sunday features section to comedy, thanks in part to this week’s New York Comedy Festival, but also to how much comedy has impacted politics this campaign season. There’s a story from Caroline Waxler about how …
There was a tie! We don’t know what that means, other than the fact that six more stand-up comedians made it into the finals of the 2008 New York’s Funniest Stand-Up contest, instead of five, and they are: D.C. Benny, Geno Bisconte, Hailey Boyle, Jordan Carlos, Myq Kaplan and Mike …
Mike Vecchione has taught in the schools and survived to tell about it, in jokes and such. He was on Live at Gotham over the weekend, and something tells me you’ll be seeing more of him in other places soon enough…he gets an applause break on his opening routine on …
