The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
How Henry Phillips became a comedy troubadour is as interesting a story as whether or not he is one or what that even means. In fact, Phillips now has made two movies poking fun at his life and career, Punching The Clown, which won the 2009 audience award at Slamdance, and …
Marie Cecile Anderson and Katy Frame say their musical duo is the love child of Tenacious D and Dolly Parton, but Reformed Whores is an even catchier way to describe them. It’s also the name of their band. They’re from the South, but met in New York City and in …
Drennon Davis and Karen Kilgariff returned to Conan on Monday night to perform another song off of their EP, “I Don’t Care, I Like It.” And this song takes a moment to build toward its fun reveal. Although since you read the headline, perhaps you already know where it’s going. …
Today’s guest, Wayne Federman, has been recording stand-up comedy sets in clubs across America for more than 30 years now since starting out in New York City in the early 1980s. He’s also a classically trained actor, studying in college straight from Stella Adler. No wonder, then, he has so …
Photo of Zach Sherwin by Mindy Tucker People were going Hollywood long before Bing Crosby starred in the 1933 film musical Going Hollywood. Certainly, though, countless unknowns have packed their bags and moved to Los Angeles in the years and decades since then, hoping for show business to discover them …
Reggie Watts and I go all the way back to the very beginnings of The Comic’s Comic and even before that. I had moved out of Seattle by the time Watts emerged on the scene there as a show-stopping force, not only as singer and frontman for the band Maktub …
Your song of the summer now just got funnier. IFC and CollegeHumor are collaborating for an hour-long special on June 19 — CollegeHumor’s Comedy Music Hall of Fame, hosted by Paul F. Tompkins. Tompkins will guide us through the high and low notes of musical comedy, plus partake in interviews …
When their IFC sketch series ended after five seasons, The Whitest Kids U’Know mostly went their separate ways, although they reunited for a tour in 2013 and tried filming a pilot last year. Timmy Williams got married and moved back to South Dakota. Zach Cregger went the primetime sitcom route …
IFC officially has Garfunkel and Oates on its TV schedule now, with the premiere of the eight-episode first season debuting at 10 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. The semi-autobiographical sitcom follows the exploits of Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci as they go Hollywood and try to find fame, fortune and …
