New Jersey – The Comic's Comic

6th annual comedy fests in NJ: From Hoboken to Atlantic City

October 1, 2015

There are so many comedy festivals happening this weekend, this month and pretty much all the time across North America in the world now it’s tougher to track them all. But this October, there are two happening on either end of New Jersey to hype you to, especially if you’re …

Newark Mayor Cory Booker leaves New Jersey to do stand-up comedy in Philadelphia

August 23, 2013

Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, left the Garden State on Wednesday night to practice his stand-up stump speech in Philadelphia. Booker did the right things beforehand, telling his 1.4 million Twitter followers @CoryBooker, “Politicians trying 2B funny. Recipe 4 disaster?” And making a joke up …