The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In an effort that has taken over a year just to get this far, the petition to rename a block of New York City’s Morningside Heights for the late George Carlin has met with the community board’s approval and will receive a full City Council vote sometime in 2013. Community …
Jerry Seinfeld usually drops in at New York City comedy clubs in the days leading up to his appearances on Late Show with David Letterman, so he can work out the kinks of what he’ll joke about during a stand-up set or even on panel chat with Letterman. But Seinfeld …
If you haven’t yet heard, The Onion‘s corporate executives want to move the editorial staff from New York City to Chicago — where the executives already are based alongside the satirical paper’s nonfiction entertainment section, The A.V. Club. It’s a cost-cutting measure, to be sure. The Onion‘s editorial staff has …
George Carlin — who received The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor mere days before he died at the age of 71 on June 22, 2008 — grew up on West 121st Street in the Morningside Heights neighborhood on New York City’s Upper Manhattan. Comedian Kevin Bartini has been …
Friend of the site Mark Malkoff recently went online to Twitter and Facebook and told everyone that for one day, if they were in NYC, he would offer them a free cab ride. How’d he do it? By renting out a NYC taxicab, of course. Before you watch, guess how …
As you already may have heard, Team Coco is returning to New York City for four live tapings of Conan on TBS this fall. But how do you procure yourself tickets to one of these Conan NYC tapings? Well, it’s an online lottery (the system SNL also uses). With some catches. …
