The Definitive Guide to Comedy
You’ve seen so many comedians making it big in the 2010s via stand-up comedy, via Twitter, via YouTube, heck even via Vines and Instagrams. You’ve seen so many comedians writing books about their lives and careers. But where’s the book that’ll tell you how to make it in comedy? Joe Randazzo, …
Award-winning cartoonist Jim Benton published this six-panel strip this week, “The Joke,” that’s really more about the audience acting as pre-emptive comedy police by heckling the stand-up comedian mid-premise…but I’m interrupting your enjoyment of the strip even by writing this. So. Take a look! Of course, after Benton posted the …
All of the shows at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival begin first with a pre-recorded announcement for audience members to check in using social media, but please, to turn off or silence the cell phones as well as their heckling mouths and enjoy the show. Jimmy Carr‘s stand-up performance includes …
Well, this is going to be interesting. As interesting as finding out how and who at FX decided upon which photos of Jim Norton and Lindy West to use? Who knows… Ready or not, though, late-night TV talk shows will offer something audiences haven’t seen much of in a generation …
