The Definitive Guide to Comedy
On Friday, Gabriel Iglesias became only the 10th stand-up comedian to ever play the full arena at New York City’s Madison Square Garden as a solo headliner. Iglesias put that feat into perspective in a brief note to fans. As comedians we have a list of goals in our career. -Make …
Move over Childish Gambino and Eddie Murphy, there’s a new gal in town who’s ready to make with the funny and the music both in a summer concert tour, as Anjelah Johnson is ready to perform 14 dates across the South and West this July as her character Bon Qui …
This essay originally appeared on Ron Babcock’s website and is reprinted here by his request and with his permission. A LONG BUT BY NO MEANS DEFINITIVE “HOW TO GUIDE” FOR DOING YOUR OWN DIY STANDUP TOUR Hello, my name is Ron Babcock and I’m a comic in LA. Last year …
Jim Gaffigan wanted to make an important announcement today about chili, so let’s hear it for Jim! OK, so maybe it was about more than just a good bowl of chili. Turns out Gaffigan — who’s currently in production on the first season of The Jim Gaffigan Show for a …
Americans who live west of the Mississippi River will get a chance to see global comedian Eddie Izzard this spring and summer as Izzard’s “Force Majeure World Tour” returns to the U.S. for a run of theater dates from May 19 through July 1, 2015. Among the gigs is a …
And Fluffy makes 10. Madison Square Garden announced today that Gabriel Iglesias will perform in New York City’s midtown Manhattan arena on April 17, 2015. Tickets go on sale this Friday, Feb. 6. “Fluffy” already is on an arena tour this week and through the winter/spring. But MSG still has …
Amy Schumer went off on a bit of a rant toward the end of her appearance this month on Brian Koppelman’s Grantland podcast, “The Moment.” They’d finished talking about comedy strikes of the past and recent past, and Koppleman wanted to ask Schumer about the third season of her Comedy …
You’re not mistaken for forgetting that you may have seen Dave Gorman in the United States before. Gorman has brought two of his one-man shows here before, both off-Broadway and to the old HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in 2001 and 2004. A couple of years later, he …
Five years ago, performance artist Marina Abramović sat and received many visitors for brief face-to-face sessions at MoMA, documented and captured in a subsequent HBO documentary about her. Last night, Reggie Watts began his own face-to-face experience with visitors to NYC’s Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar …
This just in: Louis CK has announced he’s playing arenas to kick off 2015, with one-night-only dates scheduled for Jan. 7, 2015, at Madison Square Garden, and Jan. 11, 2015, at the Forum in Los Angeles. The Emmy-winning stand-up comedian and star of his own FX sitcom, Louie, also announced …
