The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s Mike Birbiglia’s birthday today. Happy birthday, Birbigs! It’s also the final weekend for his successful one-man show, Mike Birbiglia’s My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, enjoying an off-Broadway run at the Barrow Street Theatre. Here’s ticket info for the final weekend of shows June 24-25, 2011. Birbigs won the Lucille Lortel Award …
Andrea Rosen's current show at the UCB Theatre, "Ding Dong Meow," really should be called "Ding Dong Meow (Cookie!)" It's neither one-woman show nor performance art piece, but rather a showcase for Rosen's variety of talents as a comedian. Want to hear her stand-up comedy about true and often embarrassing …
J.D. Durkin is not unlike many young people who love Stephen Colbert and what he's doing on Comedy Central with The Colbert Report. Well, except for the fact that Durkin has put his love into the form of a live job application called "Stephen Colbert: Hire Me," which he is …
Tickets have gone on sale for Mike Birbiglia's next off-Broadway production, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend. Here's the official blurb: In Mike Birbiglia‚Äôs My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, Mike shares a lifetime of romantic blunders and miscues that most adults would spend a lifetime trying to forget. On this painfully honest journey, Birbiglia struggles …
If Kathy Griffin were performing eight nights at Carolines on Broadway, it'd be considered just another week in the life of a comedy club. Even though Carolines is on Broadway. But move Griffin a few blocks south and another block east, and suddenly, it's "Kathy Griffin Wants A Tony," a …
Craig Rowin went on YouTube a couple of months ago and asked for someone to give him $1 million. Rowin then boasted that someone had stepped forward to present him with the money, and put on a live show last night at the UCB Theatre in New York City, complete …
If all you know about Mike DeStefano is what you saw of the comedian last summer on NBC's Last Comic Standing, then welcome to this site, because you must not have been here before. So here: Read my interview with DeStefano from last year, in which he talks about his …
HBO has set a date for the new version of Pee-wee Herman's show, straight from Broadway to your TV. The new and improved Pee-wee Herman on Broadway will debut on March 19, 2011. Roll the clip! And if you're too young to remember the 1970s, then brace yourselves, because …
If you're on Twitter and enjoy reading funny things, then odds are strong that you likely already know and follow the quick-hit offerings of Rob Delaney @robdelaney. If you read The Comic's Comic, then the house won't even take your odds, because I've mentioned his ribald brilliance on the Tweets multiple …
Nicole Shabtai is going to move to Los Angeles and become famous. I'm not a prophet. Shabtai sent out an email saying she was moving. And if you've seen "Citizen Rothstein," her one-woman show — or any of her appearances in videos for LandlineTV — then you could arrive at …