The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! STEVE AGEE: UHHH (episode 37) Ever got drunk …
Jimmy Fallon has taken over The Tonight Show this week. What better time to reminisce about Johnny Carson, right? Right. Welcome to “The Carson Podcast,” hosted by Mark Malkoff. Malkoff made his mark online over the past several years by doing things you didn’t dare dream — living in an …
What difference does a year make? Alonzo Bodden headlines this weekend at Carolines on Broadway to open 2014, just as he had 2013. Later this year, he’ll be recurring in the final season of Showtime’s Californication. When I met Bodden near Times Square almost a year ago, that gig hadn’t …
Dave Shumka is a stand-up comedian in Vancouver, British Columbia, who hosts the podcast, Stop Podcasting Yourself. On the Fourth of July, a random assailant almost stopped Shumka dead in his tracks altogether, shooting at him from point-blank range. As Shumka described the impromptu fireworks at his head in a …
“Are you good?” Marc Maron asks the question sincerely after I enter his hotel room in Midtown Manhattan, catching the comedian amid a day full of back-to-back phone interviews with the media. Not “Are we good?” nor the colloquial “We good?” that has become a commonplace catch-all catchphrase of sorts …
Is the world ready for Mel Brooks to join the Twitter conversation? Ready or not, here comes @MelBrooks later today in an event coordinated for Comedy Central’s first-ever online #ComedyFest — that starts today and continues through May 3, 2013 — with the 2,000(minus 1,914)-year-old comedian in conversation with Carl …
At Daytona International Speedway this weekend, the mainstream media is all about Danica Patrick and her bid to win the Daytona 500. But there’s another race to be won tonight. After the Camping World Truck Series event ends, the man who waves the green flag — comedian Jon Reep — …
The most recent episode of the PBS Off Book webseries, “What’s the deal with Internet Comedy?” invited three comedians to discuss three facets of comedy that reaches you over the series of tubes we call Internet. You are using them now. Good job. Jon Friedman talks Twitter, and how the …
Good news for friends, loved ones and fans of comedian/actor Larry Miller. Miller returned to the podcast booth yesterday. The 59-year-old had fallen backward while holding open a door on April 4, 21012, and hit his head, sending Miller into a coma and life support. “He was hovering between life …
