The Friars Club celebrated in PBS “Treasures of New York”
Enjoy this Throwback Thursday with a look back across a century of laughs and comedian-on-comedian...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | May 21, 2015 | Reviews, TV, Uncategorized | 0 |
Enjoy this Throwback Thursday with a look back across a century of laughs and comedian-on-comedian...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Mar 23, 2009 | Uncategorized | 0 |
The current print issue of New York magazine asked a bunch of insidery insiders in the show bidness to name their favorite funny people who have yet to make it big but coulda woulda shoulda someday, particularly if magazines...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Nov 6, 2008 | Uncategorized | 3 |
If you were to ask me at the start of the 2008 New York’s Funniest Stand-Up contest, who I thought would win, well, someone did, and before I could say "John Mulaney" (whoops, he’s not even in the contest?...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Nov 3, 2008 | Uncategorized | 0 |
One of my newspaper alma maters, the New York Daily News, devoted much of its Sunday features section to comedy, thanks in part to this week’s New York Comedy Festival, but also to how much comedy has impacted politics...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Oct 29, 2008 | Uncategorized | 0 |
A reliable source informed me that these are your first five comedians advancing to the finals of the 2008 New York’s Funniest Stand-Up contest: Nate Bargatze, Esther Ku, Julian McCullough, Stone & Stone, Reese Waters...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Oct 13, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 |
While you wait to see if I’ll break down and break down the funniest reporter contest, let me first get you up to speed on the New York City Underground Comedy Festival’s "Emerging Comics Contest," in which...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | May 22, 2008 | Uncategorized | 0 |
In case you haven’t been following the Internets, ABC News recently struck up a partnership with its Times Square neighbor, Carolines, for a weekly interview/performance segment called Carolines on GMA Now. Club owner...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Apr 13, 2008 | 0 |
Reese Waters, who won the Carolines March Comedy Madness competition earlier this month, gets part of his prize last week with an interview on Good Morning America NOW (read: online) courtesy of Lee Woodruff (wife of Bob and...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Apr 3, 2008 | Uncategorized | 0 |
Carolines closed out its second annual March Comedy Madness on Tuesday night with two very intriguing Final Four matchups. One half of the bracket pitted boyfriend against girlfriend, while the other half could best be described...
Read Moreby Sean L. McCarthy | Apr 1, 2008 | Uncategorized | 0 |
Carolines plays host tonight to the Final Four in its 2008 edition of March Comedy Madness, in which 64 comedians compete but only one wins. Last year’s winner: Julian McCullough. Last year’s runner-up, Rob...
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