The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Just a day after Richard Belzer died, we learned that Rick Newman also has left us. Newman, the founding owner of Catch A Rising Star and former manager of Pat Benatar, died at the age of 81. A year ago, when Rick and his wife were deep in health problems …
R.I.P. Richard Belzer. My thoughts on Belz, a new radio tribute on the four-year anniversary of the death of Brody Stevens, festival submission information for both JFL New Faces (!) and the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, plus all of the past week’s comedy news, new stand-up specials, late-night appearances and …
I’m not sure what the Intelligent Channel is on YouTube or why this exists, but I’m glad it exists. Richard Belzer sat down with Gilbert Gottfried for 20 minutes and talked to him about his jokes — including the Japanese tsunami jokes that got him fired from his Aflac gig, …
It’d been a long day for both of us. Richard Belzer had spent his Thursday promoting his new book, a novel based on his own personal and professional lives, while I had been running around putting out figurative fires, so we only had a few minutes to speak. I wanted …
