Episode #251: Yakov Smirnoff
by Yakov Smirnoff got his big break in America thanks to Mitzi Shore, who not only put up the Soviet immigrant in her home behind The …
Tag: Sam Kinison
Episode #172: Jimmy Shubert
Jimmy Shubert was just a kid from Philly who wanted to be a magician. That’s how he started in show business, before moving to Los …
SiriusXM to broadcast rare final recording of the late Sam Kinison
A rare recording from one of Sam Kinison‘s final stand-up performances, just days before his death at 38 in a 1992 highway crash, has been enhanced and …
Steve Martin reflects on stand-up comedy now versus the 1970s, and great opening lines
Steve Martin remains a great showman after all these years, and whether you want to nitpick about whether he has or hasn’t performed stand-up in …
Episode #65: Jackie Kashian
Jackie Kashian is one of my favorite stand-up comedians to watch live because she knows who she is and makes no apologies for it. That’s …
Last Things First, Episode #4: Ralphie May and Lahna Turner
I met Ralphie May at the Tempe Improv, shortly before all of you saw him competing in the inaugural season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing …
Emile Hirsch to star as John Belushi in big-screen biopic
Emile Hirsch has been tapped to star as the late John Belushi in a planned biopic on the comedian who became a star as an …
Josh Gad to play Sam Kinison in big-screen biopic
After a few years of trying to make an HBO movie happen about the late Sam Kinison with Dan Fogler in the lead role, it …
Sing in the holidays with “Carol of the Comedians”
New York City-based comedy rock band Fortress of Attitude is halfway through a “12 Christmas Songs in 12 Days of Christmas” project called “Bigger Than …