The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The open mic holds everything for the new, aspiring comedian. The alpha and the omega, the dream and the nightmare, but the above all else, the primary entry point for stand-up comedy. An open mic often promises no regular audience members; instead, empty chairs up front and a gaggle of …
The estate of the late George Carlin, headed up by his daughter Kelly Carlin, has, as she told friends overnight: “We found some stuff.” Kelly Carlin previously told The Comic’s Comic about sifting through her father’s massive collection of notes and recordings for stuff that his fans might enjoy in …
Tracy Morgan sat down with Howard Stern this morning and talked about everything from and since the June 2014 New Jersey Turnpike crash that killed his friend, comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair and almost killed both Morgan and Ardie Fuqua. SiriusXM and The Howard Stern Show have put up the …
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 will be heard publicly for the first time this Friday on SiriusXM satellite radio. It’s part of a celebration of Kinison this weekend on the …
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 …
Jay Oakerson’s first TV credit was on BET. Big Jay started stand-up comedy in all-black rooms in Philadelphia, and now he’s playing to everyone while often relying on his sharp wit to riff with the crowds in the moment. He hosts an all-crowd-work series Big Jay Oakerson’s What’s Your F@#king …
You can hear my next guest, Dan Soder, at night and sometimes in the morning on SiriusXM satellite radio. He co-hosts The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson Monday and Wednesday nights on Comedy Central Radio, and often sits in as the third mic in the morning on Opie with Jim …
This April Fool’s Day, spend the afternoon listening to the late great Bill Hicks telling us all what fools we were, and still are. SiriusXM will be the first to premiere the uncut version of Hicks’ influential album Rant In E- Minor on SiriusXM’s Comedy Greats channel, preceded by the …
Jack Vaughn launched Comedy Central Records in 2002 thanks to his love of Mitch Hedberg and other unappreciated comedians of the time, and won four Best Comedy Album Grammys with them. A decade later, he moved to Hollywood and joined Comedy Dynamics and New Wave, where Vaughn executive produced and helped …
The “check spot” at a comedy club often presents a catch-22 for hungry stand-up comedians: You get a chance to perform for the big crowd, but it’s happening right before the headliner (or sometimes during the headliner’s set) and coincides with the servers dropping off the bills so your audience …
