The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tim Minchin arrived at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University some 22 years ago to study music. Minchin returned last week to receive an honorary degree, and with it, deliver this speech. A trusty nugget from his three pieces of advice: You have to be …
“Listen, I don’t care how this goes tonight, because tomorrow it’s going to say Muslim Bombs or Muslim Kills. It’s bad for me, either way.” That was Aasif Mandvi, speaking at the Congressional Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend in Washington, D.C. Mandvi, 49, was born in India, grew up …
Andy Kindler once again had a full house in the fourth-floor banquet/conference room of the Hyatt Regency Montreal at his full attention on Friday for his annual State of the Industry Address for the Just For Laughs festival. While Kindler did go back to his tried-and-true well of hated comedy …
The years since Stephen Colbert shocked the White House Correspondents Dinner — and then sitting President George W. Bush — have seen the so-called “nerd prom” (how are they nerds and how is this a prom, exactly?) veer every which way but loose in a systematically reactive process in trying …
