The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A lone gunman approached an audience member on the patio outside The Comedy Store early Wednesday morning, shooting and killing him before running away across the Sunset Strip and south down Olive Drive. Nobody else was injured, although several comedians …
The Comedy Store’s lineup for Thursday night included a 15-minute window for a “Special Guest.” Turns out that guest may have been a very special two-fer — if you believed other websites this morning — as Arsenio Hall took the …
Louis CK sent out a sincerely funny email on Monday to his fans, letting them know that the blizzard named Juno had forced him to prematurely cancel his fourth and final planned performance tonight at Madison Square Garden. He wrote …
Louis CK already has his next stand-up special in the can as he continues to take victory laps around Madison Square Garden, adding a fourth show for next week. As he wrote to fans, “I mean, if you keep buying …
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 …
Taylor Negron — stand-up comedian, actor, painter, poet and muse — died Saturday from cancer. Negron was 57. Born Brad Stephen Negron on Aug. 1, 1957, in Glendale, Calif., young Taylor already was performing stand-up comedy and appearing in episodes …
Jerrod Carmichael told me back in May that filming his first stand-up hour would be special to him, not only because Spike Lee would direct him but also because the location, The Comedy Store, was sentimental to him. Where Carmichael …
Last week saw fundamental changes at comedy clubs in both New York City and Los Angeles. In the Big Apple, Al Martin sold off his longstanding stake in New York Comedy Club (it now redirects to EmpireTonight.com for the time …
Inside San Francisco’s Cobb’s Comedy Club, Dean Delray is preparing for a sold-out Friday night show. I am led to his dressing room, where he anxiously greets me at the door. He stands about 5’ 6” with slicked hair and …
In the early morning hours of July 2, 2014, the proceedings outside The Comedy Store on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip suddenly became more of a battleground than the Roast Battle happening inside it. Cops with a shotgun drawn. Another night @thecomedystore …
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