Sightings: Ardie Fuqua says hi to old friends at The Comedy Cellar
by Such a blessing and a treat even just to see photographs of Ardie Fuqua alive and smiling again, almost 13 months after a fatal crash …
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Just For Laughs: Dana Gould to deliver 2015 Keynote Address
Dana Gould will deliver the 2015 Just For Laughs Keynote Address at ComedyPRO in Montreal this July, presented by Comedy Dynamics. Gould’s address already has a …
“The Joke,” a cartoon by Jim Benton
Award-winning cartoonist Jim Benton published this six-panel strip this week, “The Joke,” that’s really more about the audience acting as pre-emptive comedy police by heckling …
R.I.P. Phil Austin, Firesign Theatre’s “Nick Danger”
Phil Austin, writer/comedian, founding member of Firesign Theatre and creator of the character, “Nick Danger,” has died. Austin was 74. This obituary was provided by …
Things That are More Likely to Ruin Stand-Up Comedy Than “Political Correctness”
By Will Weldon 1. Popular Youtube acts with no live performance experience getting booked on big shows 2. The marginalization of not-white performers into “specialty …
John Cleese and Eric Idle touring North America as a duo in Fall 2015
Monty Python may have bid us all a fond farewell last summer, but that doesn’t mean we cannot have nice things from the old boys …
Walmart settles out of court with Tracy Morgan, Ardie Fuqua and Jeffrey Millea
Just shy of the one-year anniversary of the fatal wreck on the New Jersey Turnpike that killed comedian “Jimmy Mack” and critically wounded Tracy Morgan, …
Here’s the lineup, schedule for the 17th annual Del Close Marathon #DCM17
Set your countdown clocks: The 17th Annual Del Close Marathon is a little more than a month away — now serving up improvised comedy from …
Michigan comedy booker’s open letter to stand-up comics
Jason Frey, the Michigan comedian who ran multiple stand-up comedy booking companies under fake names until a Detroit TV station caught up with him in …
R.I.P. “The Riv,” The Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas, Nevada
by The Riviera Comedy Club died tonight* after fighting a lengthy battle with economics. The club is survived by hundreds of mourning comics: Some great, some hacks, some …