Following comedians on Twitter
by Listing the best comedians on Twitter seems about as fruitless an enterprise as listing the best comedians onstage, or in a kitchen — no, wait, …
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Daily Show visits Arizona State University, “The Harvard of date rape”
Having lived in the Phoenix area for four years and spending quite a bit of time literally in the shadow of Arizona State University — …
Travel TV: Tears For Fears on the Trail of Tears
Thank the UCB Midnight Show in Los Angeles for conjuring up this Travel Channel parody, in which 1980s Britpop sensation Tears For Fears walks the …
Does a comedian need to have an out-of-left-field hook to get profiled by the New York Times?
You'd seem to think so, as this story in Sunday's New York Times literally goes to the left-field seats at new Yankee Stadium to interview …
Comedy writers speak, perform in D.C.
In advance of this weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner, the WGA East has put together a performance/panel session tonight at the Newseum, called "Writers Speak! …
Shark at Work’s 100,000 Calorie Sandwich
Are you hungry? Are you sitting down? Do you have eyeballs? File this under, gross but true. The Shark at Work team (Nick Stevens, Ari …
When comedians joke about their relationships
What happens when a reporter I know writes a first-person column about comedians I know talking about making jokes about their ex-girlfriends, and in at …
Inside the mysterious world of freelance TV show joke writers
Years ago, I remember the first time I ever heard someone randomly say that they wrote jokes for The Tonight Show, and thought, really? You …
New club in Boston: Tommy’s Comedy Lounge
The Boston comedy scene continues to evolve in an everything that's old is new again sort of way, and the news of Boston's newest comedy …
Who needs Last Comic Standing when we have Oprah?
We don't know what is happening in Oprah's world, but something is awry. Over the past month or so, Oprah has tried learning Facebook and …