The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Listing the best comedians on Twitter seems about as fruitless an enterprise as listing the best comedians onstage, or in a kitchen — no, wait, I suppose if we're talking about comedians cooking, that might be easier to judge — because there's no accounting for any individual's particular taste. Unless, …
Having lived in the Phoenix area for four years and spending quite a bit of time literally in the shadow of Arizona State University — the Tempe Improv is across the street from Sun Devil Stadium and ASU's athletic complex — this Daily Show report by Jason Jones hits so …
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 Trail of Tears. Shout, shout, let it all out! Upcoming shows: June 6th at UCB LA at Midnight with host Fred Willard
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 a beer vendor there, 51-year-old Steve Lazarus, who has been telling jokes on the job (and also in suburban comedy rooms in New York, New …
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! A Potentially Regrettable Evening with Comedy Writers." The lineup includes J.R Havlan (The Daily Show), Bill Scheft (Late Show with David Letterman), Anthony Jeselnik (Late …
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 Voukydis, Dan Gaba, Gabe McKinley, Sean Crespo and Carol Hartsell) set about creating a 100,000 calorie sandwich. And they filmed it as a documentary parody …
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 least one case, each other? My head explodes? No. No it does not. Instead I blog about it. The column in the Boston Globe (still in …
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 can do that? You can sit at home and stick a piece of paper with your funny one-liner into a fax machine, and somewhere in …
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 club is no different in that respect. Tommy's Comedy Lounge opens on Saturday, May 2, in the historic Charles Playhouse at 74 Warrenton St., in …
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 Twitter during live broadcasts, and now she is seeking wannabe stand-up comedians. What is this? Straight from her site to ours, and now to your …