The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Bonnaroo announced its comedy lineup for the 2009 music festival in Tennessee, and this year, it's getting some corporate help from Butterfinger, which is sponsoring "The Comedy Sweet." Get it? Anyrockytops. The lineup includes: Jimmy FallonTriumph the Insult Comic Dog Presents Bonnapoo 2009An Evening (or Afternoon) with The Daily Show …
After a two-year hiatus, the Comic Strip Live is bringing back the Lottery hat that allows just about anyone to have his or her shot at making the rite of passage and become a regular stand-up comedian at the club on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Here are the details: Anyone …
The Laugh Factory sure knows how to generate publicity. This report appeared last night on Access Hollywood, about Tom Arnold hosting free Thursday night comedy shows for the unemployed masses as a pick-me-up during the recession. Although, as Arnold notes: Two drink minimum! Here's the small print from the club's …
Aside from the Comic Relief specials of years past, it's not often that you would have the chance to see an all-star Murderer's Row lineup of comedians live in one night's showcase. There are nights, though, when maybe if you could see into the future, you would have known that …
NYC-based stand-up comedian Matt Ruby, writer of comedy blog Sandpaper Suit, just got back from a weekend in Austin performing at SXSW. While all of the trendy people were Tweeting about it with a #sxsw here and a #sxsw there, Ruby went 2007 old-school and made his own mini-doc on …
I think we all can remember a time in our lives when we not only watched professional rassling on the TV, but also maybe felt compelled to attend an event live in person or re-enact the moves with our friends in junior high school. But what if we embraced the …
Oh, Starz, the forgotten child of the pay-cable premium movie networks. Everyone knows and many people enjoy watching HBO (and in doing so, also get the guilty pleasures of Cinemax), and in recent years, Showtime has upped its game and made it worth subscribing to for its original programming (which …
A disco-dancing mermaid. Kim Kardashian. An Eastern European who wants to join the Pussycat Dolls. Victoria "Posh" Beckham. Macy Gray. These are a few of Alicia Levy's favorite characters to play in her delightful half-hour "Red Carpet Ride," playing Thursdays this month at The PIT (People's Improv Theater). Levy displays …
This week's installment of "In other news…" examines a few mainstream media stories over the past week that took the time to cover comedy, but could have spent just a bit more time asking questions before going into print. Or, as the recently departed radio broadcaster Paul Harvey would say, …
If you read The Comic's Comic, then you may also listen to The Best Show on WFMU, Tom Scharpling's Tuesday night radio talk/comedy/music spectacular. Tonight from 8-11 p.m. EDT, Scharpling's show coincides with the radio station's fund-raising efforts, and Scharpling will welcome Paul F. Tompkins, John Hodgman, Ted Leo, Aimee …