The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedians in New York City have a way of turning their offstage obsessions into onstage talk shows. Just check out the Comic Book Club on Tuesday nights at The PIT for a weekly meeting of the minds among comedians Justin Tyler, Pete LePage, and Alex Zalben learning more from professional …
Carolines comedy club in Times Square has started 2009 with quite an all-star, fund-raising bang. Please mark your calendars thusly: Louis CK performs a full 70-minute set tonight, with Ted Alexandro opening, in a special performance to raise money for P.S. 3, the elementary school his daughters attend. Info here. …
This clip arrived in my inbox earlier this week, and I can safely say that this shows a different side of Bonnie Hunt than I think we've seen from her in quite some time. Buttoned-up she is not today. On her daytime talker today, you'll get to see Hunt "audition" …
Sadly, this has become true in more ways than one, as it's almost 100 percent likely that live comedy (and music) shows will come to an end in the back lounge of Sound Fix Records at the end of February. There is a sign taped to the door of the …
Today is the day for Comedy Central to broadcast a marathon of Comedy Central Presents half-hours (and in one comedian's case, an hourlong special) for the top 20 finishers in its annual Stand-Up Showdown vote. If you'd like to be surprised, stop reading now and come back later…because they have …
Voting ends today to help determine the outcomes of two national online contests, although I'm about to tell you how one is more important than the other. I previously have described how the New York City comedians from Front Page Films had one of the final five Cylons, er, no, …
In just the past 24 hours, we've seen the nominations revealed for the Academy Awards and what the academy deemed the best film work of 2008, and also the Golden Raspberry Awards, with fans determining the worst cinema dreck from last year. While you typically see unfunny comedies make the …
Congratulations are in order for the folks at Ars Nova, the New York City theater and production company that made its first foray into feature films with the blaxploitation spoof, Black Dynamite, got it into Sundance and earlier this week sold the distribution rights to Sony Pictures for about $2 …
If you're still stumped trying to figure out if you know any and/or all of the New York City comedians depicted in cartoon form in MAD magazine, then Ken Pringle at Chucklemonkey has your answers, including what appears to be the photos used by artist Rick Tulka. How many did …
About halfway through Brian Scolaro's Comedy Central Presents, the comedian announces he'll now tell some random jokes. That's not the only thing random about his half-hour special. For his backdrop, Scolaro went with a funeral motif, complete with coffin. Odd. Doesn't really even mention it at all, though he does …