Deadline to earn a performance at the 2013 Montreux Comedy Festival via Dailymotion
by Time is running out if you’re a stand-up comedian who’d like to win a trip to Switzerland this December to perform in the 2013 Montreux …
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Samuel J. Comroe wins 2013 San Francisco Comedy Competition
A year after winning a late-night TV credit contest, Samuel J. Comroe has won a slightly bigger and older, if not also more prestigious prize, …
R.I.P. Monty Hoffman (1952-2013)
Monty Hoffman, one of the funny people gathered for a roundtable pep talk about comedy with Adam Sandler’s fictional alter-ego in Judd Apatow’s Funny People, …
Reader’s Digest is searching for the next great cartoonist
Hey, kids! And by kids, I mean comedy fans who are between the ages of 14-23 and have a knack for drawing funny things! Reader’s …
Are these the “10 People You Meet In Every Improv Class”?
Dan Hopper at CollegeHumor posted an amusing look at some of the clowns you may run into should you take a class in improv comedy. …
Mike Lawrence’s keynote speech at The 2nd Creek Awards: “The Five Most Important Things I’ve Learned Doing Comedy In New York That I’d Pass On To Newer Comics”
Mike Lawrence delivered a sincerely stirring speech on Saturday night at the second annual Creek Awards, held to celebrate the 11th anniversary of The Creek …
Hey Hartford, hey America, hey world! Pipe down and let Dave Chappelle do his thing!
This is why we cannot have nice things? If you love Dave Chappelle and you miss seeing him on your TV and in your life, …
72 Hours with Marc Maron, Matt Braunger and Brendon Walsh at the Vancouver Comedy Festival: A photo essay by Leigh Righton
“Marc Maron, Brendon Walsh and Matt Braunger all performed at the Festival, and I had the opportunity to follow and photograph them over the course …
2013 Shortlist for Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards: Short on Yanks
We know we’re in the final days and nights of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe when the awards shortlist is released, and that just happened today. …
Stand-Up Comedy, the Bible, and the 10,000-Hour Rule
By Caleb Synan Good comedians do stand-up every night. Sometimes a wedding, a broken-down car, or some other emergency can get in the way of …