The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Some clips have surfaced promoting the new animated comedy, The Life & Times of Tim, created by former ad man Steve Dildarian and debuting Sept. 28 on HBO. It’s set in New York City, and Tim, well, sounds a little bit like a calmer, low-key, perhaps easier to take Larry …
Word came in today from multiple sources in the New York comedy community, and I’m passing it along to you: Comedian Joe Powers survived a serious accident this weekend and is currently at Bellevue Hospital in stable but very serious condition in the intensive care unit. While the injuries he …
How could downtown Boston not have a regular working comedy club?* That was the question I had when the Comedy Connection closed down at the beginning of the summer (yes, it has moved to the Wilbur Theatre, but as you can see from the schedule, it’s not so much of …
Believe it or not, The Comic’s Comic is back in old-school print. Huzzah, hooray and all of that jazz! Starting today, if you’re in the New York City area, pick up a copy of the free newspaper Metro on Tuesdays to find the weekly Funny Page, brought to you by …
For your consideration. This just surfaced online. Mottleys: "Boston’s newest comedy club!" Opening next month. I shall tell you all about it soon enough!
Some of you know that I used to perform both improv and stand-up comedy. Some of you had no idea. Either way, I thought that if you’re going to come and visit and see what I have to say about the comedy world, then you might be curious to see …
Variety’s Emmy coverage looks at the acting categories and concludes, "Standups no longer rule sitcom world." They go to Charlie Sheen for comedy advice and expertise. E-gads. I’ll simply refer you back to what I wrote about the state of the standup sitcom in March.
Before I get on to documenting the past weekend’s big news in live comedy, let us all take a moment to honor Bernie Brillstein, the manager and producer who died Thursday night at the age of 77. Variety has an industry obit, and here is Nikki Finke’s take on Brillstein. …
Used to be the Sunday paper had all of the big news that everyone would be talking about on Monday and the next day, and the day after that. But apparently, no one reads newspapers anymore. And people on the Internet cannot be bothered to pay attention. Even when it …
And I don’t mean Dane Cook, although what is that rascally rascal up to, anyhow? OK. I’ve clicked there, clicked that. Now onto this weekend’s plans, and more than a few people have asked me what I have planned for the coming days, because it appears as though there are …