The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Not since Sacha Baron Cohen strutted around the beach in his suspender-speedo have we seen the likes of this. Funny people swapping suits. Bathing suits. So. Who wore it better this weekend in Malibu…(photos via PopSugar) Jenny McCarthy? Or Jim Carrey?
On the Fourth of July, most comedy clubs across the United States went dark, figuring customers more likely would stay outside to barbecue and watch the colorful kablooie of fireworks tonight. Here is the view from my rooftop in Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill of the start of the 2008 Macy’s fireworks …
The People’s Republic of Komedy brought an independent, DIY attitude to the Seattle comedy scene — before their arrival a few years ago, comedians in Washington state had to deal with either the mainstream clubs or one-nighters in a rotating series of bars around the Seattle area that would give …
On Saturday, the Drink at Work crew held its second annual summer gathering down by The Pier I Cafe on the Hudson River at West 70th Street. Queen may have established that thunder bolts and lightning are very very frightening, whee, Galileo, Galileo, but the party was still magnifico. Even …
A car crashed through the front window of the io West Theater in Los Angeles Thursday afternoon (image via Defamer) at about 4 p.m. Pacific time. The theater notes that no one was injured, although the "damage to the exterior and interior of the building is extensive and means that …
Via my friends at Shecky magazine comes word that many of the old-timey (and by old-timey, I mean older than me) Seattle comedians got together for a good ol’ barbecue picnic, and Alysia Wood filed a report on the matter with her own reflections on how these comics helped her …
This little item in Publishers Marketplace might pique your interest… FICTION: SCI-FI/FANTASY Bob Powers and Ritch Duncan’s LIVING WITH LYCANTHROPY: A Lifestyle Guide for the Modern Werewolf, which provides newly infected werewolves with a workable road map for living an ethical, fulfilling, and near-violence free life through chapters such as …
It’s true. After three decades on the Upper East Side, the Comic Strip Live is opening up…a second club…on the Upper West Side. The new location, 158 W. 72nd St., is between Broadway and Columbus. Formerly known as The Triad. Soft opening tonight. Want to look at part of a …
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A full 25 years after Strange Brew, Canada has welcomed (and FOX has gotten in on) an animated TV version of Bob and Doug McKenzie, the characters created by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis originally for SCTV. So, a second chance for these Second City characters, eh? Eh! Thomas and …