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I wrote the story in this week’s Time Out NY about the Comic Strip Live‘s upcoming bid to set a Guinness World Record for longest stand-up comedy show with a 50-hour marathon that begins at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 3. Quotes from Dave Attell and Judah Friedlander. Hundreds of comedians …
The folks at Just For Laughs announced the lineup for this year’s Toronto fest from July 23-27, which follows the week after Montreal and is geared more for fans than for the industry. A link has been added to my Festivals page. Galas at Massey Hall feature host Martin Short …
Another holiday weekend approaches, and regardless of how high gas prices will get by then, you still might find yourself in a different city for Memorial Day weekend, and wherever you are, you’ll definitely find yourself in need of a laugh. With that, check out my updated club listings for …
We now interrupt this comedy blog with an important message from my friend Bex Schwartz, who not only says and writes witty things for the TV and looks pretty doing so, but also, somehow, for reasons not yet explained, can sing Fergalicious backwards. So, here she is, performing…"Suoicilagref." It’s not …
Comedy Central is celebrating the upcoming fourth season (fourth season!) of Mind of Mencia with an hourlong special this Sunday for Mr. Ned Holness, aka Carlos Mencia. Here are a few preview clips the network made available of Mencia’s "orginal" and "unique" comedy stylings. The special, "Carlos Mencia: Performance Enhanced," …
Carolyn Castiglia pointed this out today, and her words of explanation are good enough for me to simply repeat them here without additional comment: "It’s a social networking site for comics. But it looks like it was made in the 80’s out of throw-up."
Couldn’t help but notice last night that Rififi, the East Village hotspot for comedy fans that survives death rumors every few months or so, looked a bit spiffier on the inside and the outside. There’s a new bright light sign so passing pedestrians can see that there’s something going on. …
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A new episode of the PBS series, America at a Crossroads, premieres tonight (May 11) with a comedic bent, "Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age." The episode focuses on five stand-ups: Ahmed Ahmed, Tissa Hami, Dean Obeidallah, Azhar Usman and Maysoon Zayid. Four clips on the site, and …
I received word yesterday that after 27 years, the Comedy Underground in Seattle has to close up shop in its current location after the show on Tuesday, May 13, for perhaps a year as the entire building gets renovated and retrofitted for seismic safety. The club reported via MySpace and …