The Definitive Guide to Comedy
No extensions for voting in the YouTube Sketchies 2 contest, as today is your last chance to decide which of 10 finalists vying for $25,000 cash, $15,000 worth of production equipment and a meeting with UTA agents. The top 10 all had to incorporate a theme of "living the dream" …
Happy accident or funny coincidence? After filing my 2007 income taxes, I peered into my mailbox and to what did my wondering eyes appear but my first official commission check from sales you kind readers have purchased via The Comic’s Comic. Thank you for that. And it dawned on me. …
While we wait to see if and when NBC puts the SNL sketch featuring Casey Wilson’s paralyzed stripper, Dusty Velvet, on the Internets, here is a similar sketch from the Groundlings, circa 2006, written and performed by Beth Crosby. Crosby’s stripper does have use of her arms, however, whereas Wilson’s …
Mortified returned to New York City for another production at Comix on Monday night, in which real people share stories and written personal documents from their formative, and always mortifying, adolescence — the premise being, that years later, those journals, diary entries, artistic endeavors and everything else can be looked …
CBS trots out Secret Talents of the Stars tonight (10 p.m. Eastern), with the aforementioned stars pitted against each other in brackets. Clint Black takes on Sasha Cohen in comedy. No, not Sacha Baron Cohen, but rather, the figure skater. And her "secret talent" is a contortionist routine. Alrighty then. …
Billy Gardell is so much of a Billy and not just a Bill (or a Will or a William) that in each of his previous three co-starring roles on primetime television (My Name Is Earl, Heist, and Yes, Dear), even his character’s name has been Billy. Gardell has been a …
As my friends at Best Week Ever would say, in case you missed it, Ben Bailey and his Discovery Channel "Cash Cab" got an extra special promotional push this week on NBC’s Today show. Meredith and Ann took on Matt and Al. And if Ben Bailey thought he got recognized …
If you’re reading this, then 1) you’re a fan of live comedy, and 2) you could be going out to a live comedy show tonight! So why don’t you? New Yorkers can check out my Google calendar on this page for a list of guaranteed fun times. For fans of …
Ben Kharakh has a new interview with Andy Kindler that has a transcript so long that Starpulse broke it up into two parts. No. Really. Read part one here. Read part two here.
Some of my friends and colleagues in the world of comedy can be found linked from this site under the heading, "More on Comedy." Let’s see what they’ve been up to recently! Brooklyn Vegan threw its second Rock n ROFL party last night. Pictures here!My friend Carl Arnheiter has another …