A Year After Aurora: Recovery continues for Caleb Medley
by Hugo Medley turns one year old today. That’s hardly big news in baby news globally — certainly the possible future King of England’s birth and …
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Meet Montreal’s Just For Laughs New Faces, Class of 2013
Congrats to the new class of New Faces for Montreal’s Just For Laughs, showcased for the comedy industry this week. I’ll file full reports from …
Jim Gaffigan’s reaction to Dunkin Donuts realizing his idea for a glazed doughnut breakfast sandwich
Jim Gaffigan has recorded jokes about Dunkin Donuts on both his “Beyond the Pale” and “King Baby” specials. One such joke, made in the opening …
Win a pass to the 2013 Just For Laughs Comedy Conference in Montreal!
Festival Juste Pour Rire — the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival — begins anew today and runs through the end of the month, with much …
RIP Bernard “Bernie” Sahlins, The Second City’s co-founder (1922-2013)
“The TBS Just For Laughs Chicago festival wrapped up its fifth annual celebration of comedy in “the second city” over the weekend, but there probably …
RIP Rahn Ramey
Rahn Ramey, a stand-up comedian who worked the road and survived the comedy boom of the late 1980s, died on June 9 following a three-year …
Dave Chappelle, Flight of the Conchords to headline Funny or Die Oddball tour this summer
You’ve been waiting for another Flight of the Conchords tour for years. You’ve been waiting for a legitimate Dave Chappelle stand-up tour for years, too. …
Read Patton Oswalt’s “Closed Letter to Myself About Thievery, Heckling and Rape Jokes”
Patton Oswalt wrote “a closed letter” to himself yesterday on the Internet, which means we all can read it, hopefully identify with at least part …
Tenacious D announces lineup for inaugural Festival Supreme
Mark Oct. 19, 2013, on your calendars for the first-ever Festival Supreme, a full-day of comedy and music put on by Tenacious D’s Jack Black …
Doug Stanhope raises $100,000 for atheist survivor of Oklahoma tornado
Earlier this week, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Oklahoma tornado survivor Rebecca Vitsum if she “thanked the Lord” for living through the storm. Vitsum is an …