The Definitive Guide to Comedy
This is the list the show business industry and the comedy community has been waiting a full year for…Montreal’s Just For Laughs New Faces for 2012! These are the up-and-comers plucked from New York City, Los Angeles and points in between to be given the biggest spotlight they’ve ever had, …
David Crowe has been a stand-up stalwart in Seattle for two decades, and now he’s ready to help his fellow touring comedians cash in on another way to make audiences laugh — their very own greeting-card line. Called “Frank & Funny,” Crowe launched the line with Seattle-based Compendium, Inc., last …
Is New York City big enough for two sketch comedy festivals? The question is moot. At least in 2012. As , The People’s Improv Theatre is filling that void, announcing this week that it’s launching its own fest — the New York City Sketch Festival, running Oct. 11-14, 2012, at …
The improv groundhog saw Del Close’s shadow, which means, somehow, someway, we’re experiencing the Del Close Marathon six weeks early this year! That’s one of the new new things to make DCM14 different from its 13 predecessors. For one thing, DCM14 is bigger than ever! The improv comedy marathon has …
The nominations came out this afternoon for the 2012 Canadian Comedy Awards, and there’s room for young and old, famous and upcoming names in this year’s talent pool being honored. From Martin Short and a few Kids in the Hall members, to Russell Peters or Samantha Bee — at least …
Mark Wilson Anderson, who owned the Tempe and D.C. Improv comedy clubs and was forced to shut down the venerable Tempe club on June 1 after a heated battle with a rival club, was found dead Wednesday. He had been reported missing a few weeks earlier. Anderson was 60. Housekeepers …
John Fox has died from colon cancer. The comedian was 54. Fox liked to joke that he looked like Nick Nolte’s headshot and told jokes that suggested he lived even bawdier — he was the kind of dirty club comic that inspired other comedians to write songs about him. Here …
After a five-month battle with urethral cancer that he shared with fans and friends through daily Facebook posts and regular YouTube videos, comedian Ron Shock died today. He was 69. Ron Shock began his comedy career relatively late at the age of 40 but did so in Houston where he was …
For the third consecutive year, The Kennedy Center is going relatively young with its pick for the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, selecting Ellen DeGeneres for the honor in 2012. That’s no knock against DeGeneres. At 54, Ellen dances smoothly past all of her daytime talk-show competitors. Her …
Montreal’s big daddy of comedy festivals celebrates its 30th anniversary this summer, and Just For Laughs has revealed much of its headlining acts for the fete that runs through most of July. Highlights include Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the rest of the Muppets, Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Bob Saget, John Pinette, Lewis …
