Connecticut restaurant creates limited-edition Birbig Burger for Mike Birbiglia tour
by Earlier today, Mike Birbiglia declared: “I am obviously a culinary genius.” What, pray tell, had the stand-up comedian and storyteller done with food this time? …
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The 10 Questions Everyone Asks Stand-Up Comedians
Stand-up comedian Josh Gondelman isn’t unlike most other stand-ups who work the road and also work on their acts in their home cities and clubs. …
Your chance to help schedule Montreal’s Just For Laughs in 2012
Is there a comedian you’d absolutely love to see in Montreal this July as part of the 30th anniversary of the Just For Laughs festival? …
Paying it forward: Marc Maron’s five comedians to watch in 2012
Marc Maron has benefited greatly in the past couple of years since he began his WTF podcast and earned not only much-deserved respect but a …
TBS, Just For Laughs team up for fourth annual comedy festival in Chicago
The Windy City is becoming more and more a traditional annual stop into America for Just For Laughs, as the biggest comedy festival organization has …
TV Guide Network dips toes into stand-up comedy, talk shows
The TV Guide Network wants to make you laugh while you wait for the channel listings to scroll past (although don’t you have another cable …
First NYC Improv Festival, fourth annual Women in Comedy Festival, begin tonight
If you’re in Boston or New York City this week, then you can join in the fun as two different comedy festivals kick off tonight …
The Onion’s NYC office auction/sell-off
Look. I know this isn’t the actual table. But still. The Onion’s editorial staff is facing a move this spring to Chicago to meet up …
Gallagher hospitalized, in coma following second heart attack
Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr., known to audiences as the watermelon-smashing comedian Gallagher, suffered another heart attack on Wednesday and was placed in a medically-induced coma. …
BBC Radio to try U.S. version of “The News Quiz,” hosted by Lewis Black
You may be familiar with the NPR quiz-show staple, “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.” But in Britain, they’d already been having fun with the news on …