The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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? Certainly something involving pizza, considering how much he talks about the pies onstage and off. If you guessed pizza, then you were very very very …
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. When he’s not onstage, he often fields queries both strange and stranger from the “civilian” population. Gondelman sat down for Thought Catalog, thought about it, …
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? Then not only can you voice your opinion to the JFL programming people, but also get a chance to see that performer(s) for yourself! And …
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 newfound audience, and in the comedy issue of Paste magazine, Maron is paying it forward with his five comedians to watch in 2012. And they …
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 teamed up for a fourth straight June with TBS on Just For Laughs Chicago. They announced the initial slate of headlining shows for June 12-17, …
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 menu to use by now, so perhaps this network needs to produce original programming by now). And so. They announced two new comedy ventures this …
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 and run through the weekend. The PIT hosts the first-ever NYC Improv Festival from March 21-24. Festival organizers have described their mission: “Over the past …
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 with HQ (and The AV Club and advertising/sales staff to cut costs), so they’ve begun putting their New York City office supplies up for bid …
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. Gallagher’s manager told the Huffington Post that he was placed in the coma Thursday — following his heart attack on Wednesday night in Texas — …
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 a weekly basis for two decades before “Wait Wait” with “The News Quiz.” And with the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign hitting full stride, the BBC …
