The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Todd Lynn, who had suffered from pancreatic cancer and had lost his eyesight in the past year, died on Friday following heart attacks and a stroke. He was in his 40s. But when he appeared last July on Robert Kelly’s “You Know What Dude” podcast at Montreal’s Just For Laughs …
Austin hosts plenty of festivals that keep the city weird with live music, films and comedy. SXSW is the biggest and most well-known. There’s also the Fun Fun Fun Fest. But comedy always is the sideshow to the music. Comedy earns its own place in the sun this April as …
We’re barely a month into the year, and already, 2012 is shaping up to be the year that comedian-on-comedian catfighting becomes a serious issue. In this latest “bout,” we find Chelsea Handler and Joan Rivers trading insults about each other on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM program. Handler fired the first shot …
If you’re on the satellite radio tip, then please remember these Tuesdays to set aside some time at 5 p.m. Eastern to hear Tom Shillue’s new weekly show on Sirius XM’s Laugh USA channel, “Funny Story.” It launched Jan. 10 with guest Jim Gaffigan. The Daily Show‘s Aasif Mandvi sat …
Every time Charles Barkley hosts Saturday Night Live, an angel gets his wings. No. That’s not right. Every time Barkley hosts SNL, NBC programs a big football game on Saturday that inevitably goes late, thereby ruining East Coast DVRs of viewers who spend their Saturday nights out on the town. …
As mobile phones have become more mobile, and equipped with smaller and more powerful video cameras, fans attending live shows have decided that they want to take these cameraphones out of their pockets and hold them up to record the action. But why? Before I attempt to answer my own …
I didn’t know Angelo Bowers, but many comedians working in Los Angeles today did. They reported sadly last night that Bowers died after being struck by a drunk driver. Another comedian, Josh Adam Meyers, was in the car with Bowers and was in a nearby hospital in critical condition as of …
You may not know about it or need it now, but The Actors Fund could help you out in the long run. When Comedy Central established The Comedy Awards last year, the network also created The American Comedy Fund specifically to help members of the comedy community (related reading: See …
It’s never too late for a bonus Christmas present, and what’s tastier than peaches and cobbler? Especially when it comes to you straight from the mouth of Reggie Watts! The Comic’s Comic exclusively presents “Peaches & Cobbler,” a track from “On Life and Quantum Entanglement,” the new live performance from …
Over the past few years, Rebecca A. Trent has built up The Creek and The Cave into a welcoming home for indie comedy one stop off the 7 train into Queens. Derrick Comedy — whose members, Donald Glover, DC Pierson and Dominic Dierkes, have since gone Hollywood for fame and …
