The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If the thought of owing the IRS more than $11 milion in unpaid back taxes wasn’t enough, Chris Tucker also finds himself facing foreclosure as SunTrust Bank filed papers against the comedian/actor earlier this week, the AP reported today. According to documents obtained by the AP, Tucker bought a 10,000-square-foot lakefront home …
If you haven’t yet heard, The Onion‘s corporate executives want to move the editorial staff from New York City to Chicago — where the executives already are based alongside the satirical paper’s nonfiction entertainment section, The A.V. Club. It’s a cost-cutting measure, to be sure. The Onion‘s editorial staff has …
In the world of ABC’s Happy Endings, Casey Wilson’s Penny Hartz and her mom, played by Megan Mullally, used to have a duo singing cabaret act called Two Hartz Beat As One. We’ll get to see a little bit about that on tonight’s episode. Specifically, here’s a teaser of the duo’s …
The East Village and Lower East Side have provided a home for the independent comedy scene in New York City since before I moved here. Luna Lounge. Rififi. Mo Pitkin’s. All since closed. The Slipper Room is under construction. There are venues such as Pianos or Lolita Bar that host …
Who decides who’s the best at using Twitter? Exactly. Nobody knows. Which means everybody can throw their proverbial hats into the three-ring social media circus and make their own proclamations. Which is what the latest edition of kids over at the National Lampoon chose to do with their first-ever Twitter …
As the Occupy Wall Street movement enters its fourth week and expands to activist protests in Los Angeles and elsewhere around America, it’s becoming more difficult to dismiss this as an unorganized, unmotivated lark. In 2008, the disenchanted masses turned their minds and hearts to Barack Obama, because he told …
Congratulations go out to Sean Kent, who has become the third stand-up comedian to win both the San Francisco and Seattle comedy competitions. Kent completed the double with his victory last night in Northern California. This year’s runners-up from the San Francisco contest, in alphabetical order: Sal Calanni, AJ Finney, …
Several annual comedy festivals are now ready to see your video submissions for the coming year. Up next… JANUARY 2012: Magners Comedy Festival, Boston. Shows Jan. 25-28. Click on the link for instructions, and register by entering one of your clips from the Rooftop Comedy website before October 28, 2011. …
George Carlin — who received The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor mere days before he died at the age of 71 on June 22, 2008 — grew up on West 121st Street in the Morningside Heights neighborhood on New York City’s Upper Manhattan. Comedian Kevin Bartini has been …
Want to see some of the comedians who performed at the 2011 Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival? I talked to them about what makes Mirman’s festival so special, and asked them to read their bios that Mirman had written for them in the festival program. Fun times. You’ll learn a fun …
