The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The hot hippie music and comedy festival that is Bonnaroo starts on Thursday in the fields of Tennessee, but if you cannot make it there this year, then you still can enjoy at least one night of comedy from wherever you also enjoy an Internet connection. Comedy Central will have …
They say Canada is friendly, eh? Well, perhaps not as much for five nights later this month, as the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents the fourth annual Sketch Com-Ageddon. Last year‚Äôs champs, Smells Like the 80s, will face 44 other sketch troupes in nine rounds of comedy competition at Comedy …
SiriusXM radio’s Raw Dog Comedy Channel will get a little more upright on Saturday nights, as it adds a weekly hourlong live radio show from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The shows aren’t exactly live, but they will be recorded in front of the UCB’s usual live audiences in New …
The summer blockbuster movie season usually brings about at least one box-office smash that also destroys at least one major city (or at least makes it seem that way, thanks to special effects), and more often than not, the city that gets plowed over is New York City. Robbie Collier …
Chris Hardwick is having a very productive 2011, and his growing Nerdist Industries empire now has newsletter publisher GeekChicDaily as a partner in that expansion. ‚ÄúI envision a Nerdtopia where video games are free, Cheetos are currency, and robot concubines sate our sexual thirsts. I am confident that Peter Levin, his …
A special two-DVD edition of the 2010 documentary, American: The Bill Hicks Story, finally arrives in America on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. And one lucky reader of The Comic's Comic can win it for free! The two-disc set includes more than five hours of extras, rarely seen footage, plus footage from …
Patton Oswalt wrote an essay titled "A Bit Dis-Remembered," exploring one of his famous older bits — on the Stella D'Oro Breakfast Treats, and his reaction to the old TV commercial for them. He went back to look at the ad, and how much it had resonated with him and how well …
The Friars Club announced today the 10 finalists, plus alternates, who will compete for big cash prizes in the second annual Friars Club Improv & Sketch Competition [FrISC] Five groups made the cut in both improv and sketch categories, after a review by the Friars Club selection committee (disclosure: myself among …
The New York Comedy Festival will continue to get nationwide exposure via Comedy Central, as the fest and the network announced a three-year extension of their partnership. The 2011 NYCF will take place from Nov. 9-13, 2011, with the lineup announced in August. Working together allows some of the NYCF shows, …
Earwolf debuted a new online home page and design over the holiday weekend, and this week welcomes two new additions to its rotation of comedy podcasts: The Apple Sisters, plus Affirmation Nation with Bob Ducca. Each Monday, The Apple Sisters — Candy, Cora and Seedy Apple — bring you all of …