The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I was fortunate enough last night to meet Mary and Steve Hicks, the mother and brother of late, great comedian Bill Hicks. They were in New York City to attend a screening of American: The Bill Hicks Story. I'm not sure which of the other cities they'll be visiting as …
The Comedy Awards, airing Sunday on multiple Viacom networks, aren't just about celebrating great work by comedians and comedic actors over the past year. They're also a chance to help out our fellow comedians in need. MTV Networks and Comedy Central have helped launch the American Comedy Fund, which will …
Anything Shaq can do, Ron Artest can do better? Well, that remains to be seen, but Artest sure seems willing to give live comedy a try, as the Los Angeles Laker will spend at least two nights after the 2010-11 NBA season ends this summer hosting stand-up (and performing, too!) …
People who paid up to several hundred dollars per ticket to see Charlie Sheen's live tour had no idea what to expect last night in Detroit. And that was just part of the problem. Unless you were comedian Kirk Fox. And then it was the problem. Because the audience in …
We're still more than a week away from the multi-channel premiere of The Comedy Awards, but TV Land is offering a nostalgic look back at the previous editions of "The American Comedy Awards" with an hourlong special tonight called The Best of The American Comedy Awards: A Retrospective of Past …
Seeing that Jake Johannsen was returning to New York City this weekend to perform at Gotham Comedy Club, and seeing that his most recent special from last year, I Love You, was playing on Showtime, I decided to catch it on the repeat overnight. Johannsen's bit about taxes, of course, …
For a third straight year, Just For Laughs has partnered with TBS to venture into Chicago in June for a multi-day comedy festival featuring top-name comedy talent. While we wait to see which locals make the cut, here's the initial slate of headliners. George Lopez and Russell Peters make return …
If you caught a gander at the Sunday papers in New York City, then you noticed that both the Post and the Daily News have made their annual stabs at pretending to care about comedy. For the past few years, the Post has cast out its nets to round up …
My very first live podcast, everybody, and it happened at SXSW's 2011 Interactive Festival! For those of you who missed the panel I moderated in Austin, "Social Media and Comedy: F**k Yeah!" or who just want to listen to it all over again, it was recorded for posterity. I asked …
Wondering when the Upright Citizens Brigade will go ahead and open that darned East Village location already? So are they. As the UCB's Alex Sidtis told EV Grieve last week: "We're eagerly awaiting clearance from the city to open and start booking shows." But they have to deal with city bureaucracy …