The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you've been to New York Magazine's Vulture section recently, you've noticed they redesigned it to look like its very own section that lessens the direct connection to NYC and plays up the coverage of culture (they've even acquired the vulture.com domain name, which redirects to the magazine's site). More …
You may have seen Steve-O do stunts you wouldn't expect any human being to do willingly, but before Wednesday night, you most likely had never seen the "Jackass" daredevil perform stand-up comedy clean and sober. Or at least sober, as Steve-O's 10-minute set Wednesday night at the Hollywood Improv's ComedyJuice …
Cool kids back in the day could attend any show at The Comedy Store on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip with a black "permanent guess pass" card. Guess what? They're back in limited circulation. Note: Not so good no more at the 1621 Westwood location. It's not as cool as getting …
I don't know why stand-up comedians feel the need to seek and break the world record for longest individual stand-up show. I know why comedian Bob Marley is doing it — or at least the, when, where, and for whom part, as the Maine stand-up who still is not to …
The San Francisco International Comedy Competition is underway for its 35th year, and Auggie Smith — who finished runner-up in 2001 — dominated again in the first week of preliminaries, outright winning four of the six nights. Week two begins tonight at Sonoma State. For a quick recap, here were …
My buddy in comedy blogging Todd Jackson may not be blogging as much, but that's because he has been tinkering in his online workshop, and he has figured out how to track stand-up comedy headliners across North America, week by week, in case you're ever wondering when the comedian you …
The initial slate of programming for the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, has been announced this afternoon, and look who's on it! If you'd like to learn more about how the gosh-darned Internet and all of these social media networks have changed the game for comedy, well, then, …
Do you really need a tornado to be transported to another world? Maybe. It certainly helped add to the theme last night when thunderstorms brought funnel clouds through Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, uprooting trees just a block or two away from the start of the third annual Eugene Mirman Comedy …
After a series of teasing pre-announcements, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert announced last night on Comedy Central that they would, in fact, host actual rallies on the National Mall in Washington D.C. on Oct. 30, 2010. As Stewart pointed out, this coincides with the end of a week full of …
Some other comedy news and tidbits that caught my eye includes: Sacha Baron Cohen is going to play Queen's Freddie Mercury in a biopic? Wow. (Deadline) Mike Drucker spells out how comedians perceive themselves, versus how the rest of the world perceives them. No one is spared. Just like a …