The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The finalists from season seven of NBC's Last Comic Standing begin a North America tour tonight in Chico, Calif. Great news for Felipe Esparza, Tommy Johnagin, Roy Wood Jr., Mike DeStefano and Myq Kaplan, as well as fans of these comedians who'd like to see them live in a city near …
TRL isn't coming back to MTV, but something kinda sorta like it is, and you came this close to seeing two stand-up comedians host it! The Hollywood Reporter reported overnight that MTV would debut "The Seven" as a live weekday afternoon show broadcast from Times Square in the 5 p.m. …
As Daniel Tosh himself wrote on Twitter today: "This is not going to help." Here he is, topless (bottomless?) in bed with Perez Hilton. Roll the clip!
What do you do when you have racked up TV credits, performed at the prestigious comedy festivals and contests around North America, and still haven't broken through to the next level of your career as a stand-up comedian? If you're Nate Bargatze, Jarrod Harris, Sean Patton and Rory Scovel, you …
Some news for fans of The Zog, aka Seth Herzog, aka the man who cannot stop dancing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and has hosted New York City's most popular indie weekly comedy night that also features his mother… Herzog headlines tonight at Comix in NYC with special guests, …
For your consideration… Related: Goldenfiddle's Spencer Sloan knows you don't need 1,000 words to sum up an awesome moment on last season's SNL, with Jenny Slate and Alec Baldwin. Furthermore: This just means we get to look forward to more Marcel the Shell.
Robert Schimmel, the stand-up comedian known for exploring the darker aspects of his own life and delivering sexually explicit material that resonated with "mature audiences" who packed comedy clubs and theaters to see him, died Friday after failing to recover from very serious injuries suffered in a car accident eight …
Ochi's Lounge, which opened three years ago in the basement of NYC comedy club Comix and simultaneously offered a bar and stage for several independently produced stand-up comedy shows while also confusing unsuspecting audience members from Comix's mainstage who were looking for the bathrooms, has closed. A new investor plans …
The Upright Citizens Brigade is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its Los Angeles theater with two different all-star lineups of shows on Sept. 18 at the UCB's northern Hollywood hub. Tickets ($20) go on sale Sept. 1 at noon Pacific and should sell out quickly. Both shows are hosted by …
New York City and Boston may be hosting their annual comedy festivals in November 2010, but only Philadelphia is trying to make November "Comedy Month." Or at least the first three weeks of the month. I know it's still August, but today is the early deadline for groups from the …