The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Every once in a while, you'll see a live stand-up comedy show somewhere you'd least expect to, like, say, someone's apartment. Chris Gethard (Comedy Central's Big Lake, UCB-NY star) did this as stunt once. In Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, however, there's an apartment building that not only hosts its very own …
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe just announced its winners of the top prizes for 2010, aka the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and Russell Kane took home the top prize for best show for "Smokescreens and Castles." Roisin Conaty won best newcomer honors for her show, "Hero, Fireman, Warrior, Liar." And Bo Burnham …
If Bo Burnham, all of newly 20 years old, did not deserve to be on the 2010 shortlist for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards (sponsored by Foster's, which is Scottish for not quite bottled water but instead it's Australian beer!), I would tell you so. Bo Burnham's "Words, Words, Words" is …
The official site for the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival remains a blank slate of a "coming soon" canvas, but Mirman himself has unveiled the schedule for his third annual celebration of comedy he and his fans enjoy, taking place in three venues in Park Slope, Brooklyn, from Sept. 16-19, 2010. …
If you're a college student and think of yourself as an aspiring journalist and would like to do so by writing multiple blog posts daily as well as conducting interviews and writing reviews of comedians, then Punchline Magazine is looking to put you to work for them for college credit.
Mark Malkoff has generated plenty of attention before with his sociological stunts — in January, I wrote about his attempt to traverse Manhattan from south to north only through the kindness of strangers carrying him along the way. Previously, Malkoff has visited and consumed purchases at all 171 Starbucks locations …
Jimmy Fallon and several members of his Late Night crew are in Los Angeles, preparing for next Sunday's telecast of the Emmys, which Fallon is hosting on NBC. They've done a lot of interactive work with the audience in late night, notably using Fallon's early and massive following on Twitter …
The creators of American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance have a new show up their sleeves, and they're looking for comedians as well as actors and actresses, singers, models and dancers. It's called If I Can Dream, and though it's still in beta, it appears as though …
After a three-year hiatus, the people and web outfit known online as Cringe Humor is back up and running, and then some. In its 2010 reincarnation, Cringe Humor not only will be producing monthly shows — starting with an Aug. 25 kickoff at Comix in NYC (pictured at left) — …
Enjoying a walkabout in the city this weekend, a friend and I noticed that in just about any other city, a Fringe Festival takes over the town and you cannot avoid seeing or hearing about it. But in New York City, the Fringe can be happening and you might not …