Offline for a few days; please nobody panic (and don’t break comedy news while I’m gone, thanks)
by If I take a break on a holiday weekend, I figure nobody would notice, anyhow. But I'm about to be offline for the next few …
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Lewis Black organizes a comedy cruise with his funny friends
Maybe all of those ads in Aruba for Aruba have convinced Lewis Black that he's ready to take his comedy to the Caribbean. Well, at …
Duncan Trussell and Natasha Leggero offer their own commercial for a Comedy Boot Camp
Perhaps you have read something on this site previously about Comedy Boot Camps? Well, comedians Duncan Trussell and Natasha Leggero decided to offer their own …
If New York City is too tough for The Onion’s local A.V. Club…
What do they say about New York City? "Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there's nothing you can't do." No, the lyric before that, …
Chris Gethard hosts a show in his NYC apartment, with SNL’s Seth Meyers and Kung Fu Monkeys
Some comedians are content to perform in comedy clubs and theaters, perhaps even alt-rooms such as bars and rock clubs. Chris Gethard is a little …
Has anyone seen Andrew Koenig? “Boner” from “Growing Pains” missing since 2/14 in Vancouver
Updated 2/25: RIP Andrew Koenig, found dead today in Vancouver's Stanley Park. He was suffering from depression. He was 41. Passing along some news that's …
“Drunk History” filmmakers talk to The Sound of Young America
You're going to see Jen Kirkman get drunk tonight on HBO and tell her version of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln as part of a …
Somewhere between Randy and “Parks and Rec,” Aziz Ansari became a celebrity comedian
Aziz Ansari is a much bigger name in comedy today than he was a year ago. I'm not sure if I can say what made …
New York comedy scene’s March Madness just got twice as mad; contests at Comix and Carolines?
From 2007-2009, Carolines devoted one night per week in March to its own form of "March Madness" as 64 stand-up comedians paired off in timed …
In other comedy news…or, while I was asleep at the wheel of this blog
Sometimes you have to take a step back before you can take a step forward. OK, now take a step back. Now take a step …