Skip to content
June 13, 2025
  • About
  • Last Things First — Podcasts
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Live!
The Comic's Comic

The Comic's Comic

The Definitive Guide to Comedy

  • About
  • Last Things First — Podcasts
  • Live!
  • Comedy Festivals
  • Meet Me In New York
  • About
  • Last Things First — Podcasts
  • Live!
  • Comedy Festivals
  • Meet Me In New York

Tag: Wayne Federman

Garry Shandling’s legendary pickup basketball games almost derailed Borat, helped found Funny or Die, and other memories
News

Garry Shandling’s legendary pickup basketball games almost derailed Borat, helped found Funny or Die, and other memories

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyNovember 13, 2018

There’s a fun new oral history piece out from ESPN The Magazine today about the late great Garry Shandling and his longtime Sunday basketball games …

Listen to The History of Standup as told by Wayne Federman and friends
Audio / News

Listen to The History of Standup as told by Wayne Federman and friends

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthySeptember 20, 2018September 20, 2018

You want to get your TBTs on in a very comedy way? Starting this week, your ear holes can deliver the history of comedy into …

Hear from comedians performing at Just For Laughs Montreal in 2017
Audio

Hear from comedians performing at Just For Laughs Montreal in 2017

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 25, 2017

OK. So I’ve only sat down to podcast with 28 of the comedians performing this week so far as part of the 2017 Just For …

Review: “I Am Battle Comic” by Jordan Brady
Movies / Reviews

Review: “I Am Battle Comic” by Jordan Brady

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyApril 5, 2017April 5, 2017

Jordan Brady, a former (and still) stand-up comedian turned filmmaker, has found a renewed love for comedy a generation after he first entertained audiences in …

Review: Punching Henry
Movies / Reviews

Review: Punching Henry

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyMarch 17, 2017March 17, 2017

After Henry Phillips released his semi-autobiographical movie, Punching the Clown, in 2010, Showtime expressed interest in developing a companion series. That series never came to …

Jordan Brady shoots for “I Am…” trilogy, with the troops for “I Am Battle Comic”
Movies / News

Jordan Brady shoots for “I Am…” trilogy, with the troops for “I Am Battle Comic”

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyMarch 22, 2016

Six years ago, director Jordan Brady turned the cameras back on his comedy career — interviewing dozens of stand-up comedians about the art of joking, …

Episode #40: Wayne Federman
Last Things First -- Podcasts

Episode #40: Wayne Federman

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyDecember 3, 2015December 3, 20151

Today’s guest, Wayne Federman, has been recording stand-up comedy sets in clubs across America for more than 30 years now since starting out in New …

Wayne Federman on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late-night TV credit

Wayne Federman on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyNovember 5, 2015

Throwback Thursday came early in the midnight hour, as Wayne Federman returned to 30 Rock to perform for Jimmy Fallon. Federman had toured with Fallon …

Labors of love: Stand-up comedy specials that show the life’s work of a comedian
Movies

Labors of love: Stand-up comedy specials that show the life’s work of a comedian

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthySeptember 7, 2015September 7, 20151

So many stand-up specials dot the digital landscape, you could have spent your entire Labor Day weekend marathoning them and not completed the catalogue on …

The movie trailer for Jordan Brady’s “I Am Road Comic” documentary
Movies

The movie trailer for Jordan Brady’s “I Am Road Comic” documentary

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJune 3, 2014

Here it is, the official movie trailer for I Am Road Comic, the documentary sequel to Jordan Brady’s I Am Comic. I Am Road Comic …

Posts navigation

1 2 Next

Archives

Buy Comedy Books!

Try Apple News

Subscribe to Podcast

Androidby EmailRSS
Copyright © 2025 The Comic's Comic. Powered by WordPress and Bam.