April 28, 2014
Eugene Mirman's hit Brooklyn comedy show "Pretty Good Friends" is hitting the road and, this is exciting stuff.
April 28, 2014
It's been announced that comedian and writer Michael Che will be the newest member of The Daily Show roster as their newest correspondent. Michael is currently an SNL writer, and is was named one our 7 Comedians Ready to Blow Up earlier this year. He was also the first comedian to perform on Seth Meyer's new Late Show on NBC in February of this year.
April 28, 2014
Boston's Women in Comedy Festival returns for the Sixth Year featuring some amazing headliners like Amy Sedaris, Maria Bamford, and Judy Gold alongside some great improv, and a first rate line up of panelists and workshops.
April 25, 2014
Like a jealous girlfriend stuck at home while the boys went off to party, we are missing the MoontowerComedy and Oddity Festival, but don’t worry, we’re doing […]
April 24, 2014
Bob Geldof once asked us, “Where is the filtered excellence!?” It’s right here. Here are this weeks picks of the best things to watch, the most interesting […]
April 22, 2014
“The Podcast You Absolutely Have To Listen To” is a new series where we talk about the podcasts on the internet you should be checking out. If you’re living on planet Earth, you already know about the most famous ones– like WTF with Marc Maron, The Adam Carolla Show, The Nerdist, The Joe Rogan Experience, and Comedy Bang Bang. But there are literally thousands more and we’re combing through them for you, to let you know which ones you should check out first. This week, “You Know What Dude!” with Robert Kelly
April 20, 2014
Eugene is bringing his 2nd Annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival to Boston May 1-4. This is the 2nd year that Lexington-raised comedian Mirman is bringing his hit comedy festival from Brooklyn to Boston, and it's already grown 33%! This years festival will be one night longer than last year's festival, kids! The Sinclair and Berklee Performance Center will be hosting of four nights of comedy and music.
April 17, 2014
Bob Geldof once asked us, “Where is the filtered excellence!?” It’s right here. This week, John Turturro, Woody Allen, Lisa Robinson and more.
April 10, 2014
Set aside April 23rd to the 26th and book a flight, because the 3rd Annual Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival in Austin promises to be everything you ever hoped a comedy festival would be.
April 1, 2014
March 27, 2014
Bob Geldof once asked us, “Where is the filtered excellence!?” It’s right here. This week, MLB, March Madness continues, NY First Time Fest and more.
March 19, 2014
It's festival season time and there are so many to choose from. But we're not talking about music festivals, we're talking comedy. Here is your guide to the best festivals, with the best comedy lineups in 2014.
March 12, 2014
Music has always been a part of comedy. Since the days of the old traveling vaudeville shows, to era of the novelty song, the parody song, through to todays more modern take on musical comedy, there will always be musical comedy. These five musical comedy acts are the latest wave of a tradition that has included the Smothers Brothers, Weird Al Yankovic, Stephen Lynch Lonely Island and so many others.
January 23, 2014
Bob Geldof once asked us, “Where is the filtered excellence!?” It’s right here. This two great documentaries, new music and more
May 26, 2013
Starring, Tommy Pope and "Mr. Rubberface" Terry Gillespie, this event will not only be a good time, but also help us continue our mission of rescuing Siberian Huskies and Husky mixes.
October 24, 2012
Comedy writer and performer Jeffrey Gurian knows everyone in the business. He’s written for, interviewed, or worked with an endless list of comedy greats including Joan […]
July 13, 2012
You already know Aziz Ansari from his huge standup career, and from shows like “Human Giant” and “Parks and Recreation” and the movie “30 Minutes or […]
November 18, 2011
With the New York Comedy Festival starting this week, we’ve been thinking about who have been the greatest best stand-up performers of each decade from the […]
November 8, 2011
Paul F. Tompkins had his first big break when he joined the writing staff and cast of Mr. Show with Bob and David. He's also been featured on The Daily Show, Comedy Central Presents, and hosted the VH-1 show, Best Week Ever. More recently he's become known for his own shows at the Largo in Los Angeles, his Podcast The Pod F. Tompkast, and his stand up appearances around the country. He came to Sirius XM to spend an hour with Ron Bennington on Unmasked recently. What follows are a few excerpts from that interview.