April 19, 2019
MOONTOWER COMEDY FESTIVAL returns this week for their EIGHT ANNUAL and they have absolutely outdone themselves this year and right up until we hit the send […]
January 24, 2019
Colin Quinn Shames Everyone in Red State Blue State Its not big surprise to say that Red State Blue State is a brilliant show- the kind […]
January 23, 2019
Update: Mexican authorities have released a statement regarding the cause of Kevin Barnett’s death. They are listing his COD as “Non Traumatic Hemorrhage caused by pancreatitis.” […]
December 17, 2018
Brian Regan is definitely in the running on any list of America’s favorite stand up comedian. His fanbase is gigantic, he’s beloved by millions, and he […]
December 7, 2018
Kevin Hart got called out today because of some ancient tweets (in the lifespan of Twitter, eight years ago is pretty ancient) that used some shitty […]
December 5, 2018
Comedian Nimesh Patel got booted off stage during a performance at Columbia University event this past weekend. According to reports in the Columbia Spectator, Patel’s set was […]
December 4, 2018
Louis C.K. took the stage at the Cellar Sunday night and had a heckler. The heckler, by her own report, was asked to leave the club. […]
November 26, 2018
When I call him to talk about the new series, This Week at the Comedy Cellar, Ray Ellin (who is known to many as Aruba Ray) […]
November 11, 2018
This week on SNL, the show, via Pete Davidson in a Weekend Update segment apologized to veteran and Navy Seal Dan Crenshaw for a now infamous […]
November 10, 2018
Fans of HBO’s hard-hitting dark comedies have an exciting surprise coming this Sunday at 10:30pm E/P. The premiere of a new series from one of […]
September 25, 2018
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” — Frederick Douglass. Score […]
September 22, 2018
This weekend, “Love, Gilda” the documentary about comedy legend Gilda Radner is in theaters that opened this year’s Tribeca Film Fest is in theaters. I spoke […]
September 21, 2018
Tom Papa‘s new food network show, Baked, is not about getting high, but it will make you very very hungry. Tom is the new king of […]
September 18, 2018
This year’s Emmy Awards was all comedy in structure, but very little comedy in substance. It as an SNL-Centric Emmy. The show opened with comedy and […]
September 14, 2018
Norm Macdonald Appears on Unmasked Show with Ron Bennington One Day After Internet Exploded Critizing His Position on Louis C.K. Norm Was Surprised Comedians Have Come […]
September 11, 2018
Update: On SiriusXM’s Howard Stern Show on Wednesday morning Norm clarified that when Jimmy Fallon told him that he was welcome back anytime, but that it […]
September 6, 2018
Sam Morril is a ridiculously talented young comic, and next Friday September 14 his first hour special debuts on Comedy Central. It’s an “Amy Schumer Presents” […]
September 1, 2018
Positively Fourth Street: New York Comedy Club Opens Its Second New York Location in the East Village It feels like yesterday when we first met Emilio […]
August 30, 2018
The Question That Has Everyone in an Uproar: What Should We Do About Louis C.K.? Louis C.K. returned to the stage this week, and he’s thrown […]
August 27, 2018
Bert Kreischer Keeps No Secrets in His New Netflix Special, “Secret Time”. Everyone’s Getting Outted
No One is Safe in Bert Kreischer’s New Netflix Special, Not Even Bert’s Kids! Bert Kreischer Tells Us How He Prepared His Family for His Latest: […]
August 23, 2018
This year at Just for Laughs we got together with five comedy giants who most comedy fans have never heard of, but these five men and […]
August 13, 2018
I’ve been enthusiastically championing the arrival of the National Comedy Center for about a year now. I first approached the center with a heaping dose of […]
August 9, 2018
Saturday Night Live Originals Dan Aykroyd, Laraine Newman and Alan Zweibel on Stage Together for the First Time in Decades. The original cast and crew of […]
August 7, 2018
Sentimental Opening Celebration Kicks Off National Comedy Center Events in Jamestown W. Kamau Bell Declares “This is Where the First Amendment Lives” Speakers Praise New, […]
August 4, 2018
Kitty Bruce Explains Why Lenny Bruce Wore a Trenchcoat, and The Motivation Behind His Comedy at National Comedy Center Grand Opening Thursday afternoon in Jamestown New […]
July 31, 2018
It’s been a year since we started writing about the National Comedy Center, and now we’re only one day away from the Grand Opening of the […]
July 29, 2018
2018 has been terrible year for humanity, but a great year for Andy Kindler’s annual “State of Comedy” speech at Just for Laughs in Montreal, […]