It's the last week of the Obama era, so if any of the late night hosts are holding onto any jokes about soon-to-be private citizen Barack Obama, now is the time to cash them in.
Earlier this year, the comedy gods gave us the gift of DICE, a half-hour, semi-autobiographical Showtime series based on one of comedy’s most legendary stars: […]
The Stand-Ups on Late Night Television: A Mid-Year Review and Report Card The days when a five-minute appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson could […]
Sam Kinison changed comedy. Although his contributions to comedy were of a different tenor than George Carlin, or Richard Pryor, or Bill Hicks, there isn’t a […]
Last Thursday, approximately 17 years after starting in comedy, Big Jay Oakerson sat down with Ron Bennington at The Stand Comedy Club in New York City, […]
Jeffrey Gurian is a writer and comedian in New York who loves to Jump Around. Follow his regular column, right here, to find out what’s happening in comedy, and who Jeffrey Gurian ran into this week in and around New York. This week Jeffrey covered the scene in at The Stand, the New York Comedy Club and Gotham Comedy Club.