April 15, 2016
Once per year in late March and early April, the whole of the entertainment world allows itself to indulge and dive headfirst into the ridiculous world of professional wrestling.
March 19, 2016
Comedian Bonnie McFarlane has been getting RAVES for her new book, You're Better Than Me. Earlier this week hundreds of fans packed into New York City's Village Underground comedy club to hear her speak with SiriusXM radio host Ron Bennington about the book.
March 8, 2016
Big Jay Oakerson is Ready to Be America's Next Comedy Rock Star, and It's About Time
March 1, 2016
Ramon Rivas II is a stand up comedian and eminent Latino from Cleveland, OH, but his role in Cleveland comedy goes way beyond either of those two descriptions. He is the latest in a short list of dedicated comedy personalities to take on the unofficial role of keeping the comedy scene vibrant in Cleveland. He was featured in the documentary 'Make Fun' and has been lauded in festivals and competitions all over the United States, and now he's created this brilliant oral history of his city, with commentary from club owners past and present, big personalities and comedy stars including Sinbad, Dave Hill, Jim Tewes and two dozen others.
January 29, 2016
Comedian T.J. Miller will be joining host Ron Bennington as the next guest on Unmasked, a series of uncensored conversations with the world’s greatest comedic voices.
January 20, 2016
Monday night, three comics tweeted that Amy Schumer lifted their jokes, and Tuesday we posted a story about the tweets. Today a video began circulating that compiled all of the jokes that were reference in the tweets.
January 19, 2016
Three comedians are accusing Amy Schumer of stealing their jokes.
January 6, 2016
Artie Lange has made a career out of being nasty so it is no surprise that when Showtime wanted to create a special based around the most popular show at Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival, they chose Artie Lange to host it.
November 30, 2015
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 was a holiday week with a little less Jumping, but Jeffrey checked out Gotham Comedy Club for Comedy Juice, had a chat with rising star Roy Wood Jr., and talks about his friend, Patrice O'Neal, who passed away four years ago yesterday.
November 10, 2015
Patrice O'Neal was a brilliant comedian, and we lost him too soon. If like us, you want to hear and own every available minute of Patrice's comedy, you'll want to grab The Lost Files: 2005.
November 9, 2015
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 stopped at The Stand, The Village Underground, Bravo TV and more! Also Jeffrey is going up this week at Broadway Comedy Club for his first headlining gig ever! Scroll down for details and please join us to support comedy's biggest supporter this Thursday!
October 20, 2015
Social media and regular media were buzzing with allegations today that Amy Schumer might have committed the highest comedic sin- stealing a joke.
September 21, 2015
Big Jay Oakerson has a brand new digital Pilot available on Comedy Central to watch. In the series, titled “Lucky Loser with Big Jay Oakerson” Big […]
August 25, 2015
Tonight, The Stand Comedy Club in New York City debuts their own comedy roast show officially titled Brian Moses and Jeffrey Ross Presents The Roastmasters. This is no imitator show. Brian Moses is one of the creators of the original Roast Battle in Los Angeles and still runs the weekly show at the Belly Room.
August 14, 2015
On Thursday SiriusXM launched a new comedy channel called Comedy Greats that will play the legends of comedy around the clock. For their big launch event, Comedian […]
August 6, 2015
The third invitational show brought out some great comedians last night on Last Comic Standing. Twelve more comics performed, and eight of those twelve will get another chance to […]
August 2, 2015
In film, directors often receive more acclaim and recognition than the screenwriter. Yet in television, the reverse is true. So we thought we would highlight some of the most important directors in television comedy working today.
July 23, 2015
To steal (and paraphrase) a quote from Patrice O'Neal. Does hip age like wine or does it does it age like bread?
July 23, 2015
Yesterday was my first day back in Montreal for the 2015 Just For Laughs Festival and there's already so much to talk about I don't know where to start.
June 22, 2015
Comedian, writer, actor and producer Jim Gaffigan will be the guest on the next episode of Unmasked with host Ron Bennington. In his one hour series, Bennington interviews the biggest names in comedy about their craft, and their creativity in front of a live audience.
June 15, 2015
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 visited Gotham, The Cellar, The PIT and UCB.
June 8, 2015
Emerging Talents Feel More Like Headliners at First Annual Second City Break Out Festival in Chicago
This weekend NBC and Chicago's Second City held the first ever "Break Out Comedy Festival" to give a showcase to diverse emerging comedic talents, or as host Ron Funches put it- not white people. The event included some panels and talks but the highlight was a two night comedy showcase held at Second City's Up Comedy Club. Two nights of outstanding performances included stand up, sketch work, solo work, characters, and improv hosted by The Daily Show's Al Madrigal on Friday night, and Ron Funches who you know from the hit NBC series Undateable on Saturday night.
April 11, 2015
Kevin James has four kids. It helps keep them on their toes.
March 21, 2015
I’m curious about the writing process of others — comedians, authors, musicians. Similar to finding their voice and persona on-stage, a comic has to find a writing process that best suits them.
March 19, 2015
Plans for a documentary to honor one of the truest voices in comedy have been announced.
March 9, 2015
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 reports from The Stand, Town Hall, Gotham Comedy Club, and more…
March 4, 2015
With America still reeling in anger from Rolling Stone ranking every SNL cast member, the magazine doubles down with a ranking the Comedy Central Roasts.