Jeffrey Gurian continues to Jump Around up north to cover the last few days of the Montreal Just for Laughs comedy festival. Jeffrey joined our site as […]
He has a substandard poodle, he owns the domain name patheticmen.com, his groupies are middle aged jewish couples who invite him over for soup, he likes to find comedy in odd places, and he is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of his show, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist. The "he" in question, of course is stand up comedian Jonathan Katz.
We talk with people in the business of comedy all over the country and find out what's happening, what's happened, and what's coming up soon. This week Jimmy Pardo is celebrating 500 episodes, Judah Friedlander tells us about an upcoming cameo, Kayvan Khalatbari is running for office, and what's new on MTV2.
Bill Hicks, the influential comedian whose cutting wit and acute social observational brand of humor influenced everyone from Denis Leary, Marc Maron, Dave Attell and Patton Oswalt through Lewis Black and Russell Brand, will be the subject of a career spanning retrospective covering all of his audio and video output.