June 12, 2014

The Filtered Excellence: June 12, 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 things to do, great things to try, the best picks to read, our favorite things to listen to and more:
May 16, 2014

Who Pranked the Bridgetown Comedy Festival

The Bridgetown Comedy Festival, founded in 2008 by Andy Wood, Matt Braunger, and Kim Brady, just celebrated its 7th year of bringing the finest comedy in the world to Portland, Oregon. This year featured over 200 comics, including Emo Philips, Reggie Watts, W. Kamau Bell, Nathan Fielder, and Dan Harmon, who drunkenly announced the end of "Community" on the afterparty dance floor.
April 30, 2014

Maui Comedy Festival Announced for October 2014

The first annual Maui Comedy Festival is officially on the calendar for October 30 through November 4. Hannibal Buress, Reggie Watts, Ari Shaffir, Paul Provenza, James Adomian, Kyle Kinane, Todd Glass, Tig Notaro, Marc Maron, Aisha Tyler, Eddie Pepitone, Ron Funches, Nate Bargatze, and others totaling 30 comedians will perform in the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui.
March 12, 2014

The 5: The New Music Comedy

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.