July 25, 2017
Laughly is a fairly new streaming app, that promises to change the way you listen to comedy. Offering streaming channels playing comedy 24/7, plus an upgraded […]
April 13, 2017
Billy Crystal no longer does just stand up comedy. Now, his shows are full multi-media events and on his latest tour, Bonnie Hunt is now part of the experience.
April 10, 2017
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 […]
April 9, 2017
Morten Nielsen is a Danish anthropologist currently doing a research project and a book on stand-up comedy in New York.
March 17, 2017
Forgive the pun, but Bobcat Goldthwait is an interesting cat. Having risen to fame as a stand-up comic with a dark and bizarre stage persona, he […]
February 25, 2017
“We never like to use the word mime but it’s an empty stage. It is filled with stuff and you can’t see it.” Physical comedy has […]
February 20, 2017
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 […]
February 19, 2017
Montreal Just for Laughs is the godfather of comedy festivals and there is no annual event at Just for Laughs or any other festival that is […]
February 18, 2017
The Umbilical Brothers from Australia have appeared on both Leno and Letterman in the past, but congratulations to Stephen Colbert for being the current day host who brought them back to late night in the United States.
February 15, 2017
Live Comedy in New York City This Week: New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to […]
January 31, 2017
If Dana Carvey is known for one thing, it’s his impressions. He famously portrayed George H.W. Bush on Saturday Night Live for years, and even built […]
January 26, 2017
In a time when gender fluidity seems to be more and more in the news, we see that it can happen with intellectual properties as well.
January 7, 2017
Rumble.com says they have created a compilation video of the first performances by some of the greatest comedians of all time. We can’t officially verify or […]
December 27, 2016
It was a big year for comedy news in 2016 with news both good and bad– the loss of some legends of comedy in the fields of […]
December 15, 2016
Live Comedy in New York City This Week: New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to […]
December 3, 2016
The Toronto comedy landscape experienced a permanent shift of seismic proportions on Friday with the loss of its “Mama” Jo-Anna Downey. The aftershocks and tremors were […]
November 16, 2016
Live Comedy in New York City This Week: New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to […]
November 11, 2016
Vancouver-based record label 604 Records struck it big with Carly Rae Jepsen’s gigantic pop hit Call Me Maybe, and other homegrown talent, like Marianas Trench, Theory […]
November 4, 2016
Bob Geldof once asked us, “Where is the filtered excellence!?” It’s right here. Once a week we take a break from comedy to bring you this week’s […]
October 7, 2016
With light being shown on Robin Williams’ struggle as recently as the end of September in an editorial on neurology.org by his wife, a glow will […]
October 5, 2016
Comedy Dynamics President Brian Volk-Weiss Talks About Joke Theft and Plagiarism Brian Volk-Weiss is the President of Comedy Dynamics, the largest independent producer and distributor of recorded […]
September 26, 2016
Energetic and affable Chicago-comedian Sebastian Maniscalco’s fourth stand-up comedy special “Why Would You Do That?” will premiere on October 1st through Showtime at 10 PM. Maniscalco […]
September 16, 2016
Doug Stanhope’s long awaited new stand-up special, No Place Like Home, was finally released on Seeso today. Filmed in Stanhope’s tiny hometown of Bisbee, Arizona, the […]
September 1, 2016
New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night. Christine Marie Evans and Emily Cohen curate a list every week of […]
July 19, 2016
Louis CK gets more than enough credit for being one of the greatest stand-up comedians in the game today, so aside from agreeing that it’s a […]
June 21, 2016
Music streaming service Pandora is celebrating a milestone this week with five years having passed since it introduced its first ever dedicated comedy station. In that […]
May 24, 2016
Burning Out on a High Note: Will Hart Follow the Examples of Some of Stand Up’s Greatest Performers, and Walk Away? Starting in April of 2016, […]