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When we were young comedy sprouts, just hanging out at the Comedy Factory Outlet in Philadelphia, one of our favorite […]
DAG on standup
David Alan Grier, quoted on BostonNow.com, on the occasion of his upcoming weekend at the Comedy Connection at Faneuil Hall: […]
Steve Martin: No time for standup
Pumping the upcoming Pink Panther sequel and his recent kid’s book (which he co-wrote), Steve Martin is quoted on ContactMusic.com: […]
Comedy hater in training
Stephen Colbert appeared at Cornell last Friday. Read the review by Mary Thomas. Then read the comments by “Anonymous.” Thomas […]
"Blacks Only" show in J-burg
Helen Herimbi, writing about entertainment in South Africa for Tonight, previews Wednesday nights “Blacks Only” in Johannesburg. Blacks Only founder, […]
Comic produces "The Funny Man"
An article in the Columbus Dispatch from last week tells of a film written and produced by Dino Tripodis entitled […]
Comics: Unreliable deviants, chimps, idiots
This is Stanley McHale, columnist for the Liverpool Echo and allegedly a standup comic for the past decade. Her latest […]
Robert Klein BOX DVD SET WINNERS!
We have our FIVE WINNERS! James Blumenfeld, Needham, MA Jerome Leslie, Dorchester, MA Tom Steffen, Plymouth, MN Dustan Birrell, Boise, […]
Followups on Colbert, Actors Fund
The Politico has a somewhat serious and far more detailed analysis of any possible pitfalls that the candidacy of Stephen […]
Optimism in Appleton
No doom and/or gloom in the Appleton Post-Crescent‘s article on the Skyline Comedy Cafe. In “Funny business alive and well […]
O'Loughlin and JFL Tour chug through Canada
An interview with Aussie comic Fiona O’Loughlin is in the Chronicle Herald. She’s doing two shows in Halifax Sunday night […]
Slingbox showcase at Improv Tuesday
Christopher Cannon won the Stand-Up and Sling contest earlier this month. His win nets entitles him to close out the […]
"I'm in violation of the FEC laws, and so can you!"
Several facets of Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert’s South Carolina-only presidential campaign puts him seriously at odds with the outfit […]
Meeting in NYC tomorrow at 3 PM
“The life of an entertainment professional is very similar to any worker or independent contractor that moves from job to […]
Shaun Eli takes ball, runs with it
FOS Shaun Eli takes Jerry Blavat to task. He took Blavat’s boneheaded statement in the Joey Bishop interview as a […]
"There's no good standup comedy any more."
We were on our way to Columbus when we stopped briefly in Washington, PA. The Female Half ventured into a […]
Laughter World: Phillipines, Abu Dhabi
It’s Monday, time for Laughter World! It’s always entertaining when we see how folks halfway around the world regard comedy. […]
Pesky truthers disrupt Maher's Real Time VIDEO
Associated Press reports that a gaggle of 9/11 truthers interrupted Bill Maher‘s Real Time. Maher was talking science during one […]
Joey Bishop followup
John F. Morrison, writing for Philadelphia’s Daily News gives hometown boy Bishop the deluxe treatment in today’s edition. Morrison seeks […]
Joey Bishop, 89
We would have posted sooner, but we were on our way to Morgantown, WV. From the Wall Street Journal: Joey […]
Caryn Elaine Johnson unafraid to appear dumb!
We posted last week about a book, Comedy At The Edge, that quoted several big-name comics dumping on several other […]
Leno drama unfolds!
Eonline and Yahoo! are reporting that Jay Leno isn’t going quietly. The article, citing “three people familiar with the situation,” […]
Dane Cook on an arena tour
Very few solo comics have been able to do a tour that filled (or attempted to fill) arenas around the […]
ComedyTime and DailyMotion strike deal
A press release heralds a deal between “the world’s largest independent video sharing site” and “the global market leader in […]
Harvard club minting comedy geniuses
An article in the Harvard Crimson tells of a club, formed by two ’07 grads, that produces shows on the […]
Comedy, TX gone
An article in the Beaumont Enterprise attempts to sort out the issues involved in the shuttering of that town’s only […]
Carey debuts on Price Is Right
There’s this, from a Reuters/Hollywood Reporter article on Drew Carey‘s ascension to the role of Price Is Right host: The […]
Black Comedy Project
Elon James White and Baron Vaughn, two NYC-based comics have started The Black Comedy Project. They’ve “reached out to comedians […]
Behar recipient of Palm d'Or for Horse Manure
After watching The Better Half on Bravo last night (in which Ardie Fuqua and Joe Matarese taught their better halves […]
When comics turn on comics!
The NYPost has a healthy slice of the upcoming book “Comedy at the Edge,” which chronicles the rise of stand-up […]
As quoted in Forbes.com
Forbes.com’s Lacey Rose has written “The Top-Earning Comedians,” culled from the Forbes Most Powerful Celebrity List. Note the ages of […]
What could he be thinking?
Of course, we make a mistake in assuming that any thinking was going on! Patton Oswalt, in a recent appearance […]
Kids? Kids? Since when is standup for kids?
There is an interesting interview with comedian Teresa Roberts Logan in the Daily Press (Hampton Roads, VA). In it, she […]
Stanhope to join 50-State Club
Doug Stanhope is gigging tonight in Delaware. Not exactly earth-shattering news, but the First State is one of four states […]
Better Half tonight at 10 EDT on Bravo
Here’s how Mike Duffy of the Detroit Free Press nutshells Bravo’s new show in which one spouse teaches the other […]
Ay Columbus!
It’s Columbus Day (Observed!) and we’re in the office! There’s nothing going on out there comedy-wise, so we’re turning out […]
Ay Columbus! Vote for our video!
It’s Columbus Day (Observed!) and we’re in the office! There’s nothing going on out there comedy-wise, so we’re turning our […]
San Francisco Comedy Competition winner
SHECKYmagazine columnist and FOS Paul Ogata is the 2007 SFICC winner! He writes: What a competition! In the end, I […]
Funniest Reporter Contest
FOS Sean L. McCarthy won The Funniest Reporter Contest last night, held as part of the New York Underground Comedy […]
The State of UK TV comedy
Brian Donaldson, writing forthe UK website The List: The state of TV comedy has been a subject of much negativity […]
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