Net Neutrality rears its ugly head this Monday

That’s when the FCC will get the ball rolling in earnest in their effort to

Comics all over "The Informant!"

From comedian/Tahoe Improv manager Howie Nave‘s Facebook status comes this mini appreciation of the new Matt Damon movie, “The Informant!”: […]

Comedian in SF comedy competition tweeting

Go here to read comedian Ron Babcock‘s tweets on the San Francisco Comedy Competition. He’s in it. His tweets have […]

Leno numbers predictably dip

James Hibbert’s Live Feed has an excellent analysis of the Leno sweepstakes. Everyone expected the numbers to be big on […]

Premiere of Jay Leno in primetime

From the NBC.com site, under “About the show”: Marking a new era in television, Jay Leno, recently named America’s Favorite […]

Larry Gelbart, wrote for Hope

Larry Gelbart died today and, while he was not a comic, he wrote for Bob Hope. The last time we […]

Howard Lapides profiled in hometown paper

The interview with Howard Lapides in the Buffalo News is interesting for its insight into the manager-client relationship. Of course, […]

Comedy "genre with the worst shelf life?"

Mick LaSalle, the SF Chroncle’s movie critic, says that while comedy might be universally appealing and durable, comedy films can […]

Chris Patrick, NYC comedian

Just got the following email: NY comic Chris Patrick passed away Thursday August 27th in his apartment. Services were held […]

Halves descend on Los Angeles in October

It’s all over Facebook– ominous snapshots of glowing skies and flaming hillsides. Many of our friends in SoCal are a […]

Roasts expanded the First Amendment?

Greg Beato wrote As Nasty As They Wanna Be; How the Friars Club roasts expanded the First Amendment for Reason.com, […]

Time didn't expect David Cross's answer

David Cross has a book out. It’s published by Grand Central (a “small” publishing house with $500,000,000 in annual revenue […]

Can standup use the fancy technology?

This is a review of a website (it’s currently in beta) that seeks to be a one-stop portal for musical […]

Standup comics swim in Soups

We caught comedian Matt Iseman hosting Sports Soup on Versus this past weekend. It was the first time we’d watched. […]

Feedburner fixed!

We have successfully jiggered our settings! Just click on the logo and you’ll be taken to our feed page. Hit […]

Books on standup abound

The Los Angeles Times reviews “I’m Dying Up Here:Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy’s Golden Era,” a book by […]

Both Halves to appear in Bordentown, NJ POSTPONED

We are going to re-schedule the Record Collector date for January. Stay tuned! The Record Collector is a non-traditional venue […]

Comedians on the Dean Martin Show

The series ran from 1965 to 1974. It’s available on DVD (the infomercials run constantly on DirecTV). We had the […]

Tap into a delicious vein of importantness

Steve Roye is a comedian and “The Professor of Funny for Money” (his description, not ours). He is the developer […]

How not to do panel

The best laugh was one of relief– when Conan says, “None of this will air.” (Amateur body linguists can just […]

Let's call it "moronicity."

What a muddled mess is the article in Variety that is headlined “Thesps on eponymous shows actually act.” Miami television […]

Joy Little of the Comedy Works UPDATE (Obit)

Joy Little has passed away after a brief illness. (Philadelphia Inquirer obituary.) Little was the proprietor of the Comedy Works […]

Stress is good for you?

The article in Women’s Health Magazine is entitled “Find Your Stress Sweet Spot” and it says that “certain pressure-filled situations… […]

Stewart the darling of neocons?

There’s an interesting (and short!) article about “Why Neoconservative Pundits Love Jon Stewart” in New York magazine. It includes thumbs-up […]

Bananas Comedy

We were winding down in our hotel room last night, here in Vegas. Round about 2 AM or so, a […]

Adam Leslie comedian

We’re in Vegas this week. We heard, through three different sources, that Adam Leslie is dead. Here’s his bio, from […]

Recession breeds more comedian wanna-be's

Or so claims the AP article by John Rogers. There’s just something about a recession that makes people want to […]

Git 'r' done… with six zeroes after it

An article in the Journal-Star of Lincoln, NE, says that Dan and Cara Whitney (aka, Larry The Cable Guy and […]

Review of "Funny People" on HuffPo

Someone named Gwen Davis wrote this on Huffington Post: To my surprise, I actually liked Seth Rogen, whom I have […]

Female Half one of 85 Comedians to Follow on Twitter

Mashable, the Social Media Guide, compiled a list of 85 Comedians to Follow on Twitter. They say “laughter is the […]

Atlantic Monthly: New era in standup comedy?

Christina Davidson, writing in The Atlantic, provides a primer on the how and why of papering the house. In this […]

Lying About: Standup, Episode 3: “Funny People”

“Funny People” topped the box office this past weekend. In a review by Roger Ebert in the Sun Times, he […]

The Jonas Brothers and…

Louis CK comment brought topside

Some folks were dropping this in its entirety into their websites and forum posts (a violation of WWW ethics, credited […]