It’s a busy time for veteran comic Todd Barry. His first hour-long special, Todd Barry: Super Crazy recently aired Comedy Central. The uncut, uncensored version of the special is available now on DVD and CD, iTunes and he’s also embarking on a tour in support of the new...
In theaters June 24 As a Conan O’Brien fan who followed The Tonight Show ordeal as closely and obsessively as Internet access allowed, I’d describe the last two years of the host’s career as: a) hectic and b) well documented. Everybody interested in knowing what went...
Who better to weigh in on Ricky Gervais offending people at the Golden Globes than one of the most offensive/hilarious comics of our time? Comedian Doug Stanhope recently gave his highly uncensored opinion about the hoopla over Ricky Gervais’ hosting job to Scotland’s Sunday...
As voices from around the world weigh in on the turmoil in Egypt, there’s another woerh listening to-- this time from the comedy world. Akmal Saleh, an Egyptian comedian now based in Australia, has expressed his unity with Egypt’s protesters and called for president Hosni...
What’s the next logical step after you’ve adapted your off-Broadway one-man show about sleepwalking into a successful book? For Mike Birbiglia, it’s becoming a window display. That’s right. The big-time comic/author will spend a week in a window display starting this...
Looking for some funny jokes with a decidedly mannish slant? The web network, Comedy Time is launching Man Up, Stand-Up, a new series that will feature top male comics delivering material geared towards an audience of dudes. The show’s first season will be hosted by Last Comic...
With her run on this past season of Last Comic Standing, New York comedian Rachel Feinstein proved she has what it takes to get big laughs out of a big, big, big audience. But with a larger fan-base comes a dramatic increase in the number of people who regularly ask the...
Todd Barry is one of the funniest comics around. And he's on Twitter. So, as you can imagine, his feed consists of some of the funniest tweets around. If you're not someone who scans Twitter all day, rifling through someone’s thousands of tweets, then looking for extra-special...
Kathy Griffin has just landed a deal with Bravo to air four, yes, FOUR new stand-up comedy specials in 2011 – one in each quarter of the year. And yes, each one will be an hour long. "We are continuing to expand to new formats and genres and there is no better way to start...
