Did this comic take it too far when joking about autistic kids? Australian comic Russel Kane has viewers of the show Good News Week, recorded during the Melbourne comedy festival, enraged over a comment he made on the air regarding children with autism. Here's what went...
Comedy nerd is a term that has been used to describe me. I don't know if that's a fair assessment but I do love comedy. Watching it, talking about it, writing it - I even love just listening to other people talk about it. I feel like it's safe to assume that most the readers...
Adam Ferrera and Lenny Clarke will join Denis Leary next month as he launches the Rescue Me Comedy Tour 2. Leary, who co-created and stars in Rescue Me, held a similar tour last summer and plans to hit 11 cities, starting with a show May 22 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and...
"Very Funny" Festival: Just For Laughs presented by TBS is returning to Chicago this June for its second annual event. Boasting heavy hitters like Greg Giraldo, Aziz Ansari, Jim Norton, Ellen DeGeneres, Cedric The Entertainer, Denis Leary, and Russell Peters, the festival will...
Tool frontman, Maynard James Keenan recently compared his latest touring show Puscifer to Saturday Night Live or Adult Swim, stating that this new live event has more in common with those two than it does with Metallica. Keenan then told the Lansing State Journal that he was...
Comedians are some of the hardest working people I know. Let me preface that. Successful comedians are some of the hardest working people I know. So why is it that comics on Celebrity Apprentice can not catch a break with Donald Trump? Last night on the show, Sinbad was chosen...
Back in May 2007, comedian Guy Earle introduced the next comic during the open mic at Zesty's Restaraunt in Vancouver, Canada. A couple strolled in toward the end of the show, sat down at the front of the stage, and proceeded to heckle Earle. Offensive words were launched from...
Hey, comics: Spike TV may be looking for you to host a late night talk show. The network has begun a nationwide talent search for an "every man" kind of comic to host a project currently in development. Unlike the typical Hollywood and celebrity focused program, this late...
Nate Jackson has become the first comic in the Northwest to advance to the finals of the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition. Jackson, who was first runner up in the 2008 Seattle International Comedy Competition, has joined the ranks of an elite few who started their journey to...
