Since we're all certified (or perhaps just certifiable) comedy nerds here, it's a pretty safe assumption to say that we love talking the ins and outs of what makes for outstanding comedy. It comes as great news then, that stand-up dynamo Bonnie McFarlane, a proud pledgee of the...
Seven tracks into Don Jamieson’s raucous and obscene stand-up album, Live and Hilarious, there’s an unfortunately timed bit called, “Obama, Osama, Airport Security,” in which Jamieson asserts that Obama isn’t doing enough to find OBL and end the war on terror. The...
When I was 17, it was a very good year. George W. Bush hadn’t yet had the opportunity to drive the country into massive collapse, and a friend of my brother’s introduced me to a wonderfully affecting offbeat comedy called Wet Hot American Summer – a film I loved and...
Tammy will be performing at Carolines in NYC from Feb 3. - Feb 6. Tickets here. Once upon a time, in a comedy club far, far away (or very close by, if you happen to share neighborhood zoning permits with the Comedy Store in LA), Tammy Pescatelli had a dream about escaping...
At this stage in her career, it’s not at all difficult for any outlying individuals to reach this conclusion: Amy Schumer – comedian, actress, all-around awesome babe to the nth power – is poised to steal the “hardest working legs in showbiz” moniker from under the...
[caption id="attachment_16648" align="alignright" width="150" caption="is Byron Allen a genius or just insane?"][/caption] Dating comedians. We've all dreamed of it - hell, some of us have even dared to tread those murky and mysterious waters. (And for our effort, we've emerged...
Emmy-nominated actor Jon Hamm, better known to most cocktail and cigarette enthusiasts as TV's Don Draper, will return as a guest on Jimmy Pardo's popular podcast, Never Not Funny. Before his skirt-chasing, perpetual dick-itude stint on Mad Men, Hamm appeared as a frequent...
Comedy icon Sandra Bernhard headlines Rooftop Comedy's Out Loud Comedy and Arts Festival -- running Oct. 7 - 10 -- in San Francisco. In in an interview with Punchline Magazine, the versatile force of nature tells all! Sandra Bernhard – actress, comedian, musican, pusher of...
Love him or loathe him, it’s hard to undermine the brilliant business savvy of one Nick Swardson. As an all-star comedian with a finger in nearly every piece of the industry pie (yes, I’d like to hope he’ll take that vaguely sexual syntax and run with it to the most...
