They came for a comedy show and got a free lesson in TV production. Thursday’s near-capacity crowd was greeted with a different Comedy Connection than they had seen before. Tracking dollies and cameras filled the raised section of seats in the back of the club,...
Jeff Allen was a comedian before he was a born-again Christian. So he seems to understand that when he's onstage, he's not preaching. Like any other comic, he's just trying to give people his point of view. What he presents on the Jeff Allen Live: Happy Wife, Happy Life...
Back in July, when Esquire's Jeff Miller was asking the question, "Will the Next Dane Cook Please Stand Up?" he took a shot at Steven Wright. One of his candidates was Demetri Martin, a fine comic in his own right who keeps getting better. In his bullet-point list asking...
There's no doubting John Pinette's ability to hook an audience. He always packs the house at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, and he's as popular on the club circuit as any working comic. He's gotten more out of making fun of his girth than just about any comic -- ...
Patton Oswalt's career is exploding. He's the lead voice in Ratatouille, Pixar's latest surefire hit, he just ended a nine-year run on the popular King of Queens and he's near ubiquitous in any cool comedy project, either as a writer or as a character actor. And now he's...
Comedians face a bit of a dilemma when recording an album. They can do all their best new material and risk repeating themselves night after night. Or they can record old material and risk sounding irrelevant or, worse, disinterested. So an album of older material called...
