By Dylan P. Gadino | April 4, 2011 at 3:16 am | No comments
There's no hope for mankind. We're all doomed and there's nothing we can do about it. It's time we just face that truth.
And the truth is hilarious.
At least it is in the hands of comedian Colin Quinn, who, with his Broadway show-turned television comedy special Long Story...
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By Punchline Magazine | March 21, 2011 at 11:29 am | No comments
Recently, comedian Natasha Leggero had a spike in popularity after becoming the first woman that nutbag Charlie Sheen responded to on Twitter.
Natasha, in her typical scathingly sarcastic tone, tweeted "Charlie Sheen is our Egypt," and Sheen replied, "I'll take it." Forbes...
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By Stephanie Swain | March 18, 2011 at 9:55 am | One comment
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The Beards of Comedy tour is one of the funniest collections of bushy faces that have ever trekked across the United States....
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 14, 2011 at 10:58 am | No comments
Over the weekend, I dropped by the Women in Comedy Festival, which was going down in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The third annual event, which ran from March 9 - 13 hosted comedy panels, workshops and of course shows-- lots of shows covering stand-up, sketch and...
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By John Delery | March 3, 2011 at 12:16 pm | 103 comments
Like Jim Norton and Patrice O’Neal, Sarah Silverman and Lisa Lampanelli, Daniel Tosh clearly belongs to Comics Without Borders, a cadre of comedians that fearlessly (some scolds may say tastelessly) crosses boundaries to deliver jokes to those in need…of convulsive...
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By Jeffrey Gurian | February 28, 2011 at 10:24 am | One comment
The Key of Awesome!
The Key of Awesome makes comedy video parodies. Their Kesha parody of her hit song Tik Tok got 63,000,000 views (that’s not a typo!) and still rising.
Their Lady Gaga video parodies get around 20 million hits plus and the star of those videos is...
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By Emma Kat Richardson | February 22, 2011 at 9:47 pm | No comments
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...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | February 17, 2011 at 6:15 pm | 2 comments
There are few comedians more divisive than Patrice O'Neal. In fact, the only reason he hasn't ruffled more liberal feathers than he already has, is due to his lack of widespread mainstream exposure. But that's about to change with his first hour-long special Elephant in the...
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By Jeff Havens | February 14, 2011 at 11:39 am | No comments
Release date: March 8
In case you don’t know, Jim Norton is what George Carlin would have been had Carlin not been such a sweet and sensitive guy. On his aptly-titled third album Despicable – over half of the track titles (“Penguins are Assholes,” “Ron...
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