Reviews

Andrew Norelli: Cut Above Stupid

By | June 3, 2011 at 4:09 pm | No comments

If Andrew Norelli raced for a living, he’d drive a dragster instead of an Indy car. Hey, he prefers straight lines to curves. He seldom veers off the worn but proven path to laughs, but the skill to take the audience on an amusing ride from Point A to Point B makes Norelli an...

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Review: Andrew Norelli’s “Cut Above Stupid”

By | June 3, 2011 at 4:01 pm | No comments

If Andrew Norelli raced for a living, he’d drive a dragster instead of an Indy car. Hey, he prefers straight lines to curves. He seldom veers off the worn but proven path to laughs, but the skill to take the audience on an amusing ride from Point A to Point B makes Norelli an...

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Review: Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” is the best alternative to blockbuster comedies

By | May 31, 2011 at 12:55 pm | 2 comments

At nearly every theater that was playing The Hangover Part II across the country, lines looped around the theater and stretched down the street amounting to record breaking box office take over the Memorial Day Weekend. This was not the case for Woody Allen's latest film,...

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David Huntsberger: Humanitis

By | May 25, 2011 at 1:46 pm | No comments

The best comedy albums usually offer us equal parts “holy shit” moments of recognition, “oh my fuck” moments -- where the comic plants an image in your head you never, ever wanted to see -- and of course, huge laughs. David Huntsberger’s well written and structurally...

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Review: David Huntsberger’s “Humanitis”

By | May 25, 2011 at 1:25 pm | No comments

The best comedy albums usually offer us equal parts “holy shit” moments of recognition, “oh my fuck” moments -- where the comic plants an image in your head you never, ever wanted to see -- and of course, huge laughs. David Huntsberger’s well written and structurally...

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Review: Don Jamieson’s “Live and Hilarious”

By | May 19, 2011 at 1:14 pm | No comments

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...

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Amy Schumer: Cutting

By | May 17, 2011 at 10:28 pm | No comments

Amy Schumer is the kind of woman who would probably smile and maybe give you a kiss on the cheek right before kicking you in the nuts. Then she’d apologize and buy you a drink, but it wouldn’t be an expensive drink, and she wouldn’t really be sorry. That’s the flavor of...

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Review: Amy Schumer’s “Cutting”

By | May 17, 2011 at 10:23 pm | One comment

Amy Schumer is the kind of woman who would probably smile and maybe give you a kiss on the cheek right before kicking you in the nuts. Then she’d apologize and buy you a drink, but it wouldn’t be an expensive drink, and she wouldn’t really be sorry. That’s the flavor of...

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Review: Andy Ritchie’s “King-Ding-A-Ling”

By | May 16, 2011 at 1:05 pm | No comments

As if Andy Ritchie were the Mary Lou Retton of comedy, he charges down the runway, leaps headfirst into his act, and sticks the landing on the opening joke of King Ding-A-Ling, his debut CD on Stand Up! Records. He certainly does not go splat after unexpectedly and brilliantly...

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