By John Delery | 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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By John Delery | 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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By Jake Kroeger | 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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By Carrie Andersen | 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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By Carrie Andersen | 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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By Emma Kat Richardson | 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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By Jeff Havens | 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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By Jeff Havens | 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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By John Delery | 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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