Portland -- Which three-word phrase is going to be hardest to wrest from my head in the post-Bridgetown weeks to come: "stocks and bonds" or "place on plate"? I've heard the former at least three times via former Portlander Matt Braunger. The tall, cherubic comic (his...
Quickly rising comedians Kurt Braunohler and Erik Griffin just signed deals to release their first live comedy albums, and both are doing so as two indie music record labels' first comedians. Braunohler, the host of IFC's absurd game show Bunk!, will record his debut album for...
Modern Comedian is a new web series by New York-based comic Scott Moran. Each week Scott follows a different comedian around, on-stage and off, to document the life of the -- you guessed it -- modern comedian. The debut episode features Kurt Braunohler. Between Kurt's old...
I know, I know. It’s been days and days since the Bridgetown Comedy Festival wrapped up, but I needed that time to process the adventure. I saw so many shows over the course of the four-day run that some of it gets a bit fuzzy, so I had to storyboard my weekend and pick out my...
AUSTIN -- Audiences entering Esther’s Follies on Day 2 of South By Southwest’s comedy series were greeted not with a closed curtain and dim lights, but with Marc Maron sitting in a large plush easychair onstage. “I don’t believe in fourth walls,” he said. That might...
I love that Adult Swim celebrates weird comedy as much as they do. I mean, let’s get real – Aqua Teen Hungerforce? Sealab 2021? To say they’re quirky would be an understatement. The latest in Adult Swim’s weirdness is a miniseries called The Heart, She Holler,...
If you're the type of person who thinks music videos are dead, especially since MTV and VH1 hardly play them anymore, you're mostly right. However, celebrated free-form radio host (WFMU's The Best Show), writer, director, producer and comedy expert Tom Scharpling is bringing...
One of the biggest everlasting trends of Internet videos is animals. Whether it be cats, dogs, honey badgers, unicorns, whatever. The human love of watching animals doing stuff -- anything! -- goes unmatched. Yet, a pair of new videos might prove there's a backlash brewing;...
