By Chase Roper | July 9, 2009 at 4:04 pm | 2 comments
When stand-up comic, Chris Fox first started out in Greensboro, NC, comedy venues were hard to come find. Taking a lesson right out of the Comedians of Comedy handbook, Fox and his comedy pals started hosting their own comedy events in partnership with local punk bands.
"It's a...
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By Daniel Perlman | July 9, 2009 at 11:34 am | No comments
ABC is in the process of developing a new reality competition show, The Fast & The Funniest, where comedians will have to be "funny on the fly."
The show will feature a group of stand-ups as they race across the country competing in challenges and performances. The...
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By Chase Roper | July 8, 2009 at 1:06 pm | No comments
This comic was highly recommended to me and for good reason. Here is a clip of Johnny Pemberton sharing about his distaste toward...
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By Chase Roper | July 8, 2009 at 12:04 pm | 6 comments
I started this journal four days ago when I signed up for an intensive traveled to the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club in Los Angeles for the Kyle Cease Comedy Boot Camp. I hoped to not only learn more about the comedy industry and how to focus my comedy writing in the direction I want,...
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By Emma Kat Richardson | July 7, 2009 at 2:21 pm | No comments
For maybe the first time ever, a puppet has reached Forbes Celebrity 100 list. Well, a puppet master, to be precise. As America's top-ranking force in the world of ventriloquist-based comedy, Jeff Dunham's considerable influence as an entertainer is beginning to hold sway with...
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By Chase Roper | July 7, 2009 at 11:57 am | No comments
Just this morning, Mike Birbiglia released his second animated short - "Porno for Parents." It's fun to see a favorite bit played out in animation form. The scene of his parents holed up in the bathroom with his mom on the phone crying and his dad armed with a shotgun added...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | July 1, 2009 at 12:22 pm | No comments
When I was in Aspen a few weeks ago covering the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival I got to interview a bunch of great comics. So we'll be rolling out those interviews from time to time. Here's the first, this one with Ted Alexandro, wherein we talk about pirates, Ted's dark mind...
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By Emma Kat Richardson | July 1, 2009 at 11:03 am | No comments
Larry the Cable Guy, he of the beer-swilling, NASCAR-loving country folk crowd, will celebrate the independence of our nation with Tailgate Party, his new stand-up special. A first of its kind digital download, the show will be featured exclusively online, courtesy of Basecamp...
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By Rob Turbovsky | June 30, 2009 at 10:55 am | No comments
Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal bowed for about a minute and a half in appropriate mock theatricality as they took the stage together for a rare co-headlining show at Boston's Wilbur Theatre on June 27.
The Flight of the Conchords co-stars didn’t fill the 1,200 seat venue,...
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