In 2014, comedian Mo Welch posted her first comic on her @momowelch Instagram handle. It featured a simply drawn depressive named Blair and read “Spirit Airlines is my ‘Nam’” Two years later, The Daily Dot wrote a piece on Mo, the traction her Blair comics were getting in the space, and–perhaps more importantly–the inspiration behind sitting down and drawing in […]
Continue ReadingLiving Biblically, which premiered Monday night, is the newest multi-cam CBS sitcom that reinforces all of the worst stereotypes about CBS sitcoms. It centers around a white guy (Chip, played by Jay R. Ferguson) with a cushy media job (where he hangs out with his Black best friend Vince, played by Tony Rock) married to […]
Continue ReadingWomen in comedy are often seen as solitary creatures, like mountain lions or that bird that fell in love with a statue. Female comics are isolated from each other on bookings and can view each other as competition in the green room. “When I started comedy, there was always only one woman on the show,” […]
Continue ReadingIf at first you don’t recognize Jay R. Ferguson by name, you may still instantly recall him by his beard. For many it was during his days at Stan Rizzo on Mad Men — the free-spirited art director at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce who was often joined at the hip with Peggy Olson in late […]
Continue ReadingMany kids grow up with dreams of having careers in entertainment, but few will ever realize those ambitions, and the number who get to do so alongside the same friends they romanticized “Hollywood” with as adolescents is difficult to imagine. For Matt Porter, Max Azulay, and Phil Primason, childhood and high school friends, they could […]
Continue ReadingLast night, Black Hollywood was in full effect at this year’s American Black Film Festival Honors. Stars like Tracee Ellis Ross, Deon Cole, Issa Rae, Jordan Peele, Lil Rel, and much more were in attendance. The night would end up being completed when the cast of Martin took to the stage together. Martin Lawrence, Tichina […]
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Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Hayes Davenport and Sean Clements’ prickly cult podcast Hollywood Handbook is as restless as it is brilliant and consistently funny. The podcast has introduced scores of features and running jokes that it abandons when it grows tired of them, like the […]
Continue ReadingRachel Jane Andelman is a writer, performer, and coach living in the Boston area. You can visit her website here, read her here, and watch her accost strangers here. If you are in Boston on March 2nd, she’s recommends you see this. This week, Andelman talked to me about unexpected Twitter interactions, tweets vs. standup, […]
Continue ReadingAfter being incarcerated for drug trafficking at 19 and spending six years behind bars, Ali Siddiq emerged from prison with a new skill set: standup comedy. “A lot of comics will come backstage before a show and say, ‘How’s the crowd?’ The reason I never ask that is because I came from a horrible crowd. […]
Continue ReadingThe comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast […]
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