Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Live podcasts can be a tricky beast, particularly when they’re taped at music festivals, as tends to be the case these days. A studio is a controlled environment but a live taping involves all manner of weird variables. The audience could […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central’s newest half-hour standup series, Kevin Hart Presents: The Next Level, continues this Sunday night at 11/10c with up-and-coming Chicago comedian Taneshia “Just Nesh” Rice. Nesh is a relatively young comic, having spent just a little over five years onstage. She ran the light at her first open mic but a year and a half […]
Continue Reading@YungInstitution aka Josh lives in New York. He has a job that asks him to sign a lot of Non Disclosure Agreements and would replace him in a minute so he’s quiet about any other details. His pinned tweet is about depression and getting dick, which is a quicker sum-up than anything else. Instead of […]
Continue ReadingEdgar Wright’s newest film Baby Driver is out this week, and if early reviews are any indication, it can easily stand alongside his previously revered comedies such as Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and The World’s End. Appearing on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast this week, Edgar dithered a […]
Continue ReadingRob Huebel is maybe a quintessential “right place, right time” example for an aspiring comedian. The place was New York and the time was the late ‘90s, and Huebel was a 27-year-old “struggling wannabe comedian” who hadn’t quite found his specialty yet in the comedy world. That was until his roommate dragged him to some […]
Continue ReadingGLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) opens on a close-up of Ruth Wilder’s (Alison Brie) face at an audition giving a rousing speech that makes her look like a shoe-in for the role. The punchline, of course, is that she’s actually been reading the man’s part. Her line? “Sorry to interrupt, but your wife is on […]
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 […]
Continue ReadingOther than a mere year of overlap on Saturday Night Live (which produced one of the greatest sketches of all time, “Short Shorts for the USA”) and mostly isolated screen time in the no-one-knows-what-it-means-but-it’s-provocative Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler have never performed together in a proper two-hander. Which is no laughing matter […]
Continue ReadingBefore Jason Mantzoukas was being asked about the logistics of breaking into the comedy world, he was traveling the real world. Living for almost two years abroad on a trip funded through the Watson Fellowship, a grant that enables graduates to pursue an independent study internationally, Mantzoukas had only one restriction: he could not return […]
Continue ReadingIt seems like nobody can agree on whether to take comedy very lightly or very seriously. People get firmly locked in their respective ideological camps, proclaiming either that comedy is powerful because it’s meaningless or that it’s powerful because it contains more meaning than anything else (and indeed it’s usually “the most” of something; people […]
Continue Reading