We are all familiar with the old adage that “we laugh to keep from crying.” But what’s wrong with a healthy dosage of both? You’ll experience plenty of laughter — as well as some cathartic tears — while watching Chris Gethard’s new HBO special Career Suicide, a hilarious and heartbreaking one-man show framed around his failed […]
Continue ReadingWhen I heard that Comedy Central had greenlit a show called Problematic (a word often used in social justice circles), I wondered if it would be the second-coming of the short-lived The Jeselnik Offensive, a show which often pushed the boundaries of good taste for the sole purpose of seeing what it could get away […]
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 ReadingThe McElroy brothers — Justin, Travis, and Griffin — started their first family podcast in 2010 as a way of keeping in touch while living in different states. My Brother, My Brother and Me is a comedy advice podcast which skews heavily towards the comedy. “The McElroy Brothers are not experts, and their advice should […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re like me, every once in a while you stop what you’re doing completely and say to yourself “holy crap, Donald Trump is President.” It’s been over three months since his inauguration, but it still feels surreal. This is primarily because until November 8, 2016, conventional wisdom suggested that people like Donald Trump — […]
Continue ReadingFresh off Channel 101′s April 29th showcase comes the pilot of Jason Gudasz’s Somewhere in Highland Park. A near perfect feat of low-budget camera tricks and razor sharp dialogue, Gudasz and DP Christian Klein set this baby up for Aaron Kee and Brodie Reed to spike it right back down. Sitting in a sweltering all-purpose room-turned-theatre, where the sweet […]
Continue ReadingAuthor Mike Sacks is reviving a lost genre with his new book Stinker Lets Loose! Sacks, who has penned five popular comedy books, including two interview collections (2009’s And Here’s the Kicker and the 2014 New York Times bestseller Poking a Dead Frog) is now reminding readers about the forgotten, halcyon, beer-infused days of truck […]
Continue ReadingNetflix is changing the way we watch comedy specials, and the comics are doing their part too. Where once HBO and Comedy Central dominated the standup field, the streaming service has since convinced household names like Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, and Sarah Silverman to premiere their new material on a laptop screen. What’s more, Netflix […]
Continue ReadingIn her sublime new Netflix standup special, Old Baby, premiering today, Maria Bamford performs a comedy set in increasingly larger venues. What begins as a few jokes in front of a mirror progresses to a living room, onto a bowling alley, and so on, until she goes out with a bang on a big stage. […]
Continue ReadingIn her sublime new Netflix standup special, Old Baby, premiering today, Maria Bamford performs a comedy set in increasingly larger venues. What begins as a few jokes in front of a mirror progresses to a living room, onto a bowling alley, and so on, until she goes out with a bang on a big stage. […]
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