In the days after you first broke through London on the express and found the true country with the poppies and the rains and the Forbidden Forest, where the half-giant Hagrid cabined as a kindly vagrant, in those first days before the great unvirgining of the War, if you could keep from making too many […]
Continue ReadingFinally, with an episode that’s “like, so gay, dude” and that doesn’t fucking care, and that features one of the most lovingly crafted and executed cameos in the show’s history, Saturday Night Live has found its best current self. Political parody is — shocker!! — super hard to pull off at all, let alone week […]
Continue ReadingJoe DeRosa’s new one hour Comedy Central special You Let Me Down premieres tonight at midnight. Filmed at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, the special showcases DeRosa’s gripes with achievers, Tinder, golf, and the state of Arizona, just to mention a few. But beyond his signature opinionated complaints, DeRosa opens up about his own […]
Continue ReadingWe are once again firmly entrenched in Hollywood’s favorite time of year: award season. As a nation we will thrill and speculate who will get the gold and whose hands will be left cold©. Well, a mere 19 years ago in March of 1998, Oscar fever hadn’t just swept America, it had seeped into outer […]
Continue ReadingMelissa Lozada-Oliva is a Guatolombian nationally recognized & touring spoken word poet. She has been featured on Button Poetry, Bustle, the Guardian, Huffington Post, Glamour Magazine, & her mom’s Facebook statuses. She is a 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion, a Brenda Moosey Video Slam winner & the author of the chapbooks Plastic Pájaros & rude […]
Continue ReadingMelissa Lozada-Oliva is a Guatolombian nationally recognized & touring spoken word poet. She has been featured on Button Poetry, Bustle, the Guardian, Huffington Post, Glamour Magazine, & her mom’s Facebook statuses. She is a 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion, a Brenda Moosey Video Slam winner & the author of the chapbooks Plastic Pájaros & rude […]
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 ReadingLots of comedians I follow on Twitter haven’t joked in months, and it’s not because they don’t funny ideas. It’s because of articles like this. We thought we’d made progress these last eight years. Things weren’t perfect; we knew they never would be, but they were improving — at a rate faster than I’d seen in […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to The Second City Archives, in which we post an exclusive clip each week of some of comedy’s biggest superstars performing early in their careers on the legendary Chicago stage. Second City has generously given us a glimpse into their extensive archive of live performances, and over the coming weeks we’ll be sharing some […]
Continue ReadingAfter doing comedy in Boston for a year, Jen Kirkman made the move to New York City, where from 1998 to 2002 she performed anywhere she could get stage time, including laundromats, lofts, and a spot in Long Island dubbed “The Worst Comedy Club” by Jerry Seinfeld. Last year Kirkman returned to NYC’s Bowery Ballroom […]
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