To celebrate today’s release of the 500th episode of Comedy Bang! Bang!, The Daily Beast posted a great new oral history of the show and its journey from live show to podcast to TV show on IFC. The oral history features quotes from Scott Aukerman, Andy Daly, Lauren Lapkus, Paul F. Tompkins, Jason Mantzoukas, James […]
Continue ReadingJudd Apatow has one of the most impressive comedy resumes of anyone, anywhere. His Apatow Productions has produced and developed the television series Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Girls, Love and Crashing, he has directed the hit movies The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, This Is 40 and Trainwreck, and produced another dozen smash comedies […]
Continue ReadingThe penultimate performer on Comedy Central’s Kevin Hart Presents: The Next Level (Sunday at 11/10c) is the LA by way of Sacramento comic BT Kingsley. Kingsley has been at it for 12 years, paving his own way, resourcefully hustling to stay busy and relevant. He’s an only child, which means he was born with a […]
Continue ReadingThe penultimate performer on Comedy Central’s Kevin Hart Presents: The Next Level (Sunday at 11/10c) is the LA by way of Sacramento comic BT Kingsley. Kingsley has been at it for 12 years, paving his own way, resourcefully hustling to stay busy and relevant. He’s an only child, which means he was born with a […]
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 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 ReadingDanny Lobell has done some strange things for money. Running a hairless cat breeding business, selling Jackie Mason’s cassette tapes on Broadway, starting a hipster egg company with his Ecuadorian gangster neighbor — all this and more will form the subject of his upcoming one-man Edinburgh Fringe show Broke as a Joke starting August 4th, coinciding […]
Continue ReadingDanny Lobell has done some strange things for money. Running a hairless cat breeding business, selling Jackie Mason’s cassette tapes on Broadway, starting a hipster egg company with his Ecuadorian gangster neighbor — all this and more will form the subject of his upcoming one-man Edinburgh Fringe show Broke as a Joke starting August 4th, coinciding […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. In times of trouble and turmoil, I have found comfort and solace in the soothing, eternally reassuring voices on NPR. I don’t know how to drive, so I do not listen to NPR while driving to and from work, as most […]
Continue ReadingDylan Brody started his stand-up career in New York City while still a teenager in the early 1980s, performing on multiple TV showcases, writing monologue jokes for Jay Leno when Leno was still just guest-hosting The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and he has performed around the world. In more recent years, you may have seen […]
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