Category: Stand-Up Comedy

And Then the Mother Fing… Wait, I’m Telling it Wrong.

Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette premiered their new film “Aristocrats” at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is primarily the telling of one joke over and over again by comics as varied… Read More

Gallagher Busts Heads! Raise Your Sheets!

Gallagher is pissed. He’s disappointed that in Comedy Central’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time, he was only 100. And in this interview with the Oregonian, he proceeds to trash all the… Read More

Git-R-Done, Bitch!

Being a victim of your success is a weird faux Chinese curse (see Dave Chappelle suffering through audiences yelling “I’m Rick James Bitch!”), but being a victim of someone… Read More

Hecklers, Do Not Cross These Picket Lines

I can’t listen to it right now (I’m on a low-fi connection this holiday), but NPR has an audio interview with Ted Alexandro and Alan Corey of the New York Comedians Coalition. The page… Read More

Comedians Unite, Demand 10 More Dollars.

Good article in the NY Times about 300 area comics founding a union to get pay raises for sets, including doubling the weekend rate from $60 to $120 and raising weekday rates from $15 to $25. While… Read More

“Birth of a Joke” Delivered, 6 lbs, 4 oz

Caught the rerun of “The Seinfeld Story” where Jerry Seinfeld asserts he knew even as he was pitching it that his sitcom wasn’t going to be about how a comic generates material. He… Read More

Despairhut

Read an interview with Eugene Mirman in the recent issue of Stay Free. In it, he describes how horrible comedy clubs are, referring to the system of going from opener to headliner “pointless and… Read More
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