"This Too Shall Suck," a solo show by the comic Matt Graham, is funny, oddball and occasionally awkward.
According to urban legend, the greatest basketball players are always the virtuosic playground stars who squandered talent that can be endlessly mythologized. If only So-and-So didn’t get injured or fall prey to drugs or whatever other tragic flaw, he would have been, the story goes, better than Michael Jordan. Similar stories float around the comedy world, but since the shelf life of a j...
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the 5th Annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival will take place September 13 - 16 2012 at the Bell House and Union Hall.
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NYC comedy club, The Creek and The Cave is turning 10 years old and they’re going to throw a party on Saturday, August 25th to celbrate. To top off the night of celebration Colin Quinn will deliver the keynote of the celebration. “Colin’s work on our stage this summer was such an i...
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Kevin Hart, Bill Maher, Robin Williams and Aziz Ansari are among the funnymen who will be featured at this year’s New York Comedy Festival, its organizers announced on Tuesday. The five-day festival, which is produced by Carolines on Broadway in association with Comedy Central, will kick off its ninth year on Nov. 7, beginning with a Next Big Thing event at the Paley Center for Media and an interview with Ricky Gervais, in conversation with John Hodgman, at Town Hall.
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What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they're comedians? No, that's not it. It is a fact, though, that America's biggest city is also its...
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Every time I walk up the stairs at the West Fourth Street subway stop on my way to the Comedy Cellar, I find myself bouncing from one leg to the other, the way that Louis C. K. does on those steps in the intro to his popular summer series on FX. Call it the Louie shuffle. Once at street level, I look around, and the first things I often see are ghosts.
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The four members of the NYC sketch comedy group Pangea 3000 are going their separate ways, at least for the time being.
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For the first time in 14 years, Emmy winner Jerry Seinfeld will present full performances of his signature stand-up comedy in New York City.
Seinfeld will perform five stand-up shows – one in each New York City borough – on five Thursday nights this fall.
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Do you live in NYC and enjoy the smug satisfaction that comes from seeing something cool before anyone else? Of course you do. Well, Splitsider is offering you a chance to do just that, as we're hosting a free preview screening of Celeste and Jesse Forever, starring Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones, ...
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Registration for the She-Devil Comedy Festival is almost done! The festival takes place October 24-28 in NYC and the deadline is August 1st. (Submit by July 22 and save $20). Please forward this to any female comedians you know that may be interested!
The She-Devil Comedy Festival seeks to honor and reward the artists that most personify The Art of Comedy, while celebrating and helping further the long tradition of women in comedy.
Created by the same people behind Laughing Skull and Laug...
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