This is a story about the difference between Comedy Club Comedy and Underground Comedy
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Esther’s Follies is stepping aside the weekend of the ROT Biker Rally for The Velveeta Room’s 25th Anniversary and Comedy Festival. Over it’s colorful history since opening in 1988, the Velv has become one of the best clubs in the Southwest to ...
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Stand-up has evolved far beyond the clubs of yesteryear, known for stuffy and stingy club owners: Theaters have become viable places to watch cheap, vibrant comedy shows. But old perceptions linger. Last week, the Internet exploded when comedian Kurt Metzger took to Facebook to chastise the Upright ...
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"New York City is the Mecca of standup comedy and we, as comedians, are proud to share that tradition with you, the clubs providing comedians with a venue to perform. However, while the clubs are thriving we feel that we are not being adequately comp...
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When the Upright Citizens Brigade's East Village theater celebrated its grand opening in November 2011, major print and broadcast media outlets showed up to interview the UCB's Amy Poehler and Matt Walsh, and Fugazi's Ian MacKaye showed up, too, to r...
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St. Louis' newest comedy club is No Name Comix. Local Comedian Ben Flug and a few other pioneers had a business idea related to the growing comedy scene in St. Louis: A club owned by local comics, using local sponsors -- most of them coming from other Cherokee Street establishments -- furnished using local up-cycled materials, booking talented local comics that are as-yet undiscovered. The action word here is local.
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Restaurants receive grades from the health department and media alike. Hotels partner up with AAA.
And now Comedy Central is looking to put its unofficial official seal of approval on a comedy club near you with its new "Comedy Central Certified Club...
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Carolines on Broadway, the Hollywood Improv, and Cobb’s Comedy Club are among the venerable comedy venues that have just been given “certified” status by Comedy Central as part of its newly created Certified Club program, the cable network announced Jan. 10.
Certified comedy clubs earn the network’s seal of approval as well as opportunities for promotion.
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PORTLAND – The Comedy Connection will not reopen on Custom House Wharf, where it has operated for the last 19 years, while the future of the adjacent Porthole restaurant remains uncertain.
The Comedy Connection, the Porthole and the Harbour's Edge banquet hall were shut down by the city last month after a health inspection revealed a rat infestation, among other code violations. All three businesses were affected because they share a kitchen and a liquor license.
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