"Are you good?" Marc Maron asks the question sincerely after I enter his hotel room in Midtown Manhattan, catching the comedian amid a day full of back-to-back phone interviews with the media. Not "Are we good?" nor the colloquial "We good?" that has... [Read More]

After being fired by her agent for writing a crappy book, self-confessed “praise junkie” Mara Altman realizes her dreams of literary celebrity are, let’s say, premature. So she turns boldly, somewhat crazily, to standup comedy. [Read More]

Marc Maron is a very busy man these days and he’s showing no signs of slowing down. On April 30th he will release a new memoir, Attempting Normal. It’s not the comedian’s first foray into book writing, he released a book back in 2001 called Jerusalem Syndrome which was an adaptatio... [Read More]

Creating laughter is, of course, a comedian’s first goal. And for consumers of comedy, just laughing as a response to the action on stage or on screen or in a book is perfectly ok— that is, for the casual comedy observer. But for many of us a bit mor... [Read More]

"I didn't want to let Lorne down." That's Darrell Hammond, the longest-tenured member ever on Saturday Night Live, telling CNN in a new interview about how he answered the call of SNL's Lorne Michaels to perform his celebrity and political impersonat... [Read More]