Comedians

Taking the Stage for Improvisational Comedy

Danny Groner | Posted 01.06.2009 | Entertainment


Danny Groner

I enrolled in a free introduction to improv course at a local theater this week to spend time working with talented performers.

Ebony and Irony: Think Critically, or Hope?

Kelly Carlin-McCall | Posted 12.10.2008 | Entertainment


Kelly Carlin-McCall

It isn't that hope or irony are wrong, what's wrong is that we think we need to pit them against each other, and that they can't co-exist. The old lines in the sand are being erased on every level.

Free Zarganar

Buddy Winston | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home


Buddy Winston

Popular Burmese comic Zarganar has received a 45 year prison sentence by the Burma government for violating the Electronics Act, which regulates elec...

Thank You, Comedians!

Mike Bonifer | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics


Mike Bonifer

In the Age of Irony, there is no such thing as just a pig. It's what kind of joke you make about the pig that gets your point across. Its your mega-pig that counts.

Barack Obama: No Laughing Matter?

New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media


What's so funny about Barack Obama? Apparently not very much, at least not yet. On Monday, The New Yorker magazine tried dipping its toe into broad s...

I Want to Be a Comedian, But I'm Worried I Don't Loathe Myself Enough

Alex Remington | Posted 03.21.2008 | Entertainment


Alex Remington

Neuroses aren't funny in themselves unless you can sell them -- no one really likes to be around people who are cripplingly neurotic, unless the social and mental pratfalls caused by their painfully miswired brain also happen to be hilarious.