"Eat More Butts" chants the audience with a vigor that belies the content of their chant. This is another episode of The Chris Gethard Show: A public access trip through improv insanity set to a live call-in show beat. Gethard, a longtime UCB alum has...
Read More
You may remember Jen Kirkman from that one drunken night when she told the story of Frederick Douglass on Comedy Central's Drunk History. Or, maybe you remember Jen talking about being an aspiring child actress in Boston during her many phone calls with Paul F...
Read More
You'll never mistake a Sam Simmons show from any other comedian, unless that other comedian happens to wear loaves of bread on his feet and don an astronaut suit during his show. Simmons, a veteran of Australia's entertainment scene with cult shows such as Problems and...
Read More
Describing Eric André's comedy ends up being a lot like watching the opening credits for his show: a confused jumble of comedy snippets cobbled together into a crazy quilt. (Visit his site to get an idea of what that's like.) And that's 100 percent by...
Read More
You may have become aware of Kurt Braunohler when you logged into Reddit and saw a photo of a sky written message that simply read, "How Do I Land?" but behind the clean-cut host of Bunk and LA's Hot Tub lies a delightful comedic mind. The...
Read More
Portlandia is the little show that could. It's a show that, on paper, probably doesn't have mass appeal, as it touches on some very specific characters and situations that could be too narrow for a mass audience. And yet, even before it had made its...
Read More
Scott Aukerman and I recently spoke about his Mr. Show days. Since then, Aukerman has built an empire: Earwolf Media produces not only some of the most popular podcasts with celebrity hosts (Including flagship Comedy Bang Bang, which Aukerman hosts once a week), but also...
Read More
In music, some places are great incubators: The Factory, STAX Records, Sub Pop. In comedy it is no different. In the late 1990s, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross created one of the most influential sketch comedy shows of all time, Mr. Show. They had lots...
Read More
"Charming nonsensical nonsequitrs" might be the best way to describe the stand-up comedy of Brody Stevens, the star of Comedy Central's new show Enjoy It! No two performances are ever the same. He manically runs from topic to topic rhapsodizing on Starbucks Trentas and segueing...
Read More
Stand-up comedian Greg Behrendt is one of the strangest beneficiaries of the Sex and the City effect that dominated late '90s/early '00s pop culture. After working as a script consultant on that show, he co-authored the landmark self-help book He's Just Not That Into You....
Read More