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 Tompkins on his Podcast. Either way, her unique brand of […]

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 his short series The Urban Monkey Murray Foote has […]

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 design. André, whose previous work on Don’t Trust the B— […]

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 “How Do I Land?” stunt was part of a […]

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 debut on IFC, the show struck a nerve. The “Dream […]