Kate Berlant popped onto my radar when Denver comedy troupe The Grawlix flew her in for their monthly showcase, but it wasn’t until I saw her at last year’s inaugural High Plains Comedy Fest...
We here at Chicken Scratch have had a gangbusters 2014 so far. Steve Heisler took over as co-anchor on Weekend Update, Julie Seabaugh has been writing articles for the Illuminati, Matthew Love ea...
As consummate professionals and heart-warming family types, we have no choice but to take the next couple weeks off and celebrate various religious traditions and alcohol-centered rituals in the ...
A sold-out crowd greeted Reggie Watts’ headlining performance on the final night Denver’s inaugural High Plains Comedy Festival. Photo by Evan Semon, heyreverb.com. As our Steve Heisler poi...
I probably didn’t listen to your album, and I’m incredibly sorry. Compiling year-end comedy lists is simultaneously the most and least fun thing I do all year. It’s satisfying to be prese...
The multi-million dollar media blitz heralding the new Hobbit movie has likely made you unbelievably sick of hearing about it, so allow me to take a different path. Namely, one that deflates the ...
My laminate blinds Tig Notaro. From the spiral staircase at the back of the Théatre Sainte-Catherine, a guy calmly, repeatedly says something incomprehensible about feces. A water bottle rolls a...
Taylor Ketchum co-hosts new biweekly show Hot Crowd , along with Joe Zimmerman and Jono Zalay , Wednesday at Over the Eight in Williamsburg. From college football star to homeless heroin addict...
Epix documentary The Improv: 50 Years Behind the Brick Wall – featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Silverman and more – debuts tonight at 8 Eastern. Founder Budd Friedman was kind en...
Watching Doug Benson smoke pot on his video-podcast Getting Doug With High makes my lungs hurt. Dude barely takes a breath between joints, bowls, and bong rips, encouraging his comedian-actor bu...
“My friends are getting book deals from Twitter and I’m slow dancing with a robot for a case of free salsa. Everything’s just fucking grand.” – Kyle Kinane, a great Twitter warrior T...
We could say something here about how we meant to put this up on Monday and regretfully inform you we won’t be posting during Thanskgiving week, thus depriving you of your incisive comedy writi...
The proliferation of ads featuring cars wrapped in giant red bows means the holiday season is upon us, and what better way to simulate the warm familiarity of a yule log DVD than by listing my fa...
Snippets of my favorite bits of comedy spin through my mind all the time. So when I seek refuge in familiar laughs, I don’t generally sit to watch the entirety of Ghostbusters or read Cat’s C...
The other night I had the lonely bug. So I went out to this bar. I see a beautiful woman alone. I’m thinking, “She’s alone; I’m alone. Why not annoy the shit out of her?” So I walk over...
Thanks to the Internet and the exponential rise of the tech curve, comedy is easier than ever to produce and distribute. There is more now than ever before, not as much as there will be tomorrow....
This past weekend, stand-up Bill Burr made a tour stop at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia; if comedy connoisseurs, or even fans of heckling videos, felt their Spidey-Sense tingling on Saturday,...
(Drysdale, left, with Susan Messing) “Why is our ego so fucking fragile, that something that happens to someone else, has anything to do with us at all?” Rebecca Drysdale, a brilliant imp...
Most of us have fantasized about the stereotypical dream job where we slack off for a few hours each day, eat junk food, smoke pot, masturbate, play video games, and otherwise indulge in the sort...
Photo: Mark Davis It’s only been a little more than a week since the premiere of the internet-obsessed, late night game show @midnight, and I’ve already received an e-mail from Comedy Centr...