All over the country, artists of all kinds are producing benefits to raise money for Haiti. And comedians are no different. Last week, one of our favorite clubs, Comix, where we film our interview series A Tight Five, hosted a pretty stellar night of comedy for Haiti, featuring performances by Dave Attell, Janeane Garofalo, Eugene Mirman, Wyatt Cenac, Todd Barry and more.
Also on hand was Mike Mitchell, the creator of the “I’m with Coco” poster. A signed-by-Conan version of the print was auctioned of for $1,650 on Jan. 28, the night of the show.
The venue raised $7,625 on admission to the showroom, an extra $80 for bar admission, $2,100 on auctions, $780 in live raffles and more than $1,332 in eBay auctions. In fact, there’s still more live auctions on eBay. Check them out here. And check out some photos (above and after the jump) taken by Mindy Tucker from the fundraiser.
One of Punchline Magazine’s favorite comedians Pete Dominick will be recording an album this Saturday in New York at Comix. And we highly recommend that if you are anywhere in the area, you snag yourself some tickets asap. We’ll be there for sure.
Pete, the host of SiriusXM’s political talk show Stand Up! with Pete Dominick on POTUS — that’s Sirius 110 and XM 130 — is in incredibly diverse stand-up comedian who can easily toggle between personal material to political to observational– he’s one stop shopping for all your comedy needs.
So don’t wait. You’re going to want to be part of this. Get your tickets here. And check out a few clips below of Pete in action.
During a weekend of New York Comedy Festival shows at huge theater venues like Town Hall and Carnegie Hall, there was something different happening downtown and appropriately off the radar. Doug Stanhope was doing a five-show, three-night stand at Comix.
Stanhope, a 20-year veteran of the underground comedy scene, is probably best known to people outside of his cult following as a former co-host of The Man Show. I went into the show not knowing much about the guy’s comedy, and I was completely blown away. Stanhope definitely comes from the offensive and pissed-off school of comedy. He also deals out brutal honesty, telling stories from his drink and drug-addled past (and present). Having seen a ton of comics who talk about the same things, that description makes him sound predictable. Not the case at all, and that’s what makes him so fucking funny.
I try to be open to anyone that can make me laugh, but unfortunately, a head shot of a dude in a jersey usually strikes me as kind of a red flag. I’m an idiot. Stanhope is hilarious. However many times I’ve been turned off by comics that cover similar ground, it’s been because they just don’t back up their grievances with big laughs. Stanhope does. Any short clips you’ve seen him in don’t do him justice. You have to watch him for a full set. He tricks you into thinking he’s a jackass, then catches you off guard by saying something sharp, insightful and ridiculously funny.
He’s also great at doing long bits. He’ll tell you what he thinks about a topic, and just when you think it’s about to devolve into unstructured rambling (he downed two beers over the course of his set), he drives his point home with a huge comic payoff. His punch lines aren’t “lines”; they’re machine blasts that go on and on and on.
His bit about sex, and how isn’t the most intimate thing two people can share, was so good I can’t really see anyone else having to talk about the subject ever again. I’m afraid to use quotation marks and get it wrong, but he talked about taking his friend home from the hospital after she’d had a mastectomy, and how intimate was. “After sharing that, I didn’t say, ‘Let’s take this to the next level. Let me hunch over you in a seahorse position…” His impression of a pathetic male orgasm is hilarious, and sadly accurate. I was slapping my table (my seat was too cramped for me to slap my knee).
Stanhope’s on the road into December. Do yourself a favor and see a show. His dates are on his website.
WitStream, the new Twitter-like site that focuses on the tweets of comedians, enjoyed a festive launch on Monday night at Comix in New York City. Michael Ian Black, who co-founded the site, hosted the show. He was also on-hand throughout, critiquing the live feed of his peers’ WitSream one-liners from a laptop at the side of the stage. He also gave the best explanation of WitStream I’ve heard so far: “It’s like Twitter, but without most of the people.”
The show featured stand-up from some of WitStream’s top “aristocrats.” Baron Vaughn, Morgan Murphy, Black’s collaborator Michael Showalter, Josh Fadem, the Sklar Brothers and Doug Benson delivered killer sets. All in all, it was a great kickoff for the new site. You can keep your Twitter addiction, but definitely open a tab for WitStream, which will most definitely guarantee more chuckles per minute of wasted time.
If you’ve never seen Doug Stanhope live and you live in the New York City metro area, we’re giving you an excellent opportunity to do. For you, dear readers, we’re giving away three pairs of tickets to see the living legend at Comix in one of his five shows going down this Thursday through Saturday.
Simply email us here: contest [at] punchlinemagazine [dot] com. Include the subject “STANHOPE.” The first three readers to get in touch will win a pair of tickets. In your email, please specify which show you’d like to attend: Thursday at 7:30 pm; Friday at 8 pm or 10:30 pm; or Saturday at 8 pm or 10:30 pm. You must live in the New York City area and be able to attend the show you specify.
Nothing hits the spot like a snappy one liner. Twitter, with its 140 character or less update system, has become the go-to spot for comedy fans to get frequently updated content from their favorite comedians. The only problem is, you have to sift through an awful lot of boring Tweets to get to the good stuff.
Comedian and sitcom star Michael Ian Black has tackled this problem with a new website. Witstream.com showcases the jokes, observations and nonsensical updates of the funniest comedians on Twitter.
“So often I hear people complain they’re frustrated by social networks because there’s nothing interesting about knowing what their co-workers ate for lunch,” says co-founder and CEO Lisa Cohen. “WitStream solves this problem because 100% of the content is from comedians, who write some truly hilarious and insightful stuff.”
To celebrate the launch of Witstream, its founders are holding a show in New York featuring some of the site’s contributors: Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, Pete Holmes, Josh Fadem, Morgan Murphy, and Baron Vaughn. It’s happening Nov 2 at 8 pm at Comix. Click here for tickets.
This year, Punchline Magazine is celebrating its four years online with an incredible show at Comix in New York City on Oct. 13. Lewis Black, Janeane Garofalo, Todd Barry, Christian Finnegan, Ted Alexandro, Pete Dominick and Robert Hawkins will all perform at the show, a one-night only event.
To help celebrate the anniversary, the first 75 people in the showroom will get Punchline Magazine sport bags filled with CDs from Co-sponsor Stand Up! Records, t-shirts from Rooftop Comedy and more. Tickets to this event are only $15 in advance and $20 the day of. Go here to get your tickets before they’re gone.
When Comix in Manhattan first asked Helen Hong, TV producer and stand-up comedienne, to host a show that would attract an Asian crowd, Hong was pessimistic. “An Asian comedian wouldn’t be a draw, unless they thought they might meet a mate there,” she told The New York Times.
Hong was then hit with the idea to do just that. She was familiar with the South Korean phenomenon known as “booking,” where men at a nightclub will tip a waiter to physically drag a young woman they’ve spotted over to their table. Despite acknowledging the practice is “barbaric,” Hong understands that “In most East Asian cultures, you can’t meet someone new unless you’re introduced by a third party.”
So instead of doing her usual stand-up set at Comix, Hong played the role of entertainer/matchmaker, successfully pairing up some of the singles in the crowd. The night was a success: at least one couple has told Hong that they have since fallen in love. Hong plans to expand this theme to a racially mixed crowd at Comix on Aug. 12, at a show called “Laugh Match.” There are also plans for rapid matchmaking nights for gay audiences and Jewish crowds.
If you find yourself on Punchline Magazine rather often, you’re probably familiar with our video interview series A Tight Five, wherein, Punchline Magazine editor and founder Dylan Gadino interviews well known comedians at Comix in New York. To get each episode done, a 15-20 minute raw interview is shot and then our friends at Rooftop Comedy edit it down to an entertaining five minutes.
But we’ve gotten a good amount of emails asking about the unedited versions of these interviews, if they’d ever be available to view. So we figured we’d start rolling some of those out. To begin, we thought we’d start out with our interview with Eugene Mirman.
Remember, these are uncut and done in one take. They aren’t perfect. So if they suck, it’s all Dylan’s fault. These versions are what it looks like before Rooftop Comedy lends their magic hands to make these the perfect interviews they usually are. Enjoy!
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If you’ve never seen Doug Stanhope live and you live in the New York City metro area, we’re giving you an excellent opportunity to do. For you, dear readers, we’re giving away three pairs of tickets to see the living legend at 
Nothing hits the spot like a snappy one liner. Twitter, with its 140 character or less update system, has become the go-to spot for comedy fans to get frequently updated content from their favorite comedians. The only problem is, you have to sift through an awful lot of boring Tweets to get to the good stuff.
