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Howard Stern + Opie & Anthony = Sirius-XM Merger gets green light
by Bill Bergmann
March 24, 2008
The Justice Department approved the merger of Sirius and XM Satellite Radio on Monday, saying the deal was unlikely to hurt competition or consumers.
So what does this mean for comedy fans? We’ll have to see. But the thought of Howard Stern & Opie and Anthony in one place will please many fans.
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Comedian looking to establish a credible stand-up comedy scene in Lebanon
by Punchline Magazine
March 24, 2008
Lebanese comedian Nemr Abou Nassar has given himself a monumental task: creating a well-respected stand-up comedy scene in his country. Nassar is part of a small but growing comedy circuit in the tiny nation, bordered by Syria, Israel and the Mediterranean Sea.
According to Lebanon’s Daily Star, the The full-time insurance broker has some high [...]
Monday stand-up video: Bridget Smith
by Punchline Magazine
March 24, 2008
Comedian Bridget Smith loves kids, especially the spoiled ones from Manhattan. Wait, no she doesn’t. Check it out.
Stand-up comedy book to become film: Carlin, Martin, Pryor featured
by Punchline Magazine
March 22, 2008
Oscar-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler bought the rights to the recently published Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America and is planning to produce a documentary version of the book. Comedy legends George Carlin, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor and more will will be featured in the film.
From Variety:
Like the book, the documentary [...]
NYC Underground Comedy Festival is more about quality, not quantity, in 2008
by Punchline Magazine
March 21, 2008
Organizers of this year’s New York City Underground Comedy Festival announced today their intentions to scale back the amount of festival shows and up the quality of the participating comedians.
“We still want to present new, quality faces to the industry along side established comedy veterans, however we want to do it in a more targeted [...]
PunchlineMagazine.com hot shows of the week: March 22 - March 27
by Punchline Magazine
March 21, 2008
Kevin Pollak: 3/22 - Hilarities - Cleveland, OH
Auggie Smith: 3/22 - Funny Bone - Springfield, Ill
Paul Mooney: 3/23 - Carolines - NYC, NY
Drew Hastings: 3/23 - Cracker’s - Indianapolis, IN
Ian Bagg: 3/26 - Improv - Washington, DC
Bob Goldthwait: 3/27 - Tommy T’s - Pleasanton, CA
John Pinette: 3/27 - Punchline - Atlanta, GA
Marc Maron: 3/27 [...]
Friday stand-up video: Matt Braunger
by Punchline Magazine
March 21, 2008
Comedian Matt Braunger is finally speaking up about one of our country’s biggest problems: owls. Check it out.
It’s Danny Lobell Show Friday: God’s Pottery, more!
by Punchline Magazine
March 21, 2008
Today on The Danny Lobell Show 1-4 p.m. ESTS at comicalradio.com and cringehumor.com: God’s Pottery, Stand Up! Records founder Dan Schlissel and more. Be sure to tune in early to hear the Punchline Magazine Weekly Wrap Up.
For now, check out Doug Stanhope’s pre interview from his visit to the Danny Lobell Show last year.
Phil Mazo: Pervert
by Dylan P. Gadino
March 20, 2008
The bulk of the material on Pervert is no-doubt cringe-worthy, but comedian Phil Mazo wraps it up in such a smartly written, deftly constructed package that by the end of his nearly 40-minute set you can’t help but like him– regardless of how much of a sick fuck he is. In fact, he brings a light-hearted, almost highbrow tone to cringe comedy.
And anyway, “sick fuck” is a relative term; he’s no Jim Norton; but he’s also not the type of comic with whom you’d want to pop your stand-up cherry– unless you have an open mind, and more importantly, an advanced sense of humor.
The title of the New Jersey comic’s debut album understandably leads you to believe Mazo relies heavily on sex humor to grab laughs from his audience. But while he peppers the concept of sexual deviance throughout, it’s certainly not a crutch for the young comedian.
Instead of marrying the narrow definition to the word, “pervert,” you know, the guy who watches a wee too much porn, who, when outing about dons “that weird porn thousand-yard stare” as Marc Maron calls it, Mazo embraces the idea that there could be perversion in all things– that “perversion” happens when a change is made to whatever is considered normal.
Thankfully, Mazo knows perversion is a good thing. And he knows that part of the fun of being perverse is to creep people out, like when he explains to the Minnesota crowd that he’s not impressed with strip clubs’ constant marketing cry of, “Live Girls! Live Girls!”
“You wanna do business?” Mazo asks. “Show me a dead girl. I’ll pay money to see that.”
Even when touching on contemporary comedy biggie topics like MySpace, he’s refreshingly original: “Ladies, if you’re on MySpace, don’t write in your profile that you’re down to earth and then have a picture of your breast hanging out. You’re not down to earth; you’re a money-grubbing whore.”
And when he does delve into his faux sexist theories, he doesn’t over perform or weigh down his jokes with excessive cursing or otherwise shocking language. Instead, Mazo’s version of boys-and-girls-are-different comedy sounds like this: “Girls are so sensitive. I was about to double-team this girl with a friend of mine and she’s like, “Do you guys like me?” And I’m like, “Sweetheart, we’re about to double-team you. Of course we don’t like you.”
But the highest point of Pervert is when Mazo absurdly (or is it absurd?) draws likeness between the famous I Love Lucy chocolate assembly line scene and an interracial blowjob. You’ll never look at Lucy the same way.
For more info or to buy the album, check out philmazo.com.
Check out Phil Mazo videos on ComedySpace.
Thursday Stand-up video: Bonnie McFarlane
by Punchline Magazine
March 20, 2008
Comedian Bonnie McFarlane has jumped on the baby bandwagon. Check it out.
