Aspen National College Comedy Competition Finals

by Punchline Magazine

ASPEN, CO — The finals of Rooftop’s college competition just wrapped (it’s about 7:45 pm here). So here’s some quick thoughts.
I was lucky enough to judge two of the semi-final rounds in New York City some many weeks ago. I have to say, I didn’t expect much from those shows, except for a lot of [...]

Comedy Awards announced at Aspen RooftopComedy Festival

by Punchline Magazine

ASPEN, CO — Turns out the folks at RooftopComedy thought it interesting to hand out some comedy industry awards. It’s about 6:15 pm here in the Mountain zone and the awards presentations just wrapped at the Wheeler Opera House. The awards were voted on by representatives from RooftopComedy’s 20 partner clubs — that is, the [...]

The Aspen RooftopComedy Festival: “Rooftop After Dark”

by Dylan P. Gadino

ASPEN, CO — That final show of the night, Rooftop After Dark, showcased some of the fest’s most offbeat, crude and absurd comics. Cincinnati-based Tyrone Hawkins – small in stature, large in presence – broke the late crowd in with a series of jokes about hairy nipples, tongue bacteria and yes, folks, dreams. Dreams are [...]

The Aspen RooftopComedy Festival: “Rooftop at Large”

by Dylan P. Gadino

ASPEN, CO — The middle show last night at the Aspen RooftopComedy Festival – Rooftop at Large – showcased some of the bigger names the site has on their long list of comedian videos.
LA-by-way-of-Kansas City comic Chris Porter came to the stage first looking more like a cocksure Chris Robinson than a comic. He delivered [...]

The Aspen RooftopComedy Festival: “Best and Brightest”

by Dylan P. Gadino

ASPEN, CO — Since its launch nearly three years ago, San Francisco-based RooftopComedy.com has been the little comedy site that could. They’ve made a name for themselves by hosting and maintaining thousands of hours of exclusive stand-up comedy clips from comedy clubs across the country.
And now they’ve created the coolest little comedy festival that could. [...]

‘Carol Burnett’ star Harvey Korman dies at 81

by Bill Bergmann

In honor of Harvey Korman’s passing, we offer you one of his classic scenes from Blazing Saddles.

Last Comic Standing; Season six, episode two: live blog

by Punchline Magazine

Hey, readers: you’re going to want to keep hitting refresh or reload. We’re going to keep all the updates in one entry this week. We’ll see how that works out.
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The LCS crew continued the freak show at the start of the show, showing the more colorful characters. Entertaining, yes– if you have no emotional connection [...]

This weekend: the Aspen RooftopComedy Festival

by Punchline Magazine

Starting tomorrow and ending Sunday in lovely Aspen, CO, the inaugural run of the Aspen RooftopComedy Festival is going down. A lot of you will remember that there was a long-running, pretty huge comedy fest in Aspen called the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. As of last year, it has gone bye-bye.
But stand-up video site RooftopComedy [...]

Stand-up video of the day: Lenny Marcus

by Punchline Magazine

Did you know you could buy a coffin at Costco? Comedian Lenny Marcus has done the research for you. Check it out.

Lebanese comedian creating a thriving stand-up scene

by Dylan P. Gadino

While most of us know that stand-up comedy is an American tradition (having been invented here) its reach is worldwide. And when I say worldwide, I’m not just talking about American comics making a dent across the sea (read: Chris Rock breaking UK comedy show attendance records) or about the thriving scenes in England or [...]

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