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Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival Day 2: Is Everyone Hungover?
Thursday, the Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival ramped up with even more great big name events – Dana Carvey, Maria Bamford, Reggie Watts and Chris Hardwick. And that’s a good explanation for the...
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Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival Day 3: The Power of Podcasts
The first two days of Moontower were great, but Day 3 really ramped up the awesomeness. The big name shows featured Michael Ian Black, Chelsea Peretti, Judah Friedlander and Brendon Walsh all...
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Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival Wrap-Up (Audio)
On the final day of the Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival, I set out to get some awesome audio (because, to paraphrase Barbie, “writing is hard”). And I succeeded, despite a thunderstorm of...
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Deathsquad Podcast Network Taking Un-Shitty Comedy on the Road
If you aren’t familiar with the Deathsquad Podcast Network, it was one of the first places to provide the resources for comedians to record and distribute podcasts. Deathsquad was founded by Brian...
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Pete Holmes: ‘Nice Try, The Devil’
[Note: This review includes tracks that will appear on the album/DVD available for purchase, but were edited out of the May 12 Comedy Central airing.] If you’re depressed and can’t afford therapy or...
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Christina Walkinshaw, Comedy Whistleblower
Comedians put up with a number of slights (and perceived slights) from bookers and venues all the time. Sometimes, these incidents are the kind of thing that would warrant a visit to HR in any other...
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Mike Lawrence Is the Happiest Sad Guy in Comedy
Mike Lawrence’s first album “Sadamantium” is a killer hour of comedy about nerdiness, loneliness and picking up girls “at da cluuuub.” It releases May 28, just ahead of his Comedy Central “The Half...
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The Birth of Holy Fuck’s Punk Rock Comedy Compilation
“Holy Fuck” is one of the most popular weekly comedy shows in Los Angeles. For the past three years, “Holy Fuck” has featured some of the biggest names in alternative comedy alongside talented younger...
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‘Deon Cole’s Black Box’– More than Just ‘Black Tosh’
Almost everyone I’ve mentioned “Deon Cole’s Black Box” to has responded with, “isn’t that another Tosh.0?” or “that’s just all about black culture, right?” or “oh, yeah, black Tosh.” And they could not...
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Your Password to the Comedy Party at Blind Barber
Last summer, we profiled three young comedy shows held in unconventional locations. Happily for LA comedy fans, all three shows are still going strong and even more new shows have popped up in...
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