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Feb. 27, 2018
A Tour of the All-Women Comedy Shows of Los Angeles Women in comedy are often seen as solitary creatures, like mountain lions or that bird that fell in love with a statue. Female comics are […]
By Bethy Squires
Oct. 20, 2016
The Boiler Room’s Last Night
It felt like the longest five minutes of my life. It was my second time performing standup comedy, but my first at the appropriately-named […]
By Shane Torres
Aug. 23, 2016
Building the Philly Comedy Scene with Good Good Comedy
Google currently lists forty-two comedy venues in New York City. This dwarfs the ten results for venues in Philadelphia; of the ten, one is […]
By Bill Reick
Nov. 30, 2015
Inside New York’s Musical Comedy Boom
Musical comedy has been a popular comedic force for ages. The iconic “Weird Al” Yankovic debuted his self-titled album in 1983. And The […]
By Ben Berkon
Aug. 17, 2015
How Sea Tea Improv Built a Comedy Scene from Scratch In 2009, seven people in Hartford, Connecticut founded a comedy troupe, Sea Tea Improv, and began holding regular shows. They started with […]
By Alex Dueben
June 26, 2015
Inside Cartoon Monsoon: An Animated Variety Show Past the friendly forest, through the swamp of snacks and sweets
Stands a paper-mache clubhouse, by the beach of poison treats.
Follow the […]
By Alex Estrada
Apr. 15, 2015
Can a Mid-Sized City’s Thriving Comedy Scene Survive the LA Exodus? Grawlix’s Adam Cayton-Holland (Photo by Ryan Brackin)
If you’re a mid-level comic with a few credits under your belt, at some point you’ve […]
By Josiah Hesse
Feb. 9, 2015
Building a Comedy Scene in Austin with Sure Thing Popular Austin, Texas standup showcase, Sure Thing, packs the back-porch of the Austin Java coffeehouse every Saturday night, even in the […]
By Erica Lies
Dec. 16, 2014
How the New Movement Built a Comedy Scene from Scratch in New Orleans The MC yells, “Please, sound like a million people for…!” and sweeps his arm as he announces the name of the improv group taking over the […]
By Ryan Sparks
Dec. 9, 2014
The Premiere Before the World Premiere: Red Hot Video Fun Time In a small Mexican restaurant in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Drew Luster waits on his tacos. Things have settled at the Bat Haus, a small event space […]
By Alex Estrada
Aug. 18, 2014
Talking About the End of Chicago’s Upstairs Gallery The Upstairs Gallery started in September of 2010 as a small performance space in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood. It is now one of the […]
By Griffin Wenzler
June 23, 2014
How the Legal Marijuana Industry Is Helping Grow Denver’s Comedy Scene Comedians like Doug Benson and Stephen Colbert have been getting a lot of joke-mileage out of Colorado’s legalization of marijuana last […]
By Josiah Hesse
Apr. 23, 2014
Inside ‘The [206]’, the Most Popular Local TV Comedy in America The seeds of the most popular local TV comedy in the country were planted 25 years ago, outside a Seattle restaurant when two strangers walked […]
By Oliver Morrison
Sept. 13, 2013
Washington DC Is Building Itself an Awesome Indie Comedy Scene The Washington Post has an intriguing look at the growing indie comedy scene in Washington D.C., a city that for a long time had little more […]
By Elise Czajkowski
Sept. 11, 2013
Splitsider’s Guide to Vancouver’s Comedy Scene Live comedy, for many, is an art form that is still confined to two major centers: New York and Los Angeles. Other cities — Chicago, […]
By David MacLean
July 16, 2013
Discovering the Comedic Melting Pot in the Heart of Berlin After watching three German comics perform odd character bits with no punchlines, Alex Upatov didn’t have high hopes for the Berlin standup […]
By Natalie Shure
May 10, 2013
Saying Goodnight to Chicago’s ‘Late Live Show’ Sad news from the Windy City: after three years and more than 50 performances, one of live comedy’s most interesting experiments is coming to […]
By Abraham Riesman
Apr. 10, 2013
Looking for Comedy in Nashville “One time I took the whole crowd out to the parking lot to have a fire-breathing contest with a guy dressed like Jesus. So it was more of a […]
By Sean Maloney