Dec. 20, 2017
Talking Storytelling and Standup with Selena Coppock It’s a great time to be a standup with both a killer persona and writing chops, and Selena Coppock knows a lot about both. The Massachusetts […]
Sept. 6, 2017
Why Vic Berger Is the Perfect Satirist for the Trump Era Tom Lehrer once said “I don’t want to satirize George [W.] Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them.” Perhaps even more than with Bush, […]
June 20, 2017
What It’s Like to Take Steve Martin’s Comedy MasterClass You must have seen it: the commercial/trailer for “Steve Martin Teaches Comedy.” Facebook tells me it surfaced in early March, when my brother […]
Jan. 26, 2017
The Dystopian ’90s Comedy That’s Disturbingly Relevant 20 Years Later
A divisive refugee crisis. Tensions between state and federal government. Racial conflicts pitting the U.S. public against each other. […]
Aug. 22, 2016
What Makes Historical Comedy Tick?
Comedy based around history is having a moment. Podcasts, sitcoms, web series and sketches are looking backwards, sometimes hundreds of years […]
