Comedy

Lead Photo Funny Face

John Katsilometes | Thu, Nov 19, 2009 (midnight)

Quality time with Carrot Top, mass of contradictions.

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Lead Photo From Intel to the Apollo: Dan Nainan leaves the nerd lab behind

Allison Duck | Thu, Nov 12, 2009 (11:53 a.m.)

The Mac vs. PC bubble wrap guy is "platform agnostic." Guess who's a Mac.

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Lead Photo Three questions with comedian Lily Tomlin

Julie Seabaugh | Tue, Nov 3, 2009 (3:03 p.m.)

Lily Tomlin (and Ernestine) tries not to take herself too seriously, but don't tell the Academy that.

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Lead Photo A “Mork and Mindy” childhood and advice from George Wallace

Allison Duck | Wed, Oct 14, 2009 (12:56 p.m.)

Comedian Don Barnhart could have easily ended up in the military, “peeling potatoes and cleaning latrines.” Instead, thanks to a childhood watching Robin Williams and some advice from George Wallace, he spends his days in Las Vegas telling jokes.

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Lead Photo Building an empire of Hot Tamales

Sarah Feldberg | Fri, Sep 11, 2009 (2:33 p.m.)

“I hope that my husband never reads this,” says comedienne Kiki Melendez, chuckling as she explains the feeling of finishing a great show, “but it’s better than an orgasm.”

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Lead Photo Bill Cosby’s stand-up statistics

Julie Seabaugh | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 (midnight)

0: Similarly legendary comics who unspool spellbinding, self-deprecating stories with such authority, originality or world-weary wisdom.

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Lead Photo (More than) three questions with comedian Bryan Bruner

Allison Duck | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)

Bryan Bruner, former host at the LA Comedy Club at Trader Vic’s, left Las Vegas for the bright lights and bigger options of New York City. Now, he's back for a night of laughs.

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Lead Photo A very early morning in the life of Gabriel Iglesias

Sarah Feldberg | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 (3:43 p.m.)

America has a weight problem, and we like talking about it. So too does comedian Gabriel Iglesias, but he’s got his own terminology to describe what until this year were the five levels of fatness: big, healthy, husky, fluffy and damn!

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Lead Photo Not in the cards

Richard Abowitz | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 (midnight)

For two nights recently, an interesting and confusing group of celebrities was brought together at Town Square’s Shear Madness theater to create an interesting and confusing entertainment experiment.

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Lead Photo Gabriel Iglesias: fabulously fluffy

Allison Duck | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 (midnight)

From All That to headlining his own gigs, comedian Gabriel Igleasis has kept it fluffy and of course, funny.

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Lead Photo Whose beer is it anyway?

Allison Duck | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 (midnight)

Second City alums and other local actors and comedians have breathed some life into the local improv scene with their new Whose Line-esque venture at The Shear Madness Theater, Free Beer! The Improv Show.

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Lead Photo Bringing ’em back together

Rick Lax | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 (midnight)

Carrot Top is still standing, still inventing and still performing prop comedy to sold-out crowds at the Luxor. Only one other prop comic has ever reached (and arguably surpassed) that level of success: Gallagher.

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Lead Photo Chatting with Artie Lange

Julie Seabaugh | Thu, Jun 25, 2009 (midnight)

"I had a bad cocaine problem in the ’90s. The last five years have been heroin. Opiates and booze. I think I’ve gotten to the point probably where I got with coke."

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Lead Photo Chelsea Handler mouths off

Jennifer Grafiada | Thu, Jun 18, 2009 (midnight)

Chelsea chats about her least-favorite celebs, lovin' bad boys, and growing up with a Mormon mama.

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Lead Photo The Flight of the Conchords show at the Joint on May 23 was so hard rock that …

Sarah Feldberg | Thu, May 28, 2009 (midnight)

Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie began the show wearing boxes on their heads and mini-disco balls on their crotches—for lighting purposes only, of course.

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The Jaded Kiss

The bar is open! Or rather, back open. Adjacent to Dos Caminos at Palazzo, itty bitty Fusion Mixology Bar has gotten itself some fresh new beats and mixology talent as ...
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