Geoff Tate’s Got More Than Potential
When coming across new comedians, I’ve found that one of the best metrics to measure expectation is to find out who they’ve worked with. Well, when I found out that Geoff Tate had worked with Mike...
View ArticleCraig Ferguson’s ‘I’m Here to Help’: An Annotated Timeline
Opening: The title sequence features the New Wave Entertainment logo and is presumably a comedy club with a now empty beer glass being set on the table. The label is ensconced on the beerglass and...
View ArticleJim Jefferies’‘Fully Functional’: An Annotated Timeline
Jim Jefferies recorded a Netflix exclusive special called “Fully Functional“ last year. Jim is a native of Australia. Though I’ve heard good things of the Aussie comedian, I’ve never seen one of his...
View ArticleBrian Regan: ‘All By Myself’ Annotated Timeline
I come from a divided family. Some of us like white rice. Others like fried rice. It’s very complicated. But if there’s one thing we all love it’s Brian Regan. He released four CDs in seven years,...
View ArticleRalphie May’s ‘Too Big To Ignore’: Annotated Timeline
Ralphie May, literally one of the world’s biggest comedians, released a special entitled “Too Big to Ignore” last year. Besides playing off his very obvious weight, Ralphie takes on some serious...
View ArticleJosh Blue’s ‘Sticky Change’: An Annotated Timeline
I can still remember well the year Josh Blue won NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.” I turned the TV on at my friend Yellow Dart’s (because I have friends with badass names) house, and we watched his great...
View Article‘Holy Fuck’: A 47 Track Comedy Explosion
“Holy Fuck” has been a weekly event at the Downtown Independent in LA going on four years. Out of four shows from January and February this year comes a madly dense sampling resulting in a 47-track CD....
View ArticleReview: ‘Arrested Development’ Season Four
Nearly a decade ago, ”Arrested Development“ went off the air, and after a solid seven years of internet message board bemoaning, the grumbling finally paid off: Netflix exclusively produced a fourth...
View ArticleMoshe Kasher: ‘Live in Oakland’ An Annotated Timeline
It’s time for everybody’s favorite part of the week: the moment where we all sit down, turn on Netflix and pretend that reading my sarcastic, embittered comments on another human’s sarcastic,...
View ArticleThe Lonely Island: ‘The Wack Album’ Review
Comedy incorporating the sense of sound is suspicious to my discerning tastes. Certainly, I am a snob in this sense. While no man is an island, Sirs Schaffer, Samberg and Taccone make the Wackest case...
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