“It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made,” says comedian Mark Chalifoux about moving from Cincinnati to New York City.  “I was born and raised in Cincinnati, so I kind of felt it   

 Comedian Auggie Smith used to follow current events, but has kind of lost his stomach for them recently. “I can’t watch any politics anymore without getting angry,” he says. “I think it  

Comedian Mark Sweeney considers St. Louis his hometown, though he and his family didn’t settle there until he was in the eighth grade. “We moved around constantly the first 15 years of my life,”  

It’s a Thanksgiving tradition. “It is, man,” says comedian Gary Owen of his annual Thanksgiving week run at The Funny Bone on the Levee. “It’s what I hoped it would be when I came up with th  

For Dominique, going postal meant leaving a job in civil service and starting a career in comedy. Perhaps it had something to do with the postal facility she worked in, the now infamous Brentwood Faci  

 "Every joke has a victim," explains comedian Phil Palisoul. "It's called a punch line, after all. Someone's going to get it. Throughout my whole act, I victimize myself." Wallowing in feelings o  

When today’s stand-up comics list historical comedic influences, George Carlin and Richard Pryor are probably the most often mentioned of their generation. For some reason, people tend to forget abo  

By now we should have learned that a sitcom needs at least a good half-season to find its legs. It’s easy to dismiss a new show early on in its run, yet history shows that even the greatest sitcoms had mundane starts. Raising Hope might be considered such a sitcom, but, in retrospect, its early episodes are pretty solid, and it has continued to get better.    

Andi Smith is perhaps one of the more subtle stand-up comics touring today. Her soft-spoken manner belies a blunt sense of humor that’s inspired by everything from relationships to current events. Y  

It’s rare these days when a Top 10 radio hit also happens to be, arguably, one of the year’s best songs. Such is the case with Hot Chelle Rae’s “Tonight, Tonight,” easily the song of this past summer.