Comedy
BOSTON CALLING: 7 TIPS TO MAXIMIZE YOUR FEST
Consider this your insider guide to surviving the music festival without breaking a sweat.
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE 2015 DIGBOSTON STUDENT GUIDE
Keep this bookmarked through the school year, and, in the words of the patron saint of getting wild, Andrew W.K.: “Party till you puke.”
FARCE TO THE FUTURE: THREE GENERATIONS OF COMEDY FILMMAKERS RELEASE LATEST
A judge and a detective get involved as the seventh and eighth wheels, because this is that type of movie—the type of comedy they might’ve made in the ’30s, when detectives and judges were always walking into farcical scenes at the wrong time.
DIG THIS: BACKYARD STAND UP, STRANDBEESTS, AND KUNG FU SUNDAYS
Lots of great FREE EVENTS you cheap bastards!
DIG THIS: AER0NAUT, WEMF COMEDY, AND A ROARING 20’S LAWN PARTY
If that's not a winning combo we don't know what is
HAWKISH: HOWARD HAWKS’ SCREWBALL COMEDIES ARE MARKED BY ROMANTIC ANARCHY
The curiously celibate romantic action comedies of Edgar Wright and Peter Bogdanovich, the rhyming wordplay of Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson...they all owe their existence to screwballs.
TWIST AND SHOUT: CONTORTIONISTS AND MUSICIANS HIJACK THE MIDDLE EAST UPSTAIRS
Rock act Doom Lover are hosting a vaudeville show full of musicians, comedians, poets, and, yes, contortionists.
DAY THREE: PIXIES MAKE BOSTON CALLING PROUD
Boston Calling Spring 2015 wrapped up with a Pixies' homecoming return that made Boston rightfully proud.
QUEERING MECHANISM: ASIAN-AMERICAN COMEDIAN KAT EVASCO KICKS OFF NATIONAL TOUR IN BOSTON
“The show is really aimed at breaking cycles of silence,” Evasco says. “My whole artistic practice is centered around using humor to talk about difficult things.”