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SALMON FOR THE HEADLINERS

Written by DENNIS MALER Posted June 5, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy, Eats, LIFESTYLE

Recommendations from the comics who grub in places week in and week out

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy, Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: Boston, CitySide Comedy, Food, humor, stand up, standup, Unscene Comedy

ANJAN BISWAS AND THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF COMEDY AND PUZZLES

Written by DENNIS MALER Posted April 18, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy

"A large chunk of escape room clientele is corporate team building, so every day I meet people my age with mortgages and 401Ks while my coworkers and I bonk each other on the head with plastic swords and talk about weird online sex communities."

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy Tagged With: Anjan Biswas, Boston, Boston Comedy, Cleveland Circle, escape room, stand up, standup

STATE OF THE BOSTON COMEDY UNION

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted May 25, 2016 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy, FEATURES, Specials

Seven comics. Two hours. One historic summit on the state of stand-up comedy in the Hub.

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy, FEATURES, Specials Tagged With: alt comedy, BINJ, BINJ Arts, Boston, boston calling, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, comedy arts, Corey Rodrigues, Dan McCarthy, Ding Ho, John Paul Rivera, Kelly MacFarland, Lamont Price, Massachusetts, Peter Martin, Rob Crean, SOMERVILLE, stand up, standup, Will Noonan

INTERVIEW: JEN KIRKMAN ON DRUNK HISTORY, CHELSEA HANDLER, AND NOT HAVING A SHOW SET IN BOSTON

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted August 28, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy

"Wouldn’t you rather see Chelsea Handler with her top off then Seth Rogen one more time?"

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy Tagged With: #freethenipple, Amy Poehler, Chelsea Handler, comedy central, dr. katz, drunk history, funny or die, gloria steinem, jen kirkman, Margaret Cho, miley cyrus, seth rogen, stand up, The Sinclair, winona rider

INTERVIEW: TJ MILLER ON SILICON VALLEY, PODCASTS, AND MR. MUCUS

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted June 1, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy

It’s not really a night out in Boston unless you see at least one fistfight over the weekend, right?

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy Tagged With: actor, bertram, big head, brain surgery, cash levy, cashin in with tj miller, dinesh, frontal lobe, gavin, get him to the greek, HBO, jared, mike judge, morning tv, mucinex, nelson, podcast, richard, silicon valley, stand up, tj miller, tumor, yogi bear 3d

PAL’N AROUND: GET READY FOR INDIA’S MOST INTELLIGENT COMIC

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted April 1, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy

"We just want validation. We just want the Americans to think, 'Oh, they fucking love us!'”

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy Tagged With: Anuvab Pal, bangalore, bollywood, British, comic, gandhi, global satarists, India!, Jeb Bush, Laugh Boston, New York Times, Reuters, stand up, SXSW, the empire, Wesleyan University

WRIGHT STUFF: COMEDY LEGEND STEVEN WRIGHT ON LOUIS C.K., LAUGHING, AND DREADING BOSTON2024

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted March 14, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy

On the prospect of the a 2024 Boston Summer Olympics: "It's like really really expensive vandalism."

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy Tagged With: #Boston2024, big dig, comedy connection, don gavin, emerson college, fx, george carlin, giggles, half baked, harvard squre, jimmy smith, kevin meaney, lenny clarke, Louis C.K., mike donovan, mike mcdonald, natural born killers, Olympics, paula poundstone, Saugus, stand up, steve sweeney, steven wright, the aristocrats, wilbur theatre, Woody Allen

INTERVIEW: DEMETRI MARTIN COMES TO THE WILBUR

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted March 2, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy

I’m not old, but something weird happens on the road [that makes you] know the spots you like, but in a bad way. You’re like “I’ve been here before, I remember that." If I have time I try to go to the museums to feel like I’m doing something, and not just eating.

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy Tagged With: ang lee, big white pad, boom box, brookline college, cam neely, celtics, comedy central, demetri martin, Eugene Mirman, flight of the conchords, Guitar, Harvard Book Store, lewis black, segments, seminary, special, stand up, woodstock, zack galifanakas

UN-QUIET WYATT: WYATT CENAC ON SNOWY BOSTON, BLACK HISTORY MONTH, AND JOHN OLIVER

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted February 25, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy

I’ve nothing but nice things to say about Boston crowds. I have nothing but terrible things to say about your sports teams.

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy Tagged With: bill blumenreich, black history month, comedy central, david cross, Deflategate, hits, john oliver, johnny d's uptown, larry willmore, nike, snow, stand up, the daily show with jon stewart, Tom Brady, wilbur theatre, Wyatt Cenac

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