Recommendations from the comics who grub in places week in and week out
ANJAN BISWAS AND THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF COMEDY AND PUZZLES
“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.”
STATE OF THE BOSTON COMEDY UNION
Seven comics. Two hours. One historic summit on the state of stand-up comedy in the Hub.
INTERVIEW: JEN KIRKMAN ON DRUNK HISTORY, CHELSEA HANDLER, AND NOT HAVING A SHOW SET IN BOSTON
“Wouldn’t you rather see Chelsea Handler with her top off then Seth Rogen one more time?”
WRECK’S IN EFFECT: “TRAINWRECK” WRAPS ITSELF UP WITH UNCHARACTERISTIC TIDINESS
The whole audience leans forward and asks, “Why?” And the best that Trainwreck can offer seems to be, “Why not?”
INTERVIEW: TJ MILLER ON SILICON VALLEY, PODCASTS, AND MR. MUCUS
It’s not really a night out in Boston unless you see at least one fistfight over the weekend, right?
PAL’N AROUND: GET READY FOR INDIA’S MOST INTELLIGENT COMIC
“We just want validation. We just want the Americans to think, ‘Oh, they fucking love us!’”
WRIGHT STUFF: COMEDY LEGEND STEVEN WRIGHT ON LOUIS C.K., LAUGHING, AND DREADING BOSTON2024
On the prospect of the a 2024 Boston Summer Olympics: “It’s like really really expensive vandalism.”
INTERVIEW: DEMETRI MARTIN COMES TO THE WILBUR
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.
UN-QUIET WYATT: WYATT CENAC ON SNOWY BOSTON, BLACK HISTORY MONTH, AND JOHN OLIVER
I’ve nothing but nice things to say about Boston crowds. I have nothing but terrible things to say about your sports teams.
