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.”
BOZO ON A CRUCIFIX
Dana Jay Bein scrubs tubs to tell jokes and has zero regrets. Mostly.
DAVID CROSS HAS CHANGED A LOT SINCE HE CAME OF COMEDIC AGE IN BOSTON. FOR STARTERS, HE’S FAMOUS NOW.
“It’s this antiquated thing that shows you how much innocence we’ve lost in just a number of years.”
LAURIE KILMARTIN: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A MOM, WRITER, AND ORPHAN AUTHOR
“The book came out in February and it’s called Dead People Suck. It’s about my dad. It’s a comedic memoir about my dad dying of cancer. It covers hospice care, things you want an old person to do before they die, how you want to prepare yourself for your parental death, and ultimately your status as a middle age orphan.”
GUTBUSTA: GREATER BOSTON COMEDY LISTINGS: 11.2 – 11.9
Donnell Rawlings is back headlining Comics 2 Cure at Laugh Boston for our 3rd annual stand up comedy benefit show.
BIG APPLE, BIGGER MOUTH: A Q+A WITH NY COMIC PAUL VIRZI
Not to say there aren’t great comics in LA, it just seems like they’re all out there trying to get famous. You’re from Boston, you understand. It’s the blue collar wise-ass remarks, fast talking with a little bit of swag to it. I think the audience gets a kick out it.
STATE OF THE BOSTON COMEDY UNION
Seven comics. Two hours. One historic summit on the state of stand-up comedy in the Hub.
Q&A AND EXCERPT: GONDELMAN & BERKOWITZ EXPLAIN HOW YOU’VE ALREADY RUINED YOUR LIFE
For instance, one of the authors is fervently anti-brunch, and the other is NOT a monster.
INTERVIEW: RYAN DONAHUE OF ‘STRANGE BEHAVIOR’
“I’d pay 10 bucks to fart in a theater.”
