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Joey Waldon: In Memoriam

Senses of humor and artistic outlooks don't come much weirder – or more Austin – than Joey Waldon's. During his days as a Velveeta Room regular and local cartoonist, Waldon routinely took the most ordinary subjects and gave them an offbeat spin that that tickled the brain just as much as the funny bone. Alas, that wonderful talent has left us. Read More | Comment »

4:20PM Wed. May. 22, Robert Faires

Mac & Cheers

"I was in a Walgreen's … at night. So already I fucked up," opined Mac Blake in leading off a very funny story about a mouth-breather shopping for a belt at the drugstore. Where the comedian didn't fuck up was walking into Cap City Comedy Club on Monday night. Because he walked out wearing the crown of Funniest Person in Austin 2013. Read More | Comment »

11:45AM Tue. May. 21, Robert Faires

Moms the Word

Moms Mabley is inside Whoopi Goldberg. You can see for yourself when the multitalented, what-hasn't-she-done comedian/Oscar-winning actress/co-host of The View/drinkslinger on the starship Enterprise takes the Dell Hall stage at the Long Center on Saturday night. Read More | Comment »

4:00PM Fri. May. 17, Robert Faires

Twitter Comedy Fest Starts … Now!

Twitter is a funny place, y'know? And not just funny-peculiar – funny-haha, too. Read More | Comment »

2:59PM Mon. Apr. 29, Monica Riese

Thanks for the Memories, Moontower

The second annual Moontower Comedy & Oddity Fest bowed out on Saturday, but there are plenty of ways to hit rewind and relive so much funny. Read More | Comment »

11:03AM Mon. Apr. 29, Kimberley Jones

Moontower, Day 3: Bill Burr

There are comics, and then there's Bill Burr, a guy on a way higher plane than just about any. Burr strides onto the stage and grabs the audience by the collar – and that includes you out there with your smart phone-illuminated faces, stupid enough to be texting during Burr's shrill, high-pitched brilliance. Read More | Comment »

1:30PM Sun. Apr. 28, Anne S. Lewis

Moontower, Day 3: Live Podcast of 'WTF'

Marc Maron’s WTF podcast taping at the Stateside on Friday was an eventful and star-studded spectacle. By the time taping wrapped and the host bade farewell, comedians Jim Norton,Michael Ian Black, Maria Bamford, Todd Barry, Janeane Garofalo, and Dom Irrera had been interviewed. Read More | Comment »

11:25AM Sun. Apr. 28, Russ Espinoza

Moontower, Day 3: She-Bang

What can you say about Maria Bamford that hasn't been said before? The spirit animal of neurotic white single ladies took the stage Friday night following a talented line-up of her neurotic sisters that included Mary Patterson, Alice Wetterlund, Emily Heller, Kerri Lendo, and Morgan Murphy. Read More | Comment »

10:37AM Sun. Apr. 28, Amy Gentry

Moontower, Day 3: IFC Screening of 'Maron'

“That was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Marc Maron said upon emerging from backstage at the Stateside, after the premiere screening of an episode from his forthcoming IFC sitcom, Maron . Which sounds intense, coming from him. Read More | Comment »

11:15AM Sat. Apr. 27, Dan Solomon

Moontower Extra: More Talk With Todd Barry

Veteran comedian, actor, and voice actor Todd Barry is staying plenty busy at this year's Moontower Comedy Festival: five appearances between Wednesday and Saturday, including two Friday. Here's more material from his interview with the Chronicle. Read More | Comment »

5:30PM Fri. Apr. 26, Russ Espinoza

Moontower, Day 2: Maria Bamford

Maria Bamford’s hour-long standup set at Stateside kicked off the evening’s slate. Known for an off-kilter ethos and a cultivated borderline personality disorder, the 42-year-old comedienne – who has a recurring role on the upcoming season of Arrested Development – turned in another deft performance with a blend of material new and old. Read More | Comment »

4:30PM Fri. Apr. 26, Russ Espinoza

Moontower, Day 2: She-Bang

I'm at She-Bang, the all-women comedy line-up at the Parish, and I'm happy to report that the crowd boasts at least as many men as women. Having just read Sara Schaefer's brilliant response to the question, "What's it like being a woman in comedy?", I'm eager to learn from this that there's no difference at all between the sexes, comedy-wise. Read More | Comment »

3:30PM Fri. Apr. 26, Amy Gentry

Moontower, Day 2: Dana Carvey

Say this for Dana Carvey: He knows what audiences want from him, and that's what he gives them. The comedian has never been particularly prolific – averaging a new HBO special about once a decade – but the characters and impressions he developed during his fruitful SNL years have served him well, and he’s not afraid to go back to them. Repeatedly. Read More | Comment »

10:40AM Fri. Apr. 26, Dan Solomon

Moontower Day 1: Todd Barry

Let me just come out with it: Todd Barry is my idea of the consummate wit. His conceptual stuff is, as it was at the Stateside at the Paramount on Wednesday night, invariably smart, edgy, sarcastic, and brilliantly observed. Yep, all those adjectives and get this: completely devoid of scatology or raunch, if you can imagine that. Read More | Comment »

5:30PM Thu. Apr. 25, Anne S. Lewis

Moontower Day 1: Marc Maron

I have no idea how the Anthony Jeselnik show next door at the Paramount went, though the line for that show snaked around the corner, just as it had for Bill Hader. But clearly the contrast between the crush over there and the far more subdued and sparsely populated scene at the Stateside was not a good thing for the egos of the talent booked there. Read More | Comment »

4:50PM Thu. Apr. 25, Anne S. Lewis

Distilling an Entire Comedy Festival Into a Single Hour?

We haven't actually interviewed him about this, no. Read More | Comment »

2:39PM Fri. Apr. 12, Wayne Alan Brenner

Assaulting the Stand-Ups at Austin's Heckle Factory

Usually, the ideal – the comedy-gold standard – is that the audience will just STFU and laugh, right? Read More | Comment »

3:31PM Wed. Apr. 10, Wayne Alan Brenner

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Breweries

Tap Brew Tours isn't content to merely ferry people from place to place in their tasty and informative showcase of three local breweries this Saturday. Read More | Comment »

4:45PM Wed. Mar. 27, Wayne Alan Brenner

'Don't Let It Get Weird'

The first weekend of SXSW Comedy offered several examples of comedians not engaging in the most socially gracious behavior – surprise, surprise! – but that was balanced by at least one notable instance of a comic going out of his way to be nice to his fans. Read More | Comment »

1:52PM Mon. Mar. 11, Russ Espinoza

SXSW Comedy Announces Preliminary Lineup

Compared to the bulletins put out by SXSW's Interactive, Music, & Film arms – news blasts so frequent they leave us fairly reeling – SXSW Comedy has only just made its first lineup announcement of the 2013 calendar year. Don't worry: There's plenty there worth having waited for. Read More | Comment »

2:20PM Thu. Feb. 21, Kimberley Jones

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