SXSW Comedy: The Laugh Button Live!

Kathy Griffin ignited a late-night set full of high energy

"...Tuesday night Amy Miller hosted SXSW Comedy's The Laugh Button Live! with Gotham Comedy Club showcase, featuring comics..."

March 13, 2019 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

SXSW Comedy: The Laugh Button Live

This show was the year's Holy Grail of comedy

"...way into Esther’s Follies on Monday night for The Laugh Button Live showcase will gently smile to themselves and..."

March 18, 2015 SXSW Post by Russ Espinoza

Live Shots

NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL

"...be much easier to list the bands who didn't deliver -- but a short list of fine shows would..."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...La Tropa F at Aqua Fest Saturday, August 2..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Music Feature

SXSW Comedy: Your 2017 Lineup

Making you laugh this March: Cenac, Sykes, Odenkirk, Hardwick, & more

"...Laugh lovers who have been holding their breaths waiting to..."

Feb. 21, 2017 SXSW Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Comedy: Your 2020 Lineup

Get ready for Buress, Davidson, National Lampoon, and more

"...thought that something was missing from SXSW 2020? Yeah, laughs! Well, no more. SXSW has announced this year's Comedy..."

March 4, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Comedy: Your 2018 Lineup

March mirth blows in with Bloom, Offerman, Gaffigan, & Cavett

"...there's also a part when March goes full hyena, laughing like crazy, and that's all due to SXSW Comedy...."

Feb. 27, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Comedy: Your 2019 Lineup

Leading the laughs: Griffin, The Daily Show, and Elon Musk?

"...news about SXSW 2019, it sets up loads of laughs, ’cause this year’s Comedy Festival includes Kathy Griffin, The..."

Feb. 26, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Interview: Jim Breuer

The 'SNL' alum bleats about the show, stand-up, and Metallica

"...subjects may have bad connotations for some, Breuer still delivers with sneaky intelligence and inexhaustible energy...."

March 14, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

Taxi

Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon comedy stalls at the starting gate.

"...Jimmy Fallon) who may be hilarious behind Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update desk, tend to fare poorly when transposed..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All Your Memes Are Belong to Us

Austinites bloom where they're planted, and local meme-makers are here to help us laugh at ourselves

"...of people sharing it via the click of a button mushrooming from the hundreds to the thousands. Soon, people..."

July 20, 2012 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Tongue-in-Cheek Terror

"...and elsewhere, and releasing an EP, Brown Reason to Live, on Dead Kennedys leader Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

David Sedaris and the Art of Ignoring

Austin-bound, the author adds a new descriptor: controversial.

"...medically-induced coma. “So many of the reasons why people live there were suddenly completely gone. All the theatres were..."

April 28, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...boy image thatÕs made him a star and instead delivers a crazed, all-stops-out performance as the deranged Goines. Willis..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...rock transitions conjure the wackiness of Austin Powers and Laugh In. The musical interludes seem quite appropriate and add..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

Hi, Bob

Onetime Dr. Hartley Bob Newhart, still balding, still grinning, took a sold-out Paramount back to 1972 for just under an hour last Thursday

"...one of the best-selling LPs of all time, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, but now the slightly stammered..."

April 15, 2005 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Musings on Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

"...kind of world that Mary Haines of The Women lived in -- that decidedly stilted world of 1930s East..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Books Feature

Culture, Arts, and More Recommended Weekend Events

Don't let the heat get you down

"...Queertowne Live!..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Hiiiiiiiii-Yah!

Austin foley artist Buzz Moran strips the sound out of a forgotten kung fu flick and redubs it live at the Drafthouse. The result? Something to chop about it.

"...of Alamo Drafthouse programs that combine screened films and live performance, often for the benefit of a lavishly soused..."

May 17, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

The Island of Dr. Ersek

Austin's media-friendly Robert Ersek is the king of pop cosmetic surgery

"...large portrait of himself. Normally he can punch a button and a wood panel slides out to reveal his..."

June 3, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Michael Jackson. I don't want to be weird or live in a weird city. If we have to have..."

April 18, 2003 Column

Welcome Wagon

Doyle Bramhall II, classic rock's most promising new blood

"...he's featured prominently on Roger Waters' In the Flesh Live, a 2-CD document of his work as the ex-Pink..."

May 25, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Dancing About Architecture

Ken rants about moving under the Congress Ave. bridge.

"...out of the way by the ever-growing rush of button-pushers. Even worse, the dominant atmosphere among artistic folks in..."

May 5, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

A fresh melange of reader responses to our recent issues.

"...it looks like you folks touched a serious hot button with your no-nonsense excoriation of the Real Estatesman for..."

May 25, 2001 Column

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...century; our modern cynicism has rendered shots like this laughable, useless. And yet those close-ups make films like The..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Tilda Swinton and Jim Jarmusch Go Together Like Cream

The actress dishes on ‘Only Lovers Left Alive'

"...and three-thousand-year-old vampire in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, Swinton is never anything less than mesmerizing to watch...."

April 24, 2014 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Reluctant Celebrity

When you get caught between the moon and New York City, it's time to head back home to Austin

"...property includes a garage apartment where his son Rain lives. Cross' desire to stay close to his children factored..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TV Eye

You can put down the book now

"...On Monday night, the Golden Globes are handed out live on NBC. Yes, all the chatter is about film,..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...of the South's slave-dependent aristocracy, Lee's "integrity" facilitated the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Americans in support of..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Column

Scanlines

The X-Files

"...ads!! The very thing that they invented the mute button on your remote for!!..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Screens Feature

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