Maeve Higgins Makes SXSW Ghost Comedy More Than Extra Ordinary

Comedian and podcaster takes on the afterlife

"...to (ironically enough) NYC, where she works as a stand-up comic, author, and host of a podcast on personal..."

March 10, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Out of Bounds Comedy Festival 2016: The Frank Mills, Loverboy, People of Earth

These three improv troupes gave us an earful at this year's OoB

"...scene. That was evident throughout the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival triple bill Saturday at the Stateside. All three..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Hey, Kat, What's Up With Fridays at the Velv?

Ramzinski gives us the lowdown on the hoedown

"...at the Velveeta Room – that venerable dive-bar of comedy on Sixth, right next to Esther's Follies – and..."

July 20, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Luv Doc Recommends: Out of Bounds Comedy Festival Headliners

ND Austin, Sunday, September 6, 2009

"...dance your ass down to table 7 and Hoover up that high-chair debris field that Junior laid down while..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW Comedy: Talk Show the Game Show

Guy Branum’s brainchild yields real laughs and real conflict

"...The setup of the show is simple: Being a talk show..."

March 12, 2017 Arts Post by Carina Magyar

The New Girls of Comedy

'Mom' and 'Trophy Wife' signal the next era of television

"...It’s interesting how characterizing a TV comedy as “broad” has evolved into a culturati slight...."

Oct. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

Summer Break Theatre's COVID-Era Comedy

Area educators deliver a timely lesson in their original work Going the Distance

"...to help Summer Break mount John Cariani's dark suburban comedy Cul-de-Sac. That show, which ran for three nights at..."

July 24, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Comedy: Standup Downtown

The varied lineup made for an unpredictable show

"...The eclectic SXSW Comedy Standup Downtown showcase Monday night covered a lot of..."

March 12, 2019 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

Out of Bounds Comedy Festival 2018

"...The 2018 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival featured hundreds of performers from Austin and across..."

Sept. 4, 2018 Photo Gallery

Cover Up: The Fun Fun Fun Fest Files

Front page stars of the 'Chronicle,' from Black Angels to Ume

"...Now we know the full lineup, it seems pretty clear that Fun Fun Fun Fest..."

July 14, 2012 Music Post

DVDanger: Digging Up the Marrow

Adam Green on the long and very personal path of his new feature

"...for the iron throne as anyone. His latest, Digging Up the Marrow, is one more claim to the crown...."

March 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Into the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival

Everybody's working for your weekend

"...It's funny, really, how much planning this thing takes...."

Sept. 2, 2011 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Not Shutting Up Anywhere

This Al Franken is your Al Franken

"...Rush Limbaugh, and those guys. And Iraq. And the corruption of guys like DeLay. All of the stuff that..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

All Wrapped Up

Holiday Film Previews

"...The Man Who Knew Too Little, and One Night Stand, as well as Disney's limited two-week re-release of The..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Local Duo Harvests Up Some Hilarity in Texas Gothic

Booker & Maykus are sure ’nuff sharper than a pitchfork

"...he’s Pa Gothic, the other half of the farming couple known as Ma & Pa Gothic, the duo of..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hanging Up the Torches

After 20 years of juggling fire and other foolery, the Flaming Idiots are calling it quits.

"...three have embarked on their farewell tour as a comedy team, more people than ever are clamoring for them..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts, Comedy, Theatre, Movies, and More Recommended Weekend Events

Jackie and Foxy Brown?! Yes please!

"...Stand aside, Anya Taylor-Joy and Gwyneth Paltrow. Heck, I’ll include..."

June 7, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Killing Nazis the Finnish Way: Jalmari Helander on Hyperviolent Action-Comedy Sisu

How mud and sand made for a gritty World War II romp

"...combo makes sense for his latest film, hilariously gruesome action-comedy Sisu. He teams up with his Rare Exports star..."

April 25, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Somebody Up There Likes Bob Byington

The writer-director talks about his fifth feature

"...If the release of Somebody Up There Likes Me represents a moment of reckoning in..."

April 5, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

SXSW Comedy: Doug Loves Movies Podcast Recording

Doug Benson and friends give South By a fond, filmic farewell

"...festival ending full of the easy joy of a couple of friends joking over Lone Stars and a campfire...."

March 18, 2019 SXSW Post by Rosalind Faires

Get Me to the Funny: Chortle Portal

Weekly comedy showcase at UT keeps the students coming back for more

"...best way to get to a hip and cool stand­up comedy night? Taxi? Bicycle? How about a Chortle Portal?..."

March 9, 2016 Arts Post by Spencer Beghtol

Don't Think Twice

In this comedy about comedy, Mike Birbiglia nails what's funny and true

"...With Me, writer/director Mike Birbiglia mines what he knows: stand-up comedy. The characters and settings of both films are..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bye-Bye, Bearden – Hello, Mac & Joe!

Cap City Comedy's PUNCH! showcase goes ALL'S WELL as of … now.

"...has been running the Tuesday night PUNCH! showcase of stand-up comedy at Cap City Comedy Club for years. But..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ladybugs

"...Jackée, Jonathan Brandis and Ilene Graff. Whether doing a stand-up comedy routine or acting in a movie, Rodney Dangerfield..."

April 3, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

This Is My Life

"...is leave them with her newfound friends from the comedy clubs. Her career proceeds smoothly as clockwork, the only..."

March 6, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Opposite Sex (And How to Live With Them)

"...comes off as a flat, decidedly unfunny sitcom-meets-cheap TV movie-of-the-week-meets-stand-up comedy rejects from Comedy Central. Presented as a string..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

The Rude Mechs' Field Guide

There's much to ponder in the second draft of the Rude Mechs' mash-up of Dostoyevsky, stand-up comedy, and spiritual belief

"...important because last Friday's performance of Field Guide wasn't up to the standards of the company's other works in..."

April 15, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Bianca Del Rio Targets Austin in It’s Jester Joke

Nothing’s off-limits in her comedy tour, at Moody Theatre Nov. 7

"...we’ve got a new clown in town. Season six RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and comedy drag queen Bianca Del..."

Oct. 30, 2019 Qmmunity Post by A. Micah Mills

Getting the Joke

Comedy isn't the funny business it was in the Eighties, what with fewer clubs and audiences burned out by comedy on cable and hack comics. Seven Austin comics discuss the current state of stand-up in a round-table discussion.

"...April is the cruelest month for the Austin comedy scene. That's the time of its annual rite of..."

June 30, 2000 Arts Feature

A Cuppa Hot Joe

On a comedy club stage, News Radio star Joe Rogan exudes a mad joy for life in all its insanity, depravity, and delicious dirt; if Henry Miller had done stand-up, it would have come out like Joe Rogan's act.

"...his performances place him among a rare breed of stand-ups like Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks, who weren't afraid..."

May 4, 2001 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

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