Comedy Speed Dating

Fred Armisen, W. Kamau Bell, Chris Cubas, Rob Gagnon's One Hour Comedy Festival, Neil Hamburger, Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, Jonah Ray

"...Fun Fun Fun Fest's 2014 comedy roster offers a respectable, if overly male, sampling of..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Scott Schinder

SXSW Comedy: 2014 Panels Announced

Inside 'Portlandia,' Seth Meyers' 'Late Night,' and more

"...Armisen and Carrie Brownstein will do the same for indie satire Portlandia, as will Pete Holmes for his TBS..."

Jan. 28, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin-Made Comedy Home Free Is Taking Homelessness Seriously

How a chance encounter in 1997 keeps changing lives

"...Brown and Lenny Barszap, director and writer of college comedy Home Free (screening at Austin Film Festival Oct. 27),..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Macon Blair Slated to Direct Upcoming Comedy Brothers

Movie will star Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage

"...signed up to write and direct a new, high-profile comedy...."

May 7, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

Cinema41: One Year Old and Still Indie as Indie Can Be

Cinema 41 celebrates their one-year anniversary

"...film Living in Oblivion, nicely dovetails with both Cinema41's indie backbone while recalling a moment in time when independent..."

April 5, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

TikTok Talents, Metal Gods and Comedy Provocateurs Added as SXSW Keynotes and Speakers

With a week to go, the fest expands its speaker and podcast list

"...explosion of ideas, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Plus, comedy mavericks Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney..."

March 1, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Comedy: The Laugh Button Live

This show was the year's Holy Grail of comedy

"...likely go down as the Holy Grail of SXSW Comedy this year...."

March 18, 2015 SXSW Post by Russ Espinoza

Queer Comedy That’s Not Just for Queers

Way Down in the Hole and Liz Behan take over ColdTowne

"...the special for the predictable, but instead, as two comedy shows running this weekend do, reforming niche, queer comedy..."

Aug. 15, 2019 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview: Comedy On The Yellow Stage

"...Buress, Jackie Kashian, and helped inaugurate the San Francisco Comedy & Burrito Festival...."

Nov. 2, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

The Paper Street Podcast Gives a Voice to the Indie Film Industry

With movie production in lockdown, try the sounds of Paper Street

"...Street Pictures, is different. "This is a podcast for indie filmmakers by indie filmmakers," explained host and filmmaker Becky..."

May 22, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Republic of Indie in a Netflix Nation

How Austin's homegrown video stores are faring against the big red giant

"...faring even worse. Blockbuster, the longtime Antichrist tormentor to indie Nazarenes such as Kim's Video, has been in market-share..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Movies, Comedy, Books, and More Recommended Arts Events

Find an art that fits your tastes

"...an active volcano ... or is it? This scripted comedy sketch show is a fresh flow of bright burning..."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Comedy of Errors

Getting serious – and seriously malfunctioning – with Will Ferrell

"...Comedian Will Ferrell stars in the indie drama Everything Must Go, which opens this Friday. A..."

May 13, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin's Indie Spirit

Anish Savjani and Bryan Poyser score noms

"...Bryan Poyser’s Lovers of Hate, an acidic romantic-comedy that premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, was..."

Nov. 30, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Indie Shorts on Display

The Territory Begins New Season

"...by Dan Portland (15 min/New York/1997). Performance art, stand-up comedy, and girl talk are blended into an experimental narrative..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Feature

Little Miss Sunshine

Like any indie comedy worth its weight in quirkiness, Little Miss Sunshine is packed with offbeat characters, all struggling to find meaning in life – in this case on a road trip to a children's beauty pageant. And the film is so much fun, it's almost impossible not to enjoy the journey.

"...delivers in a satisfying way. Sunshine embraces the well-paved comedy road-trip structure with more than one rip-off, er, homage..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Super Troopers

"...sleepy Vermont town. A festival hit by the five-man comedy troupe Broken Lizard, this indie comedy succeeds most when..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

This unasked-for sequel goes down like an overdose of baklava

"...This pointless sequel to 2002’s blockbuster indie comedy dutifully recycles with desperate comic purpose the original’s..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Austin Filmmaker Takes on Patent Trolls

Lex Lybrand's new comedy The Trolls is patently ridiculous

"...Indie filmmakers don't normally get to publicize their low-budget comedy..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Destroy All Neighbors

Prog rock splatterpunk comedy revival is all bum notes

"...Now Destroy All Neighbors tries to revive the splatterpunk comedy and, well, maybe the voltage should have been higher..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sorority Boys

"...filmmakers would have us believe that their new cross-dressing comedy Sorority Boys is Some Like It Hot by way..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Juno

This indie comedy is funny, smart, cool, and heartfelt, and features breakout showcases for star Ellen Page and screenwriter Diablo Cody.

"...and Juno settles in to a sharp, winning relationship comedy. There are a lot of relationships to choose from..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Felicia Day, Defender of the Earth

'The Guild' star plays Asteroids tonight at the Alamo with 'Rock Jocks'

"...the world, but tonight at the Alamo Ritz, actress/web comedy pioneer Felicia Day will be blasting the skies clear..."

June 27, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Bob Byington's filmed-in-Austin, indie comedy takes place over decades as a guy wanders through life with (scene-stealing) coaching from his best friend, played by Nick Offerman.

"...In Bob Byington's anti-romantic comedy Somebody Up There Likes Me, characters get married, divorced,..."

April 5, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

SXSW Film Review: A Bad Idea Gone Wrong

The very model of a modern major indie comedy

"...would amount to a fully enjoyable, often even touching, indie comedy?..."

March 12, 2017 SXSW Post by Sean L. Malin

SNL alum Noël Wells' Mr. Roosevelt

Indie comedy digs deep into Austin social mores

"...Wells was the wunderkind of the Austin improv and comedy scene, starring at Esther's Follies while still an undergraduate..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

Inability to Cater

What is so 'punk' about JT Habersaat and the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour?

"...it a punk rock record? Wait: It's filed under comedy?!..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

Don't Think Twice

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

"...As in his 2012 indie film breakout, Sleepwalk With Me, writer/director Mike Birbiglia mines..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Obvious Child

Jenny Slate stars as a standup comic in this indie film about abortion that comes snuggled in the broad strokes of a quirky comedy.

"...door at a 22 Jump Street screening.) Donna’s crude comedy – punched up by Slate’s vox-box-vrooming between a high-pitched..."

June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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