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“Dino-Dad” Donnell Rawlings Dishes on Podcasting with His 5-Year-Old and His Role in PIXAR’s Soul

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Opinion: No One Cares About Your Friendship With a Bigot

By Jef Rouner
Jan 3, 2022

Over New Year’s Eve, comedian Patton Oswalt got himself sent to Cancelvania because he agreed to come perform a guest spot with Dave Chappelle. The two have been friends for decades, and it was Oswalt’s first chance to do an arena gig. Later, he posted a photo of him and...
Comic Steve Treviño Sounds The Alarms About Latino Underrepresentation In “Racist Hollywood”

By Vic Shuttee
Dec 22, 2021

Texas-native Steve Treviño was in Houston not so long ago, back in 2020. But obviously, it's been one hell of a long year – especially since the pandemic hardly kept the comic at home for very long. “I feel like life is in fast forward, if I’m being honest with...
With New Energy and a New Book, Daniel Sloss’ Hubris is Unmatched

By Vic Shuttee
Nov 16, 2021

"It's called Hubris, because when I was at my fucking peak of ability I decided to take a massive step back and just do jokes again."
Paula Poundstone Is Back After Failing To Land a Grocery Store Gig

By Vic Shuttee
Oct 25, 2021

Believe it or not, it sounds like one of the best comics working today almost put her career on the back burner over the last year plus. Paula Poundstone, who will be headlining a night of laughs at The Grand 1894 on Saturday, October 30, reveals one of her pandemic...
How Would You Even Stop Cancel Culture?

By Jef Rouner
Oct 22, 2021

Dave Chappelle opened his big, stupid transphobic mouth again, and now people are rushing to defend him from cancel culture. The arguments are always the same: free speech must never be impeded no matter how harmful, comedians are the front line of thought, pushing back against cancel culture is necessary...
Human Snowball Nick Thune Rolls Into Houston

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.
Aug 16, 2021

Nick Thune answered the requisite COVID question with a perfectly Nick Thune joke. Asked about performing stand-up comedy during the pandemic, he mentioned he’d done only a few shows this year ahead of his Velvet Loafers Tour, which began the last week of July with five shows in San Diego...
Station Theater Re-Opens, Featuring COVID Expert Dr. Peter Hotez

By Jef Rouner
Jul 23, 2021

The improv and sketch comedy scene across America has been hit very hard by COVID. Major locations like the iO Theater in Chicago and Dallas Comedy House announced permanent closures, and our own Station Theater was one of the first venues to shut its doors last March. Now, they are...
Comedy Audiences Are “Night and Day” From Before The Pandemic Says Stand-Up Mark Normand

By Vic Shuttee
Jul 20, 2021

Look at Hamiliton! Imagine Hamilton in a Funny Bone in Des Moines, you know? It wouldn’t work. But it works on Broadway... So you put comedy in there and people go: ‘Hey, this is pretty good.’”
Between Baking and Wipeouts, Comic-Host Nicole Byer is Too Busy To Slow Down

By Vic Shuttee
Jul 14, 2021

"...I didn’t get to watch the Rugrats because I didn’t have cable growing up because my parents were fucking cheap and wanted to deprive me of fun and good times!"
Ms. Pat Finding Her New Groove by Playing Clubs and Prepping Her New BET+ Sitcom

By Vic Shuttee
Jun 21, 2021

"The really good thing about BET+ is they let me be me... They didn’t try to hush me up and I’ll tell you this: I’m NOT Claire Huxtable!”
Bob Saget Hasn't Been More Excited About Stand-Up Comedy "Since 1995"

By Vic Shuttee
Jun 2, 2021

"I don’t touch politics, I touch things that are… I don’t touch anything! That’s going to read well. I don’t touch anything anymore."
Young Sheldon Co-Star Doc Farrow Came To Texas For The Skydiving (and the Stand-Up Too)

By Vic Shuttee
May 10, 2021

"The first couple of years I did stand up, I compared it to carrying a 80 pound pack in Iraq - It’s the scariest thing I’ve done, still is."
Musical Comic Matt Griffo Leads a Night of Tunes, Visual Art and Humor at Studio Regina

By Vic Shuttee
Apr 7, 2021

Whether it’s Second City or other groups... seeing how people persevere in improv, where they’re still saying ‘we’re gonna make stuff!’ To see them persevering, I think has been really great.
“Romanticized” Satirists Won’t Stop The Next Fascists, Warns Daily Show Vet Bassem Youssef

By Vic Shuttee
Feb 15, 2021

Even the "Jon Stewart of Egypt" admits that's America's Jon Stewart joining Twitter is exciting, saying: "That’s the best thing of 2021. Jon Stewart can lead us anywhere!"
Joey Bishop: The Lost Rat in the Pack

By Bob Ruggiero
Dec 30, 2020

Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey, the Mob, and the Summit By Richard A. Lertzman with Lon Davis 367 pp. $24.98 Prestige Books For a brief time in the early ‘60s, they were the Connoisseurs of Cool and the Sultans of Swinging Swagger, taking Las Vegas by storm with a base...
Hot Off An SNL All-Timer, Chappelle Gives House of Blues Houston Three Nights

By Vic Shuttee
Nov 19, 2020

No stand-up comic in America offers a less predictable show than Dave Chappelle. The lion of stand-up has proven to be one of the fastest writers in the business, and show no qualms about releasing his quality material feverishly, often capturing the zeitgeist in sets that range from 15 minutes...
Steve Trevino Doesn’t Agree That Comedy is “Unessential Work”

By Vic Shuttee
Oct 28, 2020

"Captain Evil is my wife! ...I’m very lucky to have a wife who is in on the joke, and she’s got thick skin"
Rapper Turned Comic Chingo Bling Brings A More Mature Act to Houston Improv

By Vic Shuttee
Sep 9, 2020

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FX Renews Dave for Second Season After Overwhelming First Season Success

By Carlos Brandon
May 19, 2020

These days, cable networks have their work cut out for them in the perpetual content battle against the big streaming giants. With Netflix, Prime and HBO dominating the original content conversation, it seems the days of network dominance are a distant memory. And yet, in this cord-cutting dystopia, FX and...
Comedy Writer Alan Zweibel Curates Memoirs With Help From Funny Friends He’s Made Funnier

By Vic Shuttee
May 15, 2020

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