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Marlon Wayans on Our New “Recession” of Thought

By Vic Shuttee

Jun 22, 2022

Marlon Wayans, the 49-year-old comic and writer-producer, can’t complain. He’s the rare comic who has made a path for himself in dramatic roles, like opposite Jennifer Hudson in the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect or opposite Rashida Jones in the Apple TV+ film On The Rocks, yet like Adam Sandler and...

Opinion: Rudz to Host Another Transphobic Comedy Trashfire

By Jef Rouner

May 5, 2022

When you see an advertisement heralding the arrival of “dark comedy,” and the poster involves people who all pass as white and are mostly men, you can put your money on the evening being the sort of thing that makes you wish you’d stayed home and attended to an infected...

Gianmarco Soresi Promises His Stand-Up Has “More Punchlines” Than His Therapy Sessions Allow

By Vic Shuttee

May 3, 2022

Get your Big Apple fix, because a fast-quipping funnyman named Gianmarco Soresi is making a quick return to Houston’s own Rudyard’s for two nights of raw, rollicking comedy dealing with his messy family life. “I love Rudyard’s,” the comic says. “The minute I performed there I wanted to come back...

Ed Hill on Turning Family “Quirks” Into Comedy and Making Stand-Up Mentor Louie Anderson “Proud”

By Vic Shuttee

Apr 26, 2022

It’s been a long pandemic, and Canadian comic Ed Hill is finally ready to get back out of the house. “I basically haven’t been anywhere for the past two years, so the last time I was in Houston was about four years ago,” the comic explains over the phone. Hill,...

Tig Notaro Says Hello Again To Houston

By Sam Byrd

Apr 21, 2022

Performing Arts Houston will present one of comedy's hottest acts, Tig Notaro, in Hello Again. The laughter-filled set will take place at 7 p.m. Friday at Cullen Theater's Wortham Center. True to her typical style, she'll share musings about her life and encounters spanning over the past few years.

Nothing Nikki Glaser Jokes About on Saturday Leaves This Room, Got It?

By Vic Shuttee

Apr 14, 2022

Comic Nikki Glaser is clearly on a quest, and from the sound of her voice, there’s some nervousness in her unknown terrain ahead. “No, it's crazy, I’m back on tour after taking quite a break since like December. Promoting my reality show, filming FBoy Island 2, and other projects coming...

Andy Huggins Is Ready to Chronicle His Comedy Legacy

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.

Apr 13, 2022

Andy Huggins has been thinking about his legacy lately, so much so that the veteran Houston stand-up comedian — a member of the legendary Texas Outlaw Comics — asked fellow comics how he might film his first-ever comedy special. Huggins, 72, has had bits and pieces of his act filmed...

Bill Maher Has a Lot to Say about Trump, Ted Cruz, Wokeness, Millennials & More

By Bob Ruggiero

Mar 31, 2022

For one hour each week (and a little extra online), Bill Maher addresses, dissects, skewers, pontificates and debates with guests the social and political topics of the day on his long-running HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher. But given just how batshit crazy things are going these days in...

Kountry Wayne is Headlining The Big Comedy Rooms - And Ready to Meet Jennifer Aniston

By Vic Shuttee

Mar 29, 2022

"I don’t care if she married or not. If she married tell her husband if he listening, I’m sorry."

Quebec Comic Sugar Sammy Might Not Mind Getting “Cancelled” In America

By Vic Shuttee

Mar 7, 2022

"Even within America, your country is so divided... you can get cancelled in one state and be a super star in another."

If Fran Lebowitz Doesn’t Remember You, Then “You’re Not Memorable”

By Vic Shuttee

Feb 9, 2022

"The main thing about COVID is it presented to me such a large number of things I have never previously thought about. So now I’ve thought about them, and I’m finished thinking about them."

Filmmaker Mel Brooks Focuses on Himself

By Tom Richards

Jan 5, 2022

In his new autobiography, Mel Brooks provides behind the scenes accounts of his classic films and regales the reader with stories from his life in show biz.

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

By Vic Shuttee

Jan 4, 2022

Despite the state of the world around us, last year turned out all right for veteran cut-up Donnell Rawlings. “2021 was a set up from what should have been the worst year of my career, and I made 2021 into one of the best years of my career,” the Chappelle’s...

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...

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