The comedy world lost a legendary performer Friday. Robert Schimmel was 60 years old when he succumbed to injuries he sustained during an Aug. 26 car accident in Arizona. In the end, the details of his death are unimportant. What’s important is that we remember what he contributed to the art of comedy. Schimmel was a [...]

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Editor’s note: Listen, we’re not usually the one’s trying to make you laugh. And, honestly, we’re not going to make a habit out of it because, frankly, we respect comedians too much to try to tread on their ground. But this just had to be done. So, hopefully you get a few laughs out of [...]

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Jim David is a comedian. Clearly. The man has the confidence, charm and control that mark a veteran of the field; he’s polished from years of experience. But to say he is clearly a comedian is also a critique. Under all of the experience lie jokes that while skillfully delivered are often too obvious and too clearly [...]

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Doug Benson, just today, released a new album through Comedy Central Records. It’s called Hypocritical Oaf. And it is filled with what you’d expect– stoned out ruminations on the mundane facets of life. To celebrate the release of Oaf, his third album, Punchline Magazine’s Matthew Gill — become a fan of his on Facebook! — chatted [...]

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While anyone can point out hypocrisy, and maybe even get a laugh, it takes a special kind of mind to mix the sardonic with the silly, the way Glenn Wool does on his album, Let Your Hands Go (Stand-Up! Records.) Wool doesn’t just touch on heavy topics, but rather dives, full force and unapologetically, into religion, [...]

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Hate to agree with Grouchy Old Pinheads Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, but it really is time to “take back America” — from them and the rest of their oilier-than-the-Gulf-Coast ilk. Apparently Kevin Camia agrees, because he amusingly pierces the pompous and ostentatious, the humorless and clueless, the cloyingly cute and annoyingly hip on Kindness (Rooftop [...]

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The new installment of our video interview series A Tight Five brings us to comedian Nick Thune. Recorded while we were at the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival earlier this year, this may go down as the interview recorded latest in the day in the three year history of A Tight Five. Very exciting. Also, exciting? [...]

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Just before the finale of Last Comic Standing, Punchline Magazine’s Matthew Gill had a great chat with comedian Mike DeStefano, who landed in the final five of the NBC competition show. But honestly, his appearances on the show had nothing to do with us wanting to meet up with the man. We’ve been quietly following his [...]

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When Eddie Murphy first crooned of a lady fair whose primary ambitions lay within the realm of “partying all the time,” he may just as well have been speaking of Margaret Cho. Already raucous, fun, and thrill-seeking, there seems to be no territory left to be unturned by the formidable stand-up star. And as if a [...]

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Print this page out to get $5 off admission to Veronica Mosey’s headlining show at Carolines on Aug. 24. Get more ticket info here. World famous comedy venue Carolines on Broadway and Punchline Magazine have joined forces to present the Breakout Artist Comedy Series. Each Tuesday, at Carolines in New York City, an emerging stand-up comedy [...]

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We’ve been following the bubbling rise of Whitney Cummings’ career for the last few years. An East Coast transplant living in Hollywood, she’s made a name for herself writing for the ultra popular Comedy Central roasts and then getting in front of the cameras for the first time at a roast last year, where she [...]

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In a new installment of our interview series A Tight Five, we sit down with LA-based comedian Chris Fairbanks in the green room of the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, CO, where he performed earlier this summer, part of the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival. We get into Chris’ unique joke-telling style, a story of redemption involving [...]

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Print this page out to get $5 off admission to Harrison Greenbaum’s headlining show at Carolines on Aug. 17. Get more ticket info here. World famous comedy venue Carolines on Broadway and Punchline Magazine have joined forces to present the Breakout Artist Comedy Series. Each Tuesday, at Carolines in New York City, [...]

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Just days after comedian Felipe Esparza took first place in NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Punchline Magazine’s Matthew Gill sat down with the winner in East LA to chat about Felipe’s $250,000 check, how young comics should handle the craft and much more. Check it out. And to get a taste of Felipe’s comedy, check out his [...]

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How does one relatively unknown comedian rise above the pack? And what does his story of struggle have to do with the rest of the stand-up comedy world? Salty Language, Peppered Morals, the little comedy documentary that could, tries to get some answers. The film’s title alone is enough to spring the mind to an immediate, [...]

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Print this page out to get $5 off admission to Ryan Hamilton’s headlining show at Carolines on Aug. 10. Get more ticket info here. World famous comedy venue Carolines on Broadway and Punchline Magazine have joined forces to present the Breakout Artist Comedy Series. Each Tuesday, at Carolines in New York City, an emerging [...]

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Synchronicity in Montreal I seem to have a knack for running into people. There are other knacks I’d like to acquire, but when there’s a pattern in your life, you’re supposed to recognize it, and acknowledge it, and it’s definitely a pattern in my life. Richie Tienken, the owner of The Comic Strip, and I went up [...]

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Not that Robert Buscemi deceives the IRS when he writes “comedian” on the occupation line of his tax return; it’s just that his overriding job is engineer of his nonstop train of thought. On Palpable, his new release from Rooftop Comedy Productions, the paradoxical Buscemi takes the audience at the Lincoln Lodge in Chicago and listeners [...]

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Tom Simmons – let’s place him in the underappreciated-comic category – recently released his fifth live album, Keep Up, which is full of astute, unique observations on life, society and many of the institutions encompassed within both. Simmons’ knack for writing bitingly honest but genuinely endearing material is fully displayed on the album; he [...]

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In a new installment of our series A Tight Five, we sit down with comedian Moshe Kasher. Those comedy nerds that follow the latest and greatest in stand-up no doubt know Moshe from his many festival and TV appearances and his highly acclaimed album Everyone You Know Is Going To Die, And Then You Are. [...]

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