comedy

Comedian Maria Bamford on Controlling the Voices in Her Head

Stand-up comic Maria Bamford is best known for her ability to manipulate her voice and facial features to embody multiple characters, ranging from her friends and dysfunctional family.

Podcast is the New Standup Album

The live album was at one time the definitive work that a standup comic could share with the world. That was before podcasts changed the way comedy content is created, distributed, and enjoyed.

Marc Maron's 12 Steps to Enlightenment

Maron, 47, started his comedy career in the mid-1980s in Boston and moved to New York City a few years later; he is considered one of the founding fathers of the alternative comedy scene.

Tom Shillue: 'Supernormal' Storyteller

Stand-up comedian and master storyteller Tom Shillue won an ECNY Award for "Best One Person Show" for "Supernormal," "an evening of stories so normal, they're radical."

Mike DeStefano Laughs at 'Drugs, Disease and Death'

Substance abuse and AIDs are hilarious, right? Well, no, not usually. But for the past decade, stand-up comedian Mike DeStefano has crafted a career telling jokes about these hardships.

Matt McCarthy 'Marking Out' Comedy Extravaganza in NYC

Comedian Matt McCarthy loves professional wrestling, and comedy. "I see a lot of parallels between stand-up and wrestling," he says. "They're both bastardized, in a way."

Jon Glaser, Unmasked, on Season Two of 'Delocated'

Comedian Jon Glaser has spent most of this summer running around the streets of the city in a thick wool ski mask. No, he's not robbing banks or sneaking onto fire escapes.

Q&A: Myq Kaplan, 'Last Comic Standing' Finalist

Stand-up comic Myq Kaplan has a knack for winning comedy contests. Which is why we think has a good chance to win the seventh season of the NBC competition "Last Comic Standing."

Lauren Francesca

"When you're an actor, I feel like you're always putting yourself out there, and you're doing everything to become that person or that character."

Jeff Asbell

Jeff Asbell calls himself a novice performer, but in reality he had been practicing improv for decades before being cast as a member in aNew York City improv troupe.