If you’re disappointed after missing Bernie Sanders speak at the RiverCentre in St. Paul last week or saddened by the absence of Donald Trump at the last Republican debate, here’s a pick-me-up.
On...
Even though he just quit his day job, comedian Adam Quesnell couldn’t be happier.
As he presented his future plans — getting married, settling down in Minneapolis, planning his...
The worst Cy Amundson ever bombed doing stand-up comedy was at a gig for a University of Minnesota fraternity formal.
“I had to do it at Santorini restaurant. They showed up an hour...
Rob Hubbard, author of “Brave New Workshop: Promiscuous Hostility and Laughs in the Land of Loons,” has been following Brave New Workshop since the 1970s when he was introduced to one of their...
Wyatt Cenac admits he’s a skeptical person. He often suspects things are too good to be true and will “wait for the other shoe to drop” — except when it comes to aliens on TV.
“I’ve...
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On Thursday, “Parks and Recreation” writer Harris Wittels died of an apparent drug overdose, after years of using his self-described ‘drug guy’ sensibility...
Avoiding the pitfalls of countless pop culture journalists over the past 40 years, I’ve refrained from headlining this article about the sketch-comedy classic “Saturday Night Live” with...
Twin Cities comedian Rana May found her standup voice in a unique way: subverting literary reading loftiness.
While starting out, May performed readings in her mock-expert character at places like Minneapolis’s...
Taking the stage to an ironic, overlong hair-metal drum solo, comedian Demetri Martin ditched all histrionics and stuck to his recent promise of just jokes for his “Persistence of Jokes” tour...
Despite his thirst for knowledge, standup comedian Demetri Martin knows to keep himself humble.
“A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except how for how annoying he is,” Martin quips...