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Harvard Sailing Team is a nationally-renowned “Ivy League” sketch comedy group that’s earned critical praise and been featured on national television. They also have a fanatic YouTube following. Things took off for the group with their their “Boys Will Be Girls” series of videos. They earned an MTV Comedy Award nominee for Best Original Viral and gathered nearly 7 million views to date. Read More
Axis of Awesome is Australia’s contribution to the comedy music scene. Whereas The Lonely Island might get away with hardcore raps and hooks sung by celebs, AOA get away with clever wordplay and pop parodies, tunes that would line up more with Flight of the Conchords or Tenacious D. In fact, if you imagine Jack Black fronting Flight of the Conchords, you got yourself a pretty damn close comparison to Axis of Awesome. Read More
Lee Camp is amongst the new wave of comedians that want you to think about what they are saying just as much as they want you to laugh at it. In addition to being a contributor to publications like The Onion and 23/6, he’s thrown his efforts behind politics by doing gigs for politicians like Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, offering commentary for the 2008 elections. Lee uses comedy to point out what he see’s as wrong with society, a job for any great comedian. Read More
Joe Sib and Deano Jones met in a bar called The Continental on the lower east side of New York City in the mid 90’s. Sib was singing for the southern California pop/punk band WAX (ever see the Spike Jonze video with the guy running on fire? That was WAX); Deano was the singer/guitarist in the NYC band Clowns For Progress. Read More
If you like any sort of professional sport, went to college, or love/hate Larry The Cable Guy the name Steve Hofstetter is a name that could be soon burned into your conscious if it’s not already. Steve’s written for ESPN, Sports Illustrated, been syndicated in a slew of national papers, written books, as well as hosted a variety of radio talk shows about sports. His style of comedy is smart, quick, and mixes his love of sports, culture, and society. He once started a feud* with Larry the Cable Guy, had albums peak at #1 on comedy charts, and is known to post video clips of his encounters with hecklers online. Read More
If you recognize Iliza Shlesinger good! Because she spent some time winning over other comedians on the 6th season of Last Comic Standing. She had her own Comedy Central special this past year, been on late night television shows like Last Call With Carson Daly and Chelsea Lately, she’s even performed steadily around colleges and at various comedy festivals including the coveted Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. So recognizing her means that you are paying attention. Read More
The great thing about sketch comedy is that you have a lot of different people doing a lot of different things in order to make you laugh. Frog Island is the sketch comedy group for the YouTube generation. Not content in doing hacky improve exercises ad nauseum, they perform sketch comedy that deals with race, religion, and social issues (all while being funny of course). Read More
Don’t let his calm southern drawl and relaxed demeanor fool you, Brandon Vestal tells some of the funniest stand-up you haven’t heard yet. Vestal’s stand-up feels less like a comic doing a set and more like one of your buddies telling you a really funny story. The material feels honest, familiar, but most importantly funny. Read More
