Tom Papa’s first stand-up comedy album in six years hit the digital shelves this week. As expected, Live in New York City is a good one to say the least. Specifically, it speaks to our time more so than most recent comedy albums, and does not disappoint in terms of laughter. In his own un-sugarcoated and vibrant voice, the veteran ...
We recently had the distinct pleasure to meet up with and ask wrestling legend Mick Foley a couple questions. Topics included his new career as a stand-up comedian, if he thinks comedy is harder than wrestling, and a pretty amazing item he’s putting up for charity. Hint, the item was given to him by Jon Stewart during a ...
Today Pandora announced the incorporation of comedy programming into its web programming. The Laugh Button is excited about Pandora’s decision to take steps in the same direction we did when our player launched five years ago and help expose the world to the art of stand-up. We think both our player and theirs will strengthen support for comedians, comedy ...
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Recently we teamed up with the folks at Laugh Stub to bring you a new ticket store here on TheLaughButton.com. It's our goal to expose our readers to as much comedy as possible and this partnership takes things to the next level.
If you ...
In news that would make any working comedian from the past twenty years weep, The Naked Cowboy is set to get his own monthly show at Carolines Comedy Club on Broadway. "The World's Most Celebrated Entertainer. An American Legend. A New York City icon," as he describes himself, is going to be doing a monthly stand up ...
From Indecision…
Think of the most exciting, important, high-stakes, political debate that you can devise inside your mind, one that is so pertinent to the world we live in today that its happening would almost certainly reshape the world around it.
Have you got it? Good.
That was fun, wasn't it? Oh, by the way, this thing, I [...]
In case you missed it Sunday, the New York Times got Nov. 1 confused for April 1, because the Arts section and the Sunday magazine both devoted plenty of ink to the comedy business. Let’s see how they did! In…
By Jason Tanamor, Zoiks! Online
Wow, talk about getting the shaft on late night. Or should I say, giving the shaft? In an article on NYPost.com, “A female former staff writer for David Letterman said the comedian's late-night operation was a hostile, sexually charged, male-dominated bastion where women didn't climb the ladder unless they ...
