Reggie Watts: When the Going Gets Weird...

Reggie Watts: When the Going Gets Weird...

Backstage at Atlanta’s Plaza Theatre, Reggie Watts is pondering what it means to be weird. Or, perhaps, more accurately, how to stay weird.  read more

Louis C.K. Announces Tour Dates

Louis C.K. Announces Tour Dates

Louis C.K. will head out on a nationwide tour starting in October, and in a similar fashion to the Live At The Beacon Theater exclusive DVD sale on his website, he is only selling tickets himself, for a flat rate....  read more

Listen to Jack White on Marc Maron's WTF Podcast

Listen to Jack White on Marc Maron's WTF Podcast

If you’ve ever wanted to experience an aural slice of the inside of Third Man Records, look no further than this week’s episode of Marc Maron’s podcast, WTF With Marc Maron, which features an hour-long interview with none other than the Third Man himself, Jack White....  read more

Jerry Seinfeld and Marc Maron to Appear on Louie

Jerry Seinfeld and Marc Maron to Appear on <i>Louie</i>

Louis C.K.‘s hit FX comedy Louie is about to enter its third season, and not surprisingly, a few notable comedians will be making guest appearances. During a press conference for Madagascar 3, Chris Rock, who appeared on Louie’s season 2 finale, revealed that Jerry Seinfeld had called him from the set of the show....  read more

Patton Oswalt and Marc Maron Get in Hilarious Tweet Fight During Flight

Patton Oswalt and Marc Maron Get in Hilarious Tweet Fight During Flight

Two comedians, one flight. Upon discovering their shared skytime, Patton Oswalt and Marc Maron took to tweeting hilarious jabs at one another. And although it’s all in good fun, we certainly can’t get enough of their snark. This could be the beginning of a beautiful (and absolutely hilarious) friendship. Check out their conversation below....  read more

Hannibal Buress to Release Animal Furnace Stand-Up Special

Hannibal Buress to Release <i>Animal Furnace</i> Stand-Up Special

Comedian, former SNL writer and current 30 Rock scribe Hannibal Buress will be receiving his first hour-long Comedy Central special, Hannibal Buress: Animal Furnace, later this month.  read more

10 Essential Podcasts (Not Called WTF)

10 Essential Podcasts (Not Called WTF)

It’s no secret at this point: the comedy-podcast market has become completely over-saturated. To help wade through the ocean of laughs, here’s a quick round-up of some essential podcasts, sporting all the colors of the comedy rainbow.  read more

Natasha Leggero’s Re-Invention & Self-Improvement Tips

Natasha Leggero’s Re-Invention & Self-Improvement Tips

The sordid and the fabulous become one on Natasha Leggero’s debut stand-up album, 2011’s Coke Money. The hilarious comedienne recently took some time to explain to the rest of us heathens how to keep it classy—and mask any déclassé regional accents you might have.  read more

TV's Girls: A Venn Diagram

TV's Girls: A Venn Diagram

A look at the intersection between Girls, New Girl and Two Broke Girls.  read more

Exquisite Tweet: A Story Told 140 Characters at a Time

Exquisite Tweet: A Story Told 140 Characters at a Time

We reached out to 15 great Twitterers to play a game of exquisite corpse, telling a story in 140 characters or fewer apiece. The result is bizarre. And hilarious.  read more

Hannibal Buress: Way More Work To Do

Hannibal Buress: Way More Work To Do

Buress discusses performing in sold-out theaters with Aziz Ansari, his upcoming special, Animal Furnace (Comedy Central, May 20), the two television shows he's now working on, and the difficulties that come with portraying a homeless man.  read more

Marc Maron’s Five Comedians to Watch in 2012

Marc Maron’s Five Comedians to Watch in 2012

We asked Marc Maron for a few of his favorite up-and-coming comics—the folks we should all be seeking out for laughs in 2012. When he got talking about these young talents, his passion for the craft took over in the same informed, thoughtful way it does every week on WTF. No one cried, though.  read more

A Little Dirtier: Ukes and Yuks Duo Garfunkel And Oates on Foul Mouths & HBO Dreams

A Little Dirtier: Ukes and Yuks Duo Garfunkel And Oates on Foul Mouths & HBO Dreams

Kate Micucci didn’t swear “at all” until she started working with Riki Lindhome. The pair have since recorded three albums: Slippery When Moist, All Over Your Face and their 2009 debut, Music Songs, which was early enough in their creative process to not have a dirty title.   read more

Aziz Ansari: Business, Major

Aziz Ansari: Business, Major

The dangerously delicious comedian talks swagger, success and going it alone.  read more

John Mulaney: New in Town

John Mulaney: <em>New in Town</em>

Modeling himself after the comedic stylings of Bob Newhart, Jack Benny and Woody Allen, 29-year-old John Mulaney, Saturday Night Live writer/producer and creator of viral sensation Stefon Zolesky, is a decidedly old soul. And on his second album, New in Town, the young stand up has discovered that his best material is about the grown-up-before-his-time dude he looks at in the mirror every day.   read more

Kyle Kinane: Death of the Party Reissue

Kyle Kinane: <em>Death of the Party</em> Reissue

There have been very few stand-up albums that scream out for a vinyl release, but Kyle Kinane’s Death of the Party definitely merits the treatment. The heavy-metal-esque cover art alone is frame-worthy. But it’s also worth celebrating that the album, easily one of 2010’s most essential stand-up records, is being revisited.  read more

Patrice O’Neal: Mr. P

Patrice O’Neal: <em>Mr. P</em>

On the final album he recorded before he passed away last year, Patrice O’Neal says as he gets older his mind gets dirtier. Uh, bro, we could tell that already. Mr. P finds O’ Neal in uproariously unfettered form, attacking every single sensibility any audience member could possibly have, and getting as much joy from the “He just said what?” laughs as from the arm-crossed scolds. (It’s always good to have a few of those in the audience, he notes. Keeps it more fun.)  read more

Watch a Clip from Patton Oswalt's Finest Hour Special

Watch a Clip from Patton Oswalt's <i>Finest Hour</i> Special

Patton Oswalt announced yesterday the release of his extended and uncensored Finest Hour DVD. The footage comes from Oswalt’s Comedy Central special of the same name, which is set to air on April 21 at 10 p.m. EST.  read more

Rob Delaney's Moment of Comedic Clarity

Rob Delaney's Moment of Comedic Clarity

Not everyone likes the outsized persona Rob Delaney uses to foist sometimes-very-lewd, albeit-tiny jokes onto the Internet, but in a scant three years, he’s become Twitter royalty.  read more

Bonnaroo Announces 2012 Comedy Lineup

Bonnaroo Announces 2012 Comedy Lineup

Bonnaroo announced its comedy lineup today that is in addition to the previously announced headliner Aziz Ansari. The festival, which runs from June 7-10 in Manchester, Tenn., already announced its music lineup that features Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bon Iver, and now they have added the 15-comedian lineup.  read more

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