Human Giant

If the NY Comedy Festival is at one end of the comedy festival spectrum, then the Del Close Improv Marathon resides at the absolute opposite end...

Human Giant (Rob, Aziz & Paul) @ Bumbershoot 2008 (more by Chris Graham)

Human Giant's Aziz Ansari is going on tour. Human Giant's Paul Scheer appears in the Army Navy video below...

Aziz officially announced this 'Glow in the Dark' tour right in the middle of CMJ causing me to forget to mention this until now... Tickets are on sale for two January shows at Comix in NYC...

Don't shoot video clips of bands on your phone to post on YouTube. They are always shaky and sound like crap. No one cares that you saw Beck from 300 yards away...

Cursive @ Mercury Lounge, NYC - June 3, 2008 (bill shouldis)

today in NYC
* Live at the Trash Bar
* Thao Nguyen @ Mercury Lounge
* The Homosexuals @ Cake Shop
* Lucy Wainwright Roche @ The Living Room
* M83 & Berg Sans Nipple @ Bowery Ballroom
* Paid Dues Hip Hop Festival @ Nokia Theatre
* The Presets &…

Klaus didn't go see Brian Posehn at Comix last night because he (Klaus) came down with some laryngitis or something. Ironically, that is the same reason he (Brian) couldn't tell his jokes when he performed at the Mess With Texas Festival in Austin during SXSW a couple of weeks ago...

In my last Comedy Canon I devoted a lot of keyboard time to news about awesome comedians and the TV shows they're working on. But I totally missed one...

Holy Fuk @ Emo's Annex, Austin, TX - Mar 13, 2008 (Elizabeth Weinberg)

Frightened Rabbit in Austin, TX - Mar 13, 2008 (WOXY)

These are Powers in Austin, TX - March 2008 (Elizabeth Weinberg)

A Place To Bury Strangers in Austin, TX - Mar 14, 2008 (WOXY)

* Pillow fight...

I was wandering around LES, when I stumbled upon this guy was defacing the following movie posters. I went back to scene of the crime the next day...

Q-Tip

KRS-One

Common

* Todd Barry on Conan
* last Invite Them Up EVER
* Henry Rollins is speaking at Warsaw
* Big Head Todd & The Monsters is playing Bowery Ballroom
* Liam Finn is playing w/ Pela & Apollo Sunshine @ Music Hall
* The Acorn is playing w/ Bowerbirds & Phosphorescent @ Union Hall
* …