Steve Agee

The 2023 SXSW Comedy lineup also includes Doug Loves Movies, improv4humans, Maltin on Movies, ASSSSCAT, Patton Oswalt, Todd Barry, James Adomian, and more.

Smashing Pumpkins, Slash, Steve Albini, Gene Simmons, Tom Morello, Nile Rodgers, Machine Gun Kelly, Billy Idol, Garbage, Jimmy Eat World, Lars Ulrich, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, and many more also paid tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer.

Read tributes from Georgia Hardstark, Paul F Tompkins, Scott Aukerman, Ted Leo, Emily Gordon, Tom Scharpling, Har Mar Superstar, and more.

Comedy Central's internet meme game show @Midnight sometimes has musicians on to mix it up with pro comedians and last night Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis appeared alongside Steve Agee and occasional BV contributor Dave Hill. Despite his super-chill, laconic style, J held his own on this fast-paced show, getting in good cracks on global warming and the show's Hashtag Wars segment...

This year's lineup includes Kids in the Hall, tributes to 'King of the Hill,' Fred Williard, Talking Heads movie 'True Stories,' tons of live podcasts and much more.

Last week, Adult Swin oddity (is that reduntant?) "Too Many Cooks" took the world by storm with its brilliantly strange (eventually disturbing) homage to TV opening credits sequences of the '70s / '80s / '90s...