Local comic Will Bolt takes the dimly lit stage, finds his light and says, “I’m 33, and I just recently started smoking pot, [...]

Comedy heals in unexpected ways. It breaks through our hard inner core in means that can’t be articulated. Local comedian Rusty Rutherford has [...]

There’s a belief in comedy that goes a little something like, “Comics are tragic people who are sad and lonely and probably on [...]

Chomps is a cat, and she has a lot to say. For the past two years, she’s had her own call-in podcast show [...]

When beginning a career in comedy the question most often asked is, “How do you write a joke?” It varies of course. There [...]

A few days after the UCSB shooting, in which a 22-year old gunman killed six people and injured 13 others, I sat down [...]

Twitter, Vine and YouTube have made people a lot of money. Comics take advantage of these digital platforms for their work and, for [...]

The voice on the other end of the phone said, “This is Marc. What you got?” I tumbled into a manic existential crisis. [...]

When a female comic performs she is breaking gender norms. Her mere presence onstage asks the audience to do away with stereotypical binaries [...]

The draw to comedy is strong. It angers us, offends us, heals us and for some of us, it defines an entire life. [...]