Email Author Julie Seabaugh

2010 Stories by Julie Seabaugh

• Safe? Not Ansari

  published November 18, 2010

  It's hard to pinpoint exactly when Aziz Ansari came into our collective lives. It's like he emerged from the comedy womb fully formed, a perpetual... More >>

• 2010's Worst DVD, Best Performer

  published November 11, 2010

  I only watched it once, but Why Shit So Crazy? still enrages me all over again on no less than a weekly basis. Here Comedy Central was... More >>

• Bo Fo Now

  published November 11, 2010

  A funny thing happened after Bo Burnham came out of nowhere at the age of 17 to achieve internet superstardom via a 2007 series of satirical,... More >>

• Subversion Meets Shawshank

  published October 28, 2010

  "Paul Provenza," comic Rick Overton recently Facebooked, "has done more for positively changing the comedy world in the 21st century than... More >>

• Story of His Life

  published October 14, 2010

  Mike Birbiglia started young. He appeared on Comedy Central at age 23, Late Night With David Letterman a year later. His self-deprecating albums... More >>

• BEST "I'LL TAKE SUPERVILLIANS FOR $500, ALEX"

  published October 7, 2010

  First Meltdown Comics filled your brain with all things nerdy, geeky and sci-fi-y, and now it's putting that knowledge to good use. The first... More >>

• America's Funniest Animals?

  published September 30, 2010

  Apparently Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz loves him some Super Troopers and Beerfest. So much so that he decided to approach... More >>

• But Thaaat's His Life!

  published September 23, 2010

  "The Reading Festival, as you know, is one of the premier rock & roll nightmare hell festivals of all time," muses Neil Hamburger , America's $1... More >>

• Catch a Risen Star

  published August 19, 2010

  The last time I saw Donald Glover, he was receiving the Montreal Just for Laughs comedy festival's inaugural Rising Comedy Star of the Year award,... More >>

• BRIDGELESS OVER TROUBLED WATER

  published August 12, 2010

  It used to be about the music, man! Now it's all about critical success, adoring fans across the globe, appearing on The Tonight Show and... More >>

• KING OF CORROSIVE

  published August 12, 2010

  Though Lewis Black doesn't smoke, he does consider himself pro-legalization. "I would be thrilled if they could finally figure it out," The... More >>

• ELEGANTLY SATIRED

  published May 6, 2010

  If satire is your idea of high art, comic/filmmaker Paul Provenza (The Aristocrats, Showtime's The Green Room) and photographer Dan... More >>

• ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT (THURSDAY NIGHT, THAT IS)

  published April 22, 2010

  "I believe the children are our future," a wise, pre-Being Bobby Brown woman once sang. "Teach them well and let them lead the way." And since... More >>

• COMICS WHO WILL NOT BOMB

  published February 5, 2010

  "A group of Arabs are planning to take over the Comedy Store," warns Palestinian-blooded Dean Obeidallah (pictured). Fortunately the comedian and... More >>

• OH TRANNY BOY

  published January 28, 2010

  A time line of recent Eddie Izzard exploits: April-August 2008 -- completes 34 U.S. tour dates of new show, Stripped. July-September 2009... More >>

• SING IT, SISTERS

  published January 28, 2010

  "These Are the Things I Can't F**king Remember." "The United States Extreme Right-Wing Cheerleading Squad." "Saving My Hymen For Jesus." Not... More >>

• Hamburger Sinatra Jr.

  published January 7, 2010

  Prolific standup, celebrity barb-slinger Neil Hamburger is no stranger to the musical side of this business we call show, having seen his 2008... More >>