Anthony D'Alessandro

If you’re under 30 and never listened to Emo Philips because of his goofy album covers or because everyone else was into Eddie Murphy, you’re missing out. Seeing Philips is on par with watching one of the great comedy standards live; from Jay Leno returning to form outside of his......

Melinda Hill, the queen bee of chat-room comedy, is taking her next production into the present century. Along with her A-list Rolodex of alter-lounge beauties, Hill is tub-thumping a multimedia extravaganza complete with bands (this week: the suave Lampshades), short films (Channel 101 filmmaker Dawn Cody) and a dance party......

For all the girls out there who never hooked up with Dane Cook, there’s another cute comedian to chase down the street: Steve Byrne. He’s half Korean, half Irish (Byrne prefers the label Cauc-Asian), is extremely physical and makes lots of noises — on stage that is. Sporting a hyper,......

Comedy might come in threes, but comedy teams come in twos, from Abbott and Costello to Odenkirk and Cross. Add Chris and David Walsh to the list of hilarious twosomes — a pair who, if they ever crossed the Sklar brothers in an alley, would probably deliver wedgies to the......

As a recent divorcé, Nick Griffin revels in a life of dirty laundry, frozen pizza and porno. “It’s like being a private eye, without any cases,” exclaims the comedian. Then again, bachelorhood has its drawbacks. “You’re only single in your 20s. When you’re 30 — you’re alone,” gripes Griffin. If......

Neil Campbell and Paul Rust are like those college geeks who would taunt the frat boys — yucksters who’d stick a sleeping jock’s hand in a bowl of warm water. Their latest sketch show, Growing Up Is Tough, takes a jab at bratty teenagers, the types who get turned loose......

Charlyne Yi’s antics have been known to evoke a lot of emotion. Once during a performance at Alcoholics Anonymous, a cantankerous woman heckled her. “I thought she was going to beat me up. She was huge!” exclaims the petite Yi. At a biker-bar comedy gig, Yi played the clarinet, reducing......

Destry Pharis is a repo woman whose car was repossessed by her father. As Destry works her debt off to Dad, also in the repo trade, she reckons her Odessa (a.k.a. Slowdeatha), Texas, lifestyle might need some feng shui — a bit of an epiphany before she becomes a walking......