Julie Seabaugh

It's no longer enough merely to be funny. Today comedians must take a much more enterprising role in their careers, creating their own projects, actively cultivating engaged fan bases and self-marketing unique styles and personas. Here are some of the individuals and groups who are not only attracting industry attention......

Local comedy is more vibrant than ever, with new rooms, unexplored concepts and fresh talent emerging continually. Though consuming the full scope of the scene's annual output remains a challenge for even hardcore fans, Los Angeles's top stand-up-centric CDs, DVDs, books and films of the year provide a helpful jumping-off......

Four stages, seven hours, one of the most impressive gatherings of musical-comedy acts ever assembled (plus Neil Hamburger). On Saturday October 19, Tenacious D's inaugural Festival Supreme brings the likes of Adam Sandler, the Mr. Show Experience, Monty Python's Eric Idle, Sarah Silverman, Reggie Watts and many more together on......

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A standing crowd of 200 welcomed L.A.'s newest alternative-comedy offering, lauded New York City transplant Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen, to The Virgil cocktail bar Monday night. Nattily-dressed titular duo Kurt Braunohler (IFC's Bunk, Chelsea Lately) and Kristen Schaal (30 Rock, Flight of the Conchords) kicked things off promptly......

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 Even as Scott Aukerman's Comedy Bang! Bang! continues to build momentum as an IFC talk/sketch series and Earwolf podcast, the earliest incarnation of the brand, a long-running live show originally named Comedy Death-Ray,......

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles *How Best Fish Taco in Ensenada Became a (Twice a Month) Comedy Club Audiences may be more fractured than ever before, but they're also more loyal to performers who cut though the din to foster personal connections under the guise......

Revered standup and actor Kevin Pollak's new autobiography, How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs , fulfills precisely what its subtitle promises, chronicling his rise as an formidable impressionist and standout player in The Usual Suspects, A Few Good Men and......