If your dad was as funny as he thinks he is, he’d be Aaron Aryanpur, the relatable family man who just happens to be the funniest comic in Texas. You might already know him from the wildly popular comics-talking-about-their-kids podcast, Minivan Men. There are some things you only learn if you have children, for instance:…
Adam Quesnell grew up in Northern Minnesota, where most of what he learned about the wider world came from TV. He learned about date rape and AIDS, that wildebeests get stomped on the yard, and that it’s utterly reasonable that no one goes to the most dangerous places in the universe. That’s not a failure…
Remember the despair of 2014? When Adam Quesnell released his first full-length Stand Up! Records album, we had despair, it was just… different. We had discomfort and fear and disgust, too, but we were fairly sure that the arc of history was bending away from genocide. Now, the world is haphazardly led by a truly gross, fear-mongering…
An interracial harbinger of the great wave of Central Americans “humping their way north,” television and stand up stand out Al Madrigal is living proof that, while a half Mexican in a sailor suit might grow up fast, he’ll also grow up funny. On his new Stand Up! Records release, “Half Breed,” Madrigal’s charming stage…
Every American woman knows that “princess” marks you as special, lovely, wonderful until you’re about twelve. From that point on, it’ll be used to keep you in your place. Well, screw being a princess. Alysia Wood’s comedy royalty, all right, but in this monarchy, she’s the monarch: responsible enough to know she’s irresponsible, smart enough…
Remember the first time your parents left you home alone and within the first hour you somehow found your way into your big brother’s 2 Live Crew albums, your dad’s secret porn stash, and your mom’s flask of Goldschlager she kept hidden inside a pair of her fancy shoes she told you to never go…
Whether he’s falcon-hunting or reminiscing about the days when college girls checked him out (instead of keeping an eye on him), Andy Ritchie’s one to watch. With fresh, quick-witted comedy that evokes any number of influential greats, Ritchie’s first stand-up record seems to summon some of the classic silliness of Steve Martin (sans banjo) tempered…
Whereas: Snakes can smell with their tongues, hear through their skin, and get by on as few as six meals a year. Whereas the world’s smallest snake is 2” long, the world’s largest is roughly 38’ long, and a 60 million-year-old snake fossil found in Colombia measures over 50’. Whereas snakes can live up to…