comedy Archive
25 Oct 2019
Rhapsodizing with Rick Wakeman
Legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman is perhaps best known for his work with Yes, a group he has joined and quit at least five times since the early ’90s. But the […]
19 Oct 2019
Asheville Improv Comedy Fest: Planning to Improvise
Improvisation is performance without a net: there’s no script and no direction. The actors onstage succeed or fail on the strength of their quick wit and ability to work together. […]
02 Sep 2019
Welcome to Cadillac Baby’s Show Lounge: The Bea & Baby Boxed Set
From the perspective of crate-diggers – amateur and professional music archivists alike – one of the great benefits of the digital age has been the rescuing of obscure recordings. Against […]
27 Aug 2019
Televisionary: Josh Mills discusses TV Comedy Pioneer Ernie Kovacs (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … My first exposure to Kovacs was the PBS retrospective series, which I guess was in the late ’70s. Yeah. This record came out in ’76. […]
26 Aug 2019
Televisionary: Josh Mills discusses TV Comedy Pioneer Ernie Kovacs (Part One)
There was no precedent for the comedy of Ernie Kovacs. A pioneering figure in the early days of television, Kovacs brought a bizarre kind of comedy – mostly verbal, but […]
29 Dec 2018
Video Roundup 2018
Covering DVDs and Blu-Rays takes more time than reviewing albums; I have to set up in my living room, with a recliner, a couple of cats and (generally) a good […]
18 Jun 2018
Album Review: Mel Henke — 77 Sunset Strip-per
For a lot of Americans in the late 1950s and ‘60s, jazz wasn’t something they went to clubs to hear. If they heard it at all, jazz was often presented […]
11 Feb 2018
Album Review: Pocket Fishrmen – The Greatest Story Ever Told
Wow; here’s a weird one. Imagine, if you will, that Dead Kennedys were a comedy band. One from Austin, Texas. Now imagine that they stayed together for three decades, making […]
30 Dec 2016
Best of 2016: Interviews
In 2016 alone, I’ve interviewed more than 140 artists; that’s nearly half the number I interviewed in the decade prior to this year. I hope 2017 will be at least […]