By Steve Hofstetter On stage, Tommy Savitt is simple. His delivery is slow and measured and his character is the id run amuck. “You know how many marriages I’ve saved?” Savitt asks on stage. “Once you cheat on him with me, you’ll never do it again.” Savitt finishes the bit with his trademark question, “Who [...]
By Steve Hofstetter Find a sacred cow and comedian Tom Simmons will gut it and serve it for dinner. He’s got material criticizing patriotism, supporting Tiger Woods, even lampooning Martin Luther King Jr. for his infidelity. He actually does those last two in the same joke. “All I care about is Tigers golf,” Simmons says [...]
By Steve Hofstetter Known best for her scathing roasts and even dubbed “The Queen of Mean,” Lisa Lampanelli has never been accused of being a nice person. Except by almost everyone she’s ever worked with. “I am absolutely aware that I am a softy offstage,” Lampanelli said. “From what I heard, so is Rickles.” Lampanelli’s [...]
By Steve Hofstetter Greg Fitzsimmons has won four Emmy Awards, has his own show on Sirius/XM, and has over 50 TV appearances. He’s a regular on Howard Stern, Letterman, Conan, and seemingly everything that’s ever aired on VH1. His podcast is wildly successful, his book “Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons” did incredibly well, and he’s about to [...]
By Steve Hofstetter I asked Myq Kaplan if he could tell me the smartest thing he’d done for his career. “The smartest thing I ever did,” Myq said, “was answer this question humbly.” I’d argue that the smartest thing he ever did was long before he became a comedian – to channel the teasing that [...]
By Steve Hofstetter – Special to the SunPost Doug Benson’s The Benson Interruption is comedy progress, and not just in format. A new spin on the tired comedy showcase, the show is simultaneously classic and contemporary, and hilariously different. Just like Benson himself. The show was born as a live performance in Los Angeles, moved [...]
By Steve Hofstetter Three years ago, Marc Maron was broke, twice divorced, and thinking of quitting. Not the quitting the business – quitting life. “I thought about suicide a lot,” Maron recalled in his trademark neurotic way. “Not because I really wanted to kill myself. I just found it relaxing to know that I could [...]
People In The Community You Should Know: Lisa Corrao – Funny Girl Who are you? I’m a stand-up comedian! I also have a couple of pretty cool side gigs…I do the Festival Flea Market Commercials AND host my own comedy radio show called, The Jerk Show that you can listen to at www.thejerkshow.com. What do [...]
