Not long after discovering a gift for mimicking famous movie actors, Kevin Pollak pursued a career in stand-up comedy. In the 1980s, that talent actually helped improve his acting skills, landin
Some stand-up comics have a hard time with acting roles. Dustin Ybarra says the key is having a high threshold of boredom. “I feel stand-up takes so much more work,” he says from his apartment in
Long before trying stand-up comedy, Andy Woodhull was stockpiling jokes. “In high school I read in a book that Jerry Seinfeld wrote that he kept a notebook and wrote funny things down in it.” Wood
If you haven’t done so already, add Ryan Singer to the list of comics from the area making a splash on the national comedy scene. Singer regularly features for Marc Maron and also headlines ar
Though he tries to deny it, Robert Hawkins is one of America’s best joke writers. “If you look at Twitter,” he says, “I’m not even in the top 100. I just have an instinct for writing jokes.
The sixth annual Brew Ha-Ha is upon us. Saturday's headliner Carlos Alazraqui is probably best known as Officer James Garcia on Comedy Central’s Reno 911!.
Alonzo Bodden is perhaps best known as the winner of the third season of Last Comic Standing a few years back. The former airline mechanic charmed audiences with his easygoing observational comedy and
Fans of Christian Rock will be heading to southern Indiana this weekend for the Rock the World Christian Music Fest at the Holiday World theme park in the town of Santa Claus. Cincinnati’s own Moste
“I’m a little anti-establishment,” says comedian Kevin Brennan. “Anyone who says this is what you should behave like — that’s a crock of shit. I think I get that from my dad’s side of th
Most guitar-slinging comedians offer their audiences a bit of traditional stand-up during a set. Not Mark Eddie. “Pretty much the whole show is guitar. Basically, that’s what I do,” says t