The Best in Stand-Up Comedy

Just before the finale of Last Comic Standing, Punchline Magazine’s Matthew Gill had a great chat with comedian Mike DeStefano, who landed in the final five of the NBC competition show. But honestly, his appearances on the show had nothing to do with us wanting to meet up with the man.
We’ve been quietly following his [...]

When Eddie Murphy first crooned of a lady fair whose primary ambitions lay within the realm of “partying all the time,” he may just as well have been speaking of Margaret Cho. Already raucous, fun, and thrill-seeking, there seems to be no territory left to be unturned by the formidable stand-up star.
And as if a [...]

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World famous comedy venue Carolines on Broadway and Punchline Magazine have joined forces to present the Breakout Artist Comedy Series. Each Tuesday, at Carolines in New York City, an emerging stand-up comedy [...]

We’ve been following the bubbling rise of Whitney Cummings’ career for the last few years. An East Coast transplant living in Hollywood, she’s made a name for herself writing for the ultra popular Comedy Central roasts and then getting in front of the cameras for the first time at a roast last year, where she [...]

In a new installment of our interview series A Tight Five, we sit down with LA-based comedian Chris Fairbanks in the green room of the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, CO, where he performed earlier this summer, part of the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival.
We get into Chris’ unique joke-telling style, a story of redemption involving [...]

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World famous comedy venue Carolines on Broadway and Punchline Magazine have joined forces to present the Breakout Artist Comedy Series. Each Tuesday, at Carolines in New York City, [...]

Just days after comedian Felipe Esparza took first place in NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Punchline Magazine’s Matthew Gill sat down with the winner in East LA to chat about Felipe’s $250,000 check, how young comics should handle the craft and much more. Check it out.

And to get a taste of Felipe’s comedy, check out his [...]

How does one relatively unknown comedian rise above the pack? And what does his story of struggle have to do with the rest of the stand-up comedy world? Salty Language, Peppered Morals, the little comedy documentary that could, tries to get some answers.
The film’s title alone is enough to spring the mind to an immediate, [...]

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World famous comedy venue Carolines on Broadway and Punchline Magazine have joined forces to present the Breakout Artist Comedy Series. Each Tuesday, at Carolines in New York City, an emerging [...]

Synchronicity in Montreal
I seem to have a knack for running into people. There are other knacks I’d like to acquire, but when there’s a pattern in your life, you’re supposed to recognize it, and acknowledge it, and it’s definitely a pattern in my life.
Richie Tienken, the owner of The Comic Strip, and I went up [...]