This week, Gregg Gethard tries out the evil side of comedy.
Last week Dave Walk wrote about how much he loved pro wrestling growing up and how funny it is. I have said, many times, that I think professional wrestling is America’s greatest form of art. But, I can assure you, [...]
Veteran Philadelphia comics The Legendary Wid (left) and John Kensil (right) join the show to talk about the city’s comedy past, their careers and to share a few words of advice for young comics.
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But that’s not all from Animosity Pierre! The guys have passed along the good news that they have been accepted into the 2010 Chicago Sketchfest! Chicago, you may not have the Olympics, but you’ve got AP.
Even more Animosity Pierre, you say? We’ll how about you check out the sketch [...]
There are so many comedians podcasting now, that’s it’s worth reviewing each week. So I’ll try to listen when I can and describe what I hear….
- Marc Maron tracks down Zach Galifianakis on a movie set in New Mexico and does his best to compliment him…yet fails. Later in the [...]
This week I’ll talk to longtime Philadelphia comics The Legendary Wid (left) and John Kensil (right) about the city’s comedy past, their careers over the years and a whole lot more. That’s tonight from 7-8PM EST on Gtownradio.com. And as a programming note, there will be no show [...]
Ok, confession time: I was a fan of pro wrestling in high school. Yes, my Monday nights were often flipping between WCW Monday Night and WWF’s Raw is War. Characters like The Rock, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Diamond Dallas Page filled my evenings as I ate crappy pizza with [...]
- Kent Haines makes his Comedy Central debut on tonight’s episode of Live at Gotham at 11PM EST. Kumail Nanjiani, Nick Kroll and more are also on the show. Paul F. Tompkins hosts! Also, Philadelphia-raised TuRae was on last week’s episode.
- More good news for Kent: the set [...]
Well, the baseball season is over as hometown boys weren’t able to pull it out last night in Game 6. The New York Yankees are World Champions once again. Many outside of the Big Apple will be stewing over the next year as the “Evil Empire” has won again. Bill [...]
As their original post says – “And only a day after Halloween! Not bad!!”
Happy Halloween two days ago!
[...]This week, Gregg Gethard performs on a new show in Philadelphia.
Last night was awesome.
It was one of those nights that reminded me why I love performing comedy so much. The guys from Camp Woods, this new sketch group who have burst upon the local comedy scene with the fiery intensity [...]
By this time, it appears that we’ve heard everything dirty that you can imagine. Although people are still offended by jokes in certain contexts, there aren’t too many things that are surprisingly too dirty. But that doesn’t mean that dirty jokes aren’t still funny, which Philly stand-up Doogie Horner [...]
Now in it’s second year, the Philly Sketchfest will be held from December 3-5 at the Plays and Players Theatre (1714 Delancey Place). Since last year’s inaugural run, the fest has certainly grown, even inviting sketch groups from Chicago and New York to perform this time. The other new [...]
Holy moly, folks! The Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black show for this Thursday has been postponed! I don’t know exactly why, but this does mean that you’ll be able to watch Game 2 of the World Series. Although you were probably doing that already anyway. Hm, maybe that’s why [...]
I ask you, Ladies and Gentlemen, what are you doing this Thursday evening? Care to see the very funny Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black for free at The Troc? If so, we are giving away two tickets to see the stars of the Comedy Central show Michael and [...]
This week, Gregg Gethard travels to the faraway land that they call Delaware.
Today’s a big comedy week for me. I actually managed to get on two real shows, which is the first time this has happened to me. This is a really good sign, especially I was invited to do [...]
There’s the Philadelphia Improv Festival, Philly Sketchfest and now the Philadelphia Pub Crawl Comedy Festival. Or maybe it’s a “tour”. No matter what it’s called, New York’s Luke Cunningham and Philly’s Tommy Papa are putting the shows together to showcase some funny stand-up comics from the two [...]
Philadelphia acoustic duo Emily and Micah McGraw join host Dave Walk to talk about tasers, living on the West Coast and more. They also play a song live in the studio (and a segment of one in the works) and even give some life advice to a troubled caller. [...]
It’s been over five years since comedian David Cross last released a comedy album (It’s Not Funny). Since then he hasn’t done too much stand-up, choosing to pursue a career in television and film with varying results instead. He was lauded as Tobias Fünke in Fox’s cult-classic Arrested Development [...]
Christian folk duo GOD’S POTTERY joins the show. They were finalists on the final season of Last Comic Standing, have a live EP of songs on Comedy Central Records, and released this past Tuesday their book What Would God’s Pottery Do?: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Your Teens [...]
The C vs. A Radio Hour is back tonight from 7-8PM EST with our friends at Gtownradio.com (The Sound From Germantown). I’ll be talking to comedians, playing not-funny songs and other great stuff, so make sure to set your internet dial to Gtownradio.com.
What is the meaning of [...]
Earlier this month the lineup for the Philadelphia Improv Festival, now in its fifth year, was released on the festival’s website. The festival has been grown bigger with every passing year and like usual the lineup is a good mix of local groups with out-of-towners (this time from [...]
What are you doing this Friday? How about seeing God’s Pottery at The Trocadero for free? We are giving away a pair of tickets to see the Christian acoustic duo that you may have seen on the last season of Last Comic Standing sharing their lessons of abstinence, friendship [...]
Stand-up comic Michael Loftus has been hitting the internet marketing pretty hard for his new special tonight at 10PM EST, even recording special messages to comedy blogs. And wouldn’t you know it, I can’t stop from embedding his mention of this silly, little website below:
And here’s the clip [...]
Abstract dancing. Technological art. Performers piled up on top of each other. It’s time again for the 16-day Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival. And while there will be some weird shows over the next two weeks, there will also be a lot of great comedy shows. Below is [...]
Last week a new non-profit theater organization popped up on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere by the name of The Philadelphia Joke Initiative. It’s the work of Alexis Simpson, former Artistic Director of the Philly Improv Theater and member of the improv groups Rare Bird Show (profile), Illegal [...]
Brendan Kennedy (profile) at the special moon installment of Chip Chantry’s One-Man Show w/ Special Guests in July.
[...]The Boston Comedy Festival starts this weekend and Philly stand-up comedians Doogie Horner (profile), Conrad Roth (profile), Pete Kuempel (profile) (who lives up by New York now, but still counts) and Anton Shuford will be heading up to perform and compete in the contest. Anton will try [...]
Our comedy talk show is back tonight from 7-8PM EST with our friends at Gtownradio.com (The Sound From Germantown). I’ll be talking to comedians, playing not-funny songs and other great stuff, so make sure to set your internet dial to Gtownradio.com.
This week Philadelphia sketch group THE [...]
It’s been almost a week since Michael “Ron Mexico” Vick joined the Philadelphia Eagles and the town is still talking about it. But did you know that Vick isn’t the first athlete in the city to have a history of animal cruelty? The video below from Johnny Goodtimes and Chip [...]
The next edition of Bedtime Stories is entitled “The Rhythm of the Night.” (show info) At this show, we will discuss the particulars of nightlife — what it’s like to get dressed up for an overpriced night on the town which can, and often does, result in STD transmission.
Performing [...]
This weekend there won’t be too much improv comedy in Philadelphia (except for the shows to your right), but there are a handful of groups performing in New York City at the 11th Annual Del Close Marathon at the UCB Theatre.
The Philadelphia groups heading up to New [...]
The Database is slowly, but surely growing. If you are a comedian in the Philadelphia area, don’t forget to submit yourself: Stand-up | Sketch group | Improv group
Steve Balbier
Mikey Gleason
Charles Kuski
Blake Wexler
Brandon Scott Wolf
By the way, we [...]
Our comedy talk show is back tonight from 7-8PM EST with our friends at Gtownradio.com (The Sound From Germantown). Your host Dave Walk will be talking to comedians, playing not-funny songs and other great stuff, so make sure to set your internet dial to Gtownradio.com.
This week [...]
So after two long weeks of competition and too many misspellings of the word “funniest”, a winner has been decided. At the Phinals last night (hey-o!), the judges, comprised of comedians (Kevin Brennan, B-Phlat), industry folks and other Philadelphia media members voted Anton Shuford as the 2009 Philly’s Phunniest Person.
Jared [...]
Ladies and Gentleman, from this evening’s two packed shows, your Philly’s Phunniest Person Finalists are in no particular order:
Doogie Horner
Pat House
Chip Chantry
Anton Shuford
Jared Gillespie
Ed McGongical
David Ray
Jack Martin
Sunday night’s 7PM show will decide who wins all the marbles (that’s a phrase, right?). I don’t [...]
Ladies and Gentleman, all good things must come to an end. And with not-so-heavy heads we must announce the end of The Comic Vs. Audience Comedy Show at the Shubin Theatre. Yes, dear readers, this is the end…the end.
But luckily, we’ll be going out with a bang in [...]
Our Database is progressing well so far! If you are a comedian in the Philadelphia area, don’t forget to submit yourself: Stand-up | Sketch group | Improv group
The Action Section
Animosity Pierre
Bedtime Stories
Cubed
The Greggulator
Hertzog, Aaron
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There have been whispers about it and finally it is actually true, The Sound of Young America and The Monsters of Podcasting will be performing live at this year’s Fringe Fest.
The Sound of Young America, hosted by Jesse Thorn, is a public radio show and podcast “about things that are [...]
Here is the winning entry from this past Monday’s “One Giant Laugh For Mankind” show hosted by Chip Chantry at The Khyber. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of man’s first lunar landing, all live and video sketches had to be about space, include a ring pop as a prop and the [...]
Pure Asbestos Insulation brings you the second installment of Where’s My Butthole, a Detective Richard Spoolding Mystery. Featuring your favorite gumshoe, Dick Spalding as Detective Richard Spoolding. Costarring Jim DeLancey as Spoolding’s right-hand-man, James DoLuncey, and the lovely MJ Flanigan as Spoolding’s secretary and main squeeze, Mary Jane Flonnigan.
Written by [...]
Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to the new Comicvsaudience website! Call it 2.0!
There will be more features rolled out soon, but here are the main additions for now:
- The Database will be an ever growing list of current comedians in the city of Philadelphia. The goal is to compile a complete [...]
Ah, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?. The hit PBS show by way of educational computer game turned more kids on to geography than anything else. Americans aren’t that good at geography, after all, what’s the point of learning about the OTHER areas of the world? You may remember [...]
This Thursday through Saturday, the Philly Improv Theater will present the first-ever all-female comedy festival in the city by the name of “Bonerama.” It’s the brainchild of Alexis Simpson, Artistic Director of PHIT (member of Illegal Refill and Rare Bird Show), Meg Favreau, Managing Director of PHIT (stand-up [...]
Illegal Refill are a Philadelphia improv group made up of Nick Kerrr, Nick Mirra, Amie Roe, Scott Sheppard, and Alexis Simpson. In this podcast, Amie and the Nicks talk about their monthly show at Studio 34 and perform an improv set live on-air.
The group will be performing at [...]
Illegal Refill are a Philadelphia improv group made up of Nick Kerrr, Nick Mirra, Amie Roe, Scott Sheppard, and Alexis Simpson. In this podcast, Amie and the Nicks talk about their monthly show at Studio 34 and perform an improv set live on-air.The group will be performing at [...]
These videos speak for themselves, but from the Youtube description: Pat House is very funny young comedian. Occasionally when he performs a moron walks out behind him BUT- never disrupts his act.
That moron is the one and only John Kensil. [...]
Our bi-weekly comedy talk show returns tonight from 7-8PM EST with our friends at Gtownradio.com (The Sound From Germantown).
Your host Dave Walk will be talking to comedians, playing not-funny songs and other great stuff, so make sure to set your internet dial to Gtownradio.com. Who's on the [...]
Tomorrow the Philly Improv Theater will be presenting a new comedy show in which four panelists discuss the day's issues from a comedian's perspective. It's called The Bully Pulpit and it will be hosted by creator and stand-up comic Luke Giordano. Recently, Luke joined Dave for C vs. [...] 
Come on out!
Details:
The Comic Vs. Audience Comedy Show!
Monday, July 6th, 2009
8PM
at the Shubin Theatre
407 Bainbridge St.
ONLY FIVE AMERICAN DOLLARS (tickets on-sale soon with no creepy service fees!)
Featuring stand-up comedy by:
Carolyn Busa
Chris Cotton
Stu Kamens
Luke Cunningham (from NYC)
And host Dave Walk will have some jokes too.
And did we mention it's' [...]
If the news of Philly's The Sixth Borough winning two awards at Chicago's Snubfest wasn't enough, we are happy to report today that Philly stand-up Kent Haines has been tapped to perform on the next season of Comedy Central's Live At Gotham.Live At Gotham is the premiere' [...]
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Photo taken by C vs. A at The Sixth Borough's "Depression Isn't Just A River In Egypt" at Connie's Ric Rac this past April. We weren't in Chicago."It was fun to do it anyway but to the fact that we won a couple of festival trips made it much" [...]
Our bi-weekly comedy talk show returns tonight from 7-8PM EST with our friends at Gtownradio.com (The Sound From Germantown).
Your host Dave Walk will be talking to comedians, playing not-funny songs and other great stuff, so make sure to set your internet dial to Gtownradio.com.
This week Luke [...]
PART 1
Dawn had her blonde hair teased as only a girl from [...]
Ladies and Gentleman, it's been a while and we missed you! Yes, it's been almost two months since the last COMIC VS. AUDIENCE COMEDY SHOW in Philadelphia and baby it's been too long. So in just a few weeks, Comicvsaudience.com and the Philly Improv Theater will proudly [...]
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Whether it's steroids, cooking the financial books, or test scores, cheating is prevalent in today's America. In Get Rich Cheating, New York comedian Jeff Kreisler tackles this theme in satirical detail that will empower you to be all that you can be by doing what you shouldn't.Kreisler' [...]
Our week of stand-up podcasts continues with this performance by Philly comic Jack Martin at the May Comic Vs. Audience Comedy Show at the Shubin Theatre.
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It's about that time of the year again for the biggest comedy competition in Philadelphia where Helium Comedy Club finds "Philly's Phunniest Person." Over the two weeks of intense competition, 150 comics will take the stage for the grand prize of $1,000. Last year, C vs. A was there [...] Our bi-weekly comedy talk show returns tonight from 7-8PM EST with our friends at Gtownradio.com (The Sound From Germantown).
Your host Dave Walk will be talking to comedians, playing not-funny songs and other great stuff, so make sure to set your internet dial to Gtownradio.com.
This week on [...]
Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins canceled? NOOOOOO!!!
In the Philadelphia comedy scene, some people perform because it's fun and others want to be famous. But there is only one comedian that specifically talks about his attempts at fame on stage. That would be 2008's Philly's Phunniest winner and Birmingham, Alabama native Kent Haines. Tonight his' [...] 
Christian Finnegan is a New York City stand-up comedian that has been on The Dave Chappelle Show, Best Week Ever, and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. His new stand-up special, Au Contraire!, which was filmed in Philadelphia the The Trocadero, is out now on CD and DVD. Before and [...]
Oh and you thought we were done giving away tickets. Nope! It's like we're Oprah over here! This Thursday, native Philadelphian and stand-up comedian TuRae will be taking the stage at The Trocadero to film his new one-hour comedy special "No Limitations". Since starting comedy as a [...]
It figures that it would take a long time to write surreal and strange jokes like Steven Wright does. In 1985, Wright released his first stand-up album I Have A Pony and it would take him 22 years to release his second, 2007's I Still Have A Pony. And' [...]
Our bi-weekly comedy talk show returns tonight from 7-8PM EST with our friends at Gtownradio.com (The Sound From Germantown).Your host Dave Walk will be talking to comedians, playing not-funny songs and other great stuff, so make sure to set your internet dial to Gtownradio.com. Now, since we'll' [...]
It's time once again for THE MINISTRY OF SECRET JOKES, comic Doogie Horner's monthly game show/comedy show at Fergie's Pub (1214 Sansom) starting at 8PM.
This month, expect stand-up comedy from Ryan Carey, Dave Walk, David James, and Joey Dougherty, an Omniana battle between champion Brendan Kennedy and Luke' [...]
Ladies and gentleman of New York (and we know you're out there), this Thursday there will be a very special Comic Vs. Audience Comedy Show in your dear city! Featuring three of the very funniest stand-up comedians from Philadelphia, the show will be kicking off a weekend of 
Wes & Eugene's Cabinet of Wonders - Thurs. May 21, 2009 - World Cafe Life
New York comic Eugene Mirman seems to be on tour constantly. Just in the past few years he's performed live with The Flight of the Conchords (stopping off at the Tower Theatre), with [...]
Tonight (and only tonight), New York comic Christian Finnegan visits Helium as part of his "Au Contraire" tour. Earlier this month his new CD and DVD stand-up special of the same name was released and there's a Philadelphia connection. It was shot over two shows last' [...] 
Whenever a book comes out that I'm interested in I have to wait for it to come out on tape. You don't really expect me to take all that time to read it, do you? I mean, come on.Comedy by the Numbers, written by Eric Hoffman, a writer for [...]
There was no C vs. A Radio Hour this week, but we had to share this clip that would've aired if there was a show. Stand-up comic and funny guy BRENDAN KENNEDY joined host Dave Walk in the studio to share some "Wacky News" that's been [...]
It's time again for the Philly Improv Theater's week at the Shubin Theatre (407 Bainbridge St). The week actually kicked off Monday with our show (programming note: there will be no C vs. A show in June), but the highlights of the week are still yet to [...] 
Ladies and Gentleman, it's that time again! THE COMIC VS. AUDIENCE COMEDY SHOW is coming to a town near you, specifically Philadelphia! ComicVsAudience.com and the Philly Improv Theater present a night of engaging and hilarious stand-up comedy with FIVE comedians this time.Details:
The Comic Vs. Audience Comedy Show!
Monday, May' [...]
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It's time again for the Philly sketch team up that is WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME. While 