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Lavell Crawford speaks to Sacramento Comedy.Com

by Steven BloomJanuary 31, 2010

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A Sacramento Comedy.Com Video Interview

Lavell Crawford is one of the biggest comics standing. No, really. He’s big!
SacramentoComedy.Com got a chance to talk to Crawford both by phone and in person as he was preparing to headline at the Punchline, a premier Sacramento comedy club. This is one of the funniest interviews we have done!

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Sacramento Comedy Spot in Midtown

by Steven BloomDecember 20, 2009

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Oh, you are going to love this!

One of my favorite comedy houses has gone up town! (er.. mid-town) more accurately!

The Comedy Spot flavor is more like what one would experience at alternative comedy theaters in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, such as Upright Citizens Brigade.

So, Sacramento, if you haven’t experienced the eclectic mix of comedy, improv, music and long form sketch comedy, you MUST attend these shows!

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Christopher Titus Speaks To Sacramento Comedy.Com

by Steven BloomDecember 15, 2009

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A Sacramento Comedy.Com Video Interview

After 2 hours on stage at Tommy T’s, Christopher Titus, speaks his mind to SacramentoComedy.Com as he discusses his start in the business, speaking the truth, his idols and his adventures in comedy!

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Bill Burr Speaks to Sacramento Comedy.Com

by Steven BloomDecember 15, 2009

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A Sacramento Comedy.Com Video Interview

Join us as national touring comedic phenom, Bill Burr discusses the taping of his new one hour Comedy Central special, his almost disaster during his taping as the first comedian to appear on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and much more.

Enjoy!

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Melissa Peterman – A Stand Up Woman

by Steven BloomDecember 8, 2009

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A Sacramento Comedy.Com Video Interview

We met up with Melissa, who had just flown in from LA, at her hotel just prior to her achieving a milestone in her career. Melissa, a movie actress and co-star of the “Reba” television show for over 6 years and host of the CMT Network’s hit “Singing Bee,” was about to go on stage as a headliner for the first time. Though she was suffering from a cold, we found that her being medicated was much more fun!

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The Truth of Titus

by Marcella ArguelloDecember 8, 2009

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A Sacramento Comedy.Com Interview

Early 20th century Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung once said “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” But what does this have to do with comedian Christopher Titus? Well, therapy is an effort to expose the truth on an individual basis just as a comedian exposes the truths of the world. And what is more honest than making fun of your own mothers mental illness?

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Bill Burr is In The Zone

by Steven BloomDecember 7, 2009

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A Sacramento Comedy Interview

Sacramento Comedy.Com had the opportunity to speak with comedian Bill Burr in advance of his Sacramento visit this weekend.

Burr, who on June 8 was honored to be the first comedian to perform on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien,” will also be seen in the upcoming Steve Carell & Tina Fey film, “Date Night.”

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Marc Yaffee – Native American Comic

by Steven BloomDecember 1, 2009

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A Sacramento Comedy.Com Video Interview

We met up with Native American comic, Marc Yaffee a few weeks ago as he was headlining at the local Tommy T’s. He spoke of his beginnings here in Sacramento with his daughter and his new Showtime special, “Goin’Native: The American Indian Comedy Slam” debuting Dec 31 @ 10:05pm

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Appearing This Week

Mary Van Note at Luna’s Cafe

by Steven BloomFebruary 8, 2010

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Headlines February 10th One Night Only!
Mary Van Note is a stand-up comedian of the weird variety. She has gained a popular following both onstage and online. She performs at colleges, clubs and festivals across the country and she is the creator and star of the Independent Film Channel web series The Mary Van Note Show: [...]

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Debi Gutierrez At Laughs Unlimited

by Steven BloomFebruary 5, 2010

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Headlines February 11 – 13
This is a SacramentoComedy Meetup Event!

Debi Gutierrez is not your run-of-the-mill entertainer or television personality. EbayShe is as unique in her delivery and performances as she is in her personal life. What’s more, Debi refuses to be lumped in with girl comedy and ethnic humor. Instead, she speaks of the common threads that describe us all with a relate-able, sharp wit, energy and realism that makes it okay to be a human again.

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Gina Yashere at Punchline

by Steven BloomJanuary 25, 2010

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Headlines February 11 – 13

Gina Yashere broke onto the American comedy scene with her appearances on Last Comic Standing (NBC) where she made it to the final 10. Gina’s unique take on being both a cultural insider and outsider has wowed audiences not just in the UK, but also in America, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Canada, and all over Europe.

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Gary Conrad at Tommy Ts

by Steven BloomJanuary 1, 2010

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Headlines February 12 – 14

Gary Conrad has quickly become one of the hottest and most skillfull hypnotists working in this country. He began his odyssey into hypnosis in 1980 in order to better condition himself during training for bodybuilding competitions. He learned that through control of the mind, he could maximize his workout abilities. This ignited his passion for hypnotism that holds to this day.

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I’m Just Saying…

The Original Apple iPad!

by Steven BloomJanuary 27, 2010

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The funniest thing about today’s iPad announcement from Apple is that this is not the first time that they released it.

Enjoy MadTv’s iPad commercial. I think you will enjoy it!

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Sacramento Comedy’s Favorite Tweeters

by Brad PeteringJanuary 25, 2010

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Twitter gets criticized for being little more than a venue for celebrities to publicize even the most fleeting, inane ephemera of their lives. Admittedly, this criticism is frequently apt. Before she mysteriously deleted her account (!), pop sensation Miley Cyrus was among the world’s reigning micro-bloggers with well over 2 millions people following [...]

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Things that I Hate…

by Steven BloomJanuary 3, 2010

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Because I have watched hundreds of comics over the years, I am often asked who my favorite comedians are and why I like them. That is a very hard question to answer. There is an old saying that goes, “I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like.” The same holds true [...]

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Grace White in “Hippie Heaven”

by Steven BloomDecember 7, 2009

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Now Appearing in Comedy Heaven

For those of you who knew Grace White, Northern California based comedian, producer, friend and self-named “Old Hippie Chick” were saddened to hear on December 3, 2009 that Grace had lost her 2 year battle with lung cancer.

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Goodbye Chelsea, Hello Melissa!

by Steven BloomDecember 1, 2009

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This is an open message to my now ex, Chelsea Handler.
Chelsea, you have ignored me, flaunted Chuy in my face and then stripped naked for the world against my wishes. Girl, I have to tell you… I have found another!
Melissa Peterman and I are now officially an item. She likes to “get up on that” [...]

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News & Reviews

My Parachute Is A Bowling Ball

by Steven BloomJanuary 30, 2010

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Whenever I hear descriptive terms like “good clean fun” or “fun for the entire family”, and the word “Disneyland” isn’t included in the sentence, in my mind I think “boring!” Put the words “comedy” and “competition” in the same sentence and I just think of a “Yo Mamma so fat…” argument on the asphalt. But [...]

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Don’t Forget, Bill Hicks Hated Leno Before it was Cool

by Brad PeteringJanuary 25, 2010

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Jay Leno seems to have accumulated the collective hatred of the comedy world with his inexplicable late-night antics, but no one is likely to ever top the late Bill Hicks when it comes to sheer passionate hatred for the “chinned-one”. This routine, taken from his classic album Rant in E-Minor, is about 17 years old [...]

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A Troubled Artie Lange

by Brad PeteringJanuary 4, 2010

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Despite his alleged sobriety and encouraging weight loss, notoriously troubled comedian and occasional best-selling author Artie Lange appears to remain troubled. TMZ reported that Lange, best known as Howard Stern’s longtime co-host, was hospitalized for undisclosed reasons less than a month before his first Comedy Central special, “Jack and Coke”, is scheduled to premiere.

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Goin’ Native: The American Indian Comedy Slam

by Steven BloomDecember 29, 2009

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Pow? No, Pow Wow!

Showtime Presents: This history-making original concert that showcases the funniest Native American comedians performing today, gathered together on one stage. Featured alongside host Charlie Hill are Larry Omaha, Howie Miller and four up-and-comers making their mark on the standup scene: Marc Yaffee, Jim Rule, Vaughn Eagle Bear and JR Redwater.

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A Marxist, a Leninist and a Bolshevik Walk Into A Bar

by Svitlana KuryloDecember 22, 2009

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What do you get when you cross three young, hip, Armenians living in Moscow, grumpy communists and a new generation of Russians ready to get down in the gutter with the rest of us capitalist pigs?

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