Yesterday, I told you about the Egyptian comedian who faces 3 months in jail for a movie he did. Today, we spiraled deeper into comedy hell as the legendary Billy Connolly got heckled off stage twice in one week. It’s bad enough when hardline theocratic foreign regimes clamp down on comedy, but when customers start interfering with shows they paid large amounts of money to see, it is truly a sign of how bad things have become.

Maybe it’s just that people don’t know how to act at a comedy show. It seems simple enough: sit, laugh, leave. But since we live in an era where people can’t go anywhere without hand-holding and explicit instructions, I’ve created

It’s a bad day for my business. In Egypt, one of the country’s biggest comedians, Adel Imam, has been sentenced to three months in jail for defaming Islam. I’ll go further and say it’s a bad day for mankind.

What are comedians, but today’s modern version of the court jester? An age-old tradition, the jester was allowed by monarchs to crack wise about news, affairs of the kingdom and even the king himself, and do so mostly without punishment. The jester was a mirror held up to society and, more importantly, the aristocracy, using wit, humor and satire to expose those groups’ flaws and foibles. Jesters were arguably

On my way from last night’s awesome show in Morgan Hill (thanks, everybody up in the MH!) I was off to Monterey for this weekend’s shows at Planet Gemini. It’s only an hour-long drive, what could go wrong? Everything, if you are illiterate.

I made the mistake of