I remember sitting in my office in 2010 and reading Doug Stanhope's evisceration of stand-up comedy classes. I remember it very clearly, in fact, because at the time I was deep into strategizing how a "traditional" comedy club could become the next Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater. UCB was...

Thanksgiving Thursday was the official start of Black Friday this year as retailers across the country opened for 24 hours and even extended sales into Small Business Saturday. As the dawn broke on Cyber Monday, a panic begins as our attention suddenly turns to the split day of Giving Tuesday/Mobile...

There's been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over Facebook's recent shift to "Promoted Posts" and professionals seem to be split as to what it means for the future of the platform.

One one side we have people like Dangerous Minds, who called the changes " THE...

Internet, world, take a knee. We need to have a real talk. This is one of those moments where we all have a breakthrough. Where we look at obstacles ahead and change the tide. This is that moment in Braveheart where Mel Gibson says that non antisemitic stuff and people...

It's not only Friday, it's Facebook IPO Friday!

What better way to celebrate the end of the week/canonization of Mark Zuckerberg by Wall Street than with a little music from well-meaning people who want to thank Facebook?!

On the Thank You Facebook Song Facebook page, writer

If there is a cathedral for the relatively young art of stand-up, if there is a La Scala for comedy or a Louvre of Comedy history, the black, bunker-like building on The Sunset Strip with the chasing lights and the classic marquee is it.

The Comedy Store,...

At the SXSW Interactive Festival this year, I moderated a panel goofily titled "Political Humor 2.0: Teh Internetz is Leaking." The panel was populated by lovely, funny brilliant people with political points of view: Carol Hartsell of Huffington Post Comedy, Rory Albanese of The Daily Show, and Sara Benincasa of...