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Top Nine Reasons to See Bill Maher Perform at the 2009 NYCF


9.  Glenn Beck hates everything Maher stands for.  That should be enough.

8.  Finally you can be the “funny one,” re-Tweeting Maher’s wry observations with the speed and dexterity of a twenty-year-old.

7.  Maher is even more convincing live than on television.  Bring your innocuously racist uncle for a re-education.

6.  It sounds very bourgeois to tell people you’re “catching a show at Avery Fisher in Lincoln Center.”  

5.  The Daily Show and The Colbert Report don’t tape on Sunday.  What else are you supposed to debate with your co-workers on Monday?

4.  Maher is number thirty-eight on Comedy Central’s list of the “100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.” Statistically speaking, he’s sixty-two percent better than Gallagher.  Plus, he won’t spray you with watermelon debris.

3.  Since Dennis Miller became a conservative and Al Franken a senator, Maher is part of an endangered breed of political commentator.

2.  …Because you’re a part of the liberal media bias!

1.  Until HBO develops 3-D broadcasting, the best and only way to see Bill Maher in all his dimensional glory is at the 2009 New York Comedy Festival.

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Everyone knows that New York is the comedy capital, but certainly there are other funny cities, too. Here's our Top Nine funniest cities besides New York (if only in name!):


9. Intercourse, Pennsylvania

8. Crappo, Maryland

7. Blue Ball, Pennsylvania

6. Bumpass, Virginia

5. Poop Creek, Oregon

4. Fart, Virginia

3. Beaver Lick, Kentucky

2. Shitbridges Creek, California

1. No Name, Colorado

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9. Patton Oswalt is even more endearing live than as a computer-animated, chef hat-wearing, talking rat.

8. You've always heard that Tracy Morgan is a lunatic on stage, but you've never experienced it for yourself.

7. “Wait, isn't Bill Burr the white guy from the Chappelle Show? And isn't Mike Epps the black guy from The Hangover? I love racial typecasting!”

6. Between Italian comedians Artie Lange and Mike Birbiglia, you'll feel like you're in one, big Olive Garden commercial.

5. For the ladies: Bill Maher does social commentary. For the guys: Chicks dig social commentary.

4. Liking Dane Cook is retro-kitschy-cool right now. Plus the guy has some pretty good new material.

3. You were too embarrassed to buy tickets to Justin Timberlake, but you spend long nights agonizing over missing Andy Samberg do “Dick in a Box” live.

2. You can finally see why all your jerk friends prefer Ricky Gervais' British Office to the American version.

1. The New York Comedy Festival has got the best lineup of performers and venues this side of the Hudson River, the East River, or really any river.

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