The Last Laugh Directed by Ferne Pearlstein Opens March 3 at Lincoln Plaza Hey, heard the one about the mass extermination of Jews conducted by the Nazis in the 1930s and the 1940s? Sorry, no pun...
In years past, just as with film, Fall was the prestige season for television. This perhaps reached its peak in the mid-2000s, when ABC released Lost, featuring a pilot directed by J.J. Abrams, a...
https://www.bkmag.com/2016/09/07/watch-watch-fall-tv-preview/
The calendar might not yet say “June 21,” but for all intents and purposes—i.e., the sudden, glorious onslaught of sun and heat—it is summer in Brooklyn. And what a time this is. Brookl...
https://www.bkmag.com/2016/06/02/73-free-summer-things-in-brooklyn/
Even if you haven’t personally experienced the aura of kindness that beams forth from Gondelman’s presence, you’ve probably read one of his hilarious tweets, or experienced his humor as one...
https://www.bkmag.com/2016/03/21/brooklyn-100-josh-gondelman-writer-comedian/
This weekend marked the release of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, and it couldn’t have arrived sooner. As the episode-formatted, Netflix-distributed prequel to 2001 cult classic We...
https://www.bkmag.com/2015/08/03/stella-the-anarchic-peak-of-the-wet-hot-american-summer-gang/
This year’s Northside Festival brought together makers of all facets: filmmakers, writers, musicians, and creatives that make up the quilt work of a multi-talented borough. It made for a week o...
https://www.bkmag.com/2015/06/23/90-seconds-northside-festival/
High Maintenance, the best show on the Internet, won’t hold that distinction much longer: HBO announced today that it has picked up the weed deliveryman web series for a six-episode run. Insert...
https://www.bkmag.com/2015/04/20/hbo-picks-up-high-maintenance/
On March 30, Comedy Central announced that Trevor Noah would be the next host of The Daily Show, following Jon Stewart’s impending departure. The news was initially met by both excitement (a n...
A couple episodes ago, Abbi Jacobson debuted her spot-on Drew Barrymore impression on Broad City. It was marvelous for many reasons, but one of them was that it was a pretty compressed bit. She d...
https://www.bkmag.com/2015/02/20/broad-city-does-amazing-micro-impressions-on-letterman/
Once a month, Jo Firestone and her father Fred host Brooklyn’s most popular pun-related game show. The event is called Punderdome, and in the three years that Firestone’s been hosting, it’s...
https://www.bkmag.com/2014/12/05/punderdome-host-jo-firestone-is-a-master-of-comedic-chaos/