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Northern exposure

Four Boston funnymen tell some jokes at Montreal's Just for Laughs festival, and prove that comedy is more than just getting-r-done
While New York is grittier, Los Angeles juicier, and Boston is wicked smahter, for some odd reason it is Montreal that, for two weeks every summer, becomes the epicenter of the comedy universe.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  July 29, 2009
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Interview: Kristen Schaal

Keeping her superfandom in check
Writing a book about romance with her boyfriend, Schaal says, "is kind of killing our romance a little bit, because you stay up late to write the book, and then you're too tired to get it on."
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  June 24, 2009
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Interview: Kristen Schaal

Keeping her superfandom in check
Writing a book about romance with her boyfriend, Schaal says, "is kind of killing our romance a little bit, because you stay up late to write the book, and then you're too tired to get it on."
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  June 24, 2009
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AltCom! Preview

The 2nd Annual AltCom! Comedy Festival hits Somerville
The 2nd annual AltCom! Alternative Comedy Festival has officially kicked off.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  May 08, 2009
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Interview: Eugene Mirman

Slow learner
Much like the stand-up that has made him an alt-comedy mainstay, Eugene Mirman's first book, The Will to Whatevs (Harper Perennial), is a freewheeling mix of bemused ironies and trenchantly silly non-sequiturs.
By ROB TURBOVSKY  |  February 17, 2009
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Robby Roadsteamer's good intentions

The Greater Boston Alternative-Comedy Festival
"He's beyond passionate — it's almost to the brink of sanity with him."
By MIKE MILIARD  |  December 12, 2008
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Luminous sadness

Alina Simone sings Yanka Dyagileva
“Part of my goal is to just fucking force Americans to listen to Russian rock.”
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  August 05, 2008
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Funny business

As the AltCom Festival arrives at the Somerville Theatre, we look at the roots of the indie comedy boom.
“Ashlee Simpson’s new album sold so poorly,” snorted the headline on Yahoo! this past week, that “it was beaten by a comedy album.”
By MIKE MILIARD  |  May 08, 2008
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Dance, Monkey: Eugene Mirman

W e put a   visiting comic on the hot seat. T his week’s victim . . .
It would make her very popular with both blue-collar voters and the wealthy, latte-sipping bisexuals who like Obama.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  April 28, 2008
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Road show

Eugene Mirman takes ‘Maya’ to the MFA
Be warned, Hollywood: Eugene Mirman ain’t takin’ yo’ shit.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  February 20, 2008
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The cuteness surge

Why, in desperate times, we turn to lolcats, twee songs, and mute kittens
Cuteness, of course, is the collective cultural cure-all to our problems.
By SHARON STEEL  |  February 01, 2008
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Going on sale: February 1, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Saul Williams, Panic at the Disco, Rogue Wave, and more.
By GOING ON SALE  |  January 29, 2008
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Two guys walk into a bar . . .

The debut of the Union Square Round Table
From the outside, P.A.’s Lounge looks like a place a man in a joke about a bar might think twice about bringing his talking dog into.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  November 13, 2006
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Boy wonder

Demetri Martin’s precocious humor
Demetri Martin has chosen a radical modus operandi for a young contemporary comedian.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 25, 2006

Spring break

The best of what's to come in March, April & May
Spring rules
By WILL SPITZ  |  March 09, 2006
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Comic belief

Eugene Mirman’s DIY stand-up scene
Each week at a combination bar, video store, and comedy club in Lower Manhattan, comedians Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale host "Invite Them Up."
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  January 13, 2006

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