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Tom Segura

10 Comedians to Go Watch: Tom Segura

by Brendon Mulvihill on September 9, 2008 in Stand-Up

In my opinion (sometimes it’s humble…sometimes it’s not), Tom Segura understands what stand-up comedy is all about. No subject is off limits and there is no “line”…so to speak. That’s stand-up comedy. It’s the one place you are allowed to say anything you want and the audience is allowed to laugh. Very few comedians take [...]

10 Comedians to Go Watch: No Not Variety’s List…

by Brendon Mulvihill on August 15, 2008 in Stand-Up

Variety Magazine came out with a list of “Top 10 Comics to Watch”. No disrespect to Variety or the 10 comedians they chose, but I have a different definition of “watch”. Their definition is “to keep an eye on in the media and movies”. My definition is “to go see in a club and laugh [...]

One Hour. 12 Comics. Only made it through 4.

by Brendon Mulvihill on June 21, 2008 in Stand-Up

Last night, I went to Dan Bialek’s new show “Twelve Shiny Nickels” at The Gardner Theaters. It’s a new concept show where 12 comedians do their best 5 minutes of material so that the audience is in and out in one hour. Sounded interesting given that I think stand-up comedy line-ups should have no more [...]

Franjola, Pazsitzky, Segura, Colona – Enough Said

by Brendon Mulvihill on June 18, 2008 in Stand-Up

A packed house at Ballgame’s Laugh Lounge last night saw one of the best line-ups in the show’s history. Chris Franjola, Christina Pazsitzky, Tom Segura, and Sarah Colona are 4 of the best stand-up comedians in the city and probably the country – and we got to see all of them in one show. It’s [...]

I asked a few of my favorite L.A.-based comedians a simple question – if you have the night off and feel like going to laugh, who are you going to see? One stipulation…it must be another L.A.-based comedian so that our readers can go see them. Here are the answers I got: Greg Fitzsimmons – [...]