by Ed Berliner | Jul 4, 2024 | Current Events
Comedy that Wouldn’t Play Well in 2024: “The Inquisition” LET US BEGIN WITH “THE WARNING”. This is a series designed to make us all think, about times past, times present, and times still to come. We are all adults here, (or at least one...
by Ed Berliner | Apr 29, 2024 | Current Events, Event Planning
JOKES: Top 5 “Best” & Top 5 “Best Left to the Professionals” One of the excellent things about working with professional comedians is experiencing the wide range of jokes and humor they bring to every production on “Toast Boast Roast...
by Ed Berliner | Apr 10, 2024 | Current Events
Stop being offended, start laughing, and do “The Vatican Rag”. Fair to say that we have forgotten how to laugh. Be it the corporate world or our personal lives, it has become difficult and, in some cases, impossible for us to laugh at ourselves, laugh...
by Ed Berliner | Apr 4, 2024 | Current Events
Artificial Intelligence: Stealing more than just a few jokes. Artificial Intelligence is coming for comedy. There will be no stopping it. Somewhere, there will always be someone seeking to copy and profit from another persons work. It’s been happening for generations...
by Ed Berliner | Feb 16, 2024 | Current Events
DID COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR CROSS THE LINE WITH HOMOPHOBIC JOKES, AND WHO SETS THAT LINE? When working with and interviewing comedians during my broadcast news career, the very first thing I learned was “Don’t EVER try to upstage the comic. THEY are the professionals...
by lindy | Jan 31, 2024 | Current Events
DAVE CHAPPELLE AND THE LESSONS OF AUDIENCE ACCOUNTABILITY Dave Chappelle is one of the legendary voices in American comedy, on that there is not a single doubt. The man has worked his way up from the bottom, taken the slings and arrow about his material and act, at...
by Ed Berliner | Jan 25, 2024 | Current Events
NATASHA LEGGERO: ALL’S FAIR IN FUN & FLASHING Natasha Leggero: All’s Fair in Fun and Flashing.
Hey, if the overweight guy can take the stage without a stitch of upper clothing on and tell jokes, why not make it fair for everyone?
Natasha Leggero had...
by Ed Berliner | Jan 23, 2024 | Current Events, Event Planning
KNOCK-KNOCK: 5 WAYS COMEDY SAVED THE CORPORATE EVENT “So, how about we just make fun of everyone and everything and give them something to laugh and talk about at the same time?”
Little did I know the reaction that line would garner from the gathered meeting room of...
by Ed Berliner | Jan 22, 2024 | Current Events
Katt Williams is like so many comics working stages around the world in that you either like his comedy, or you don’t. Often, it’s just that simple. But where he stands out is those times when he speaks his mind about the state of comedy, his fellow performers, and...
by Toast Boast Roast | Jan 17, 2024 | Weddings
THE FUNNIEST WEDDING RECEPTION OF ALL-TIME While it often features a good friend, someone in the family, maybe even a co-worker, one of the toughest and often ear-cringing part of a wedding reception is “The Toast”. Often you ask someone to do it, they don’t like...
