Music and stand-up comedy have gone together since the days of vaudeville, with legends like Jack Benny and Henny Youngman punctuating their one-liners with bursts of violin, or Victor Borge segueing ...

Comedian JR De Guzman discovered stand-up comedy while he was a student at UC Davis and now tours the world with his guitar, stopping at the San Jose Improv for three nights. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC ...

Plenty of funny songs have been released in country music, including these three, which all came out in the 1990s.

Professional funny people Tim Heidecker, Frak The Person, and Whitmer Thomas on the fine line between musical comedy and music by comedians Tim Heidecker had been releasing music for years before he ...

Ben Parker and David Berkeley are the musicians behind the podcast "Madmen Cross the Water." (Courtesy Sjoske Buursink) Here’s one for the dreamers out there. “Madmen Cross the Water,” a new but ...

Who is Tim Heidecker, really? Even for fans of his comedy, sometimes it’s hard to know. As a master of his own entertainment universe for the last 20-plus years, the multi-hyphenate who made a splash ...

Darryl Rhoades has been a fixture of the Atlanta music and comedy scene since the 1970s. Born in 1950, Rhoades grew up in Forest Park. He came of age during Atlanta’s hippie movement that was centered ...

Singer-songwriters Marc Cohn and Shawn Colvin perform Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Lansdowne Theater in Delaware County. Cohn is a Grammy Award winner for “Walking in Memphis” and has gone on to continue ...

A new year also means a new start to the concert and comedy tour calendar, as many performers who took time off for the holidays head back on the road, and our greater Tampa Bay area already looks to ...

A few groundbreaking country songs from 1965 made the genre even better for years to come. I think these three should be celebrated.

Comedy and music have long served as powerful mediums for addressing societal issues. Throughout history, these art forms have been used to critique and expose the flaws in political systems. Greek ...