Chip and Monica of Good Morning Apocalypse, the perky morning show trucking along following the end of the world, try to stay upbeat. But it’s pretty hard when your camera is a Tide bottle and a Capri Sun box, and one of your co-hosts is dead. See also: At the…

Darnell, a recently adopted 9-year-old street kid, can’t believe his dad never figured out his real name. It’s engraved right into his silver grill: D-A-R-N-E-L-L. Thinking he had no name, his dad’s been calling him Peter since adopting him and bringing him back to God’s country (Southlake). Get it together,…

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Shawn & Marlon Wayans at the Addison Improv These two brothers of In Living Color and White Chicks fame are in Addison Thursday through Saturday. Come see ’em bust out some tandem comedy…

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Gabriel Iglesias at the Addison Improv The fluffy funny-man himself will be here this weekend at the Addison Improv. Iglesias (and that’s Iglesias with an I, no matter what the hotel clerk says)…

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. If you can still walk after stuffing your face full of turkey, mashed potatoes and whatever passes for cranberry dressing in your house, head on over to these shows to laugh off some…

Did you know that the Mall of America in Minnesota is where the government Operation-Dumbo-Drops all of the obese people you’ve lost contact with? Jim Norton does. They’re totally fine, he said. No need to worry. I checked out Norton’s show at the Addison Improv over the weekend, and it…

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Jim Norton at the Addison Improv Heard every weekday morning on the Opie & Anthony radio show and seen everywhere from bookshelves to Louie, Jim Norton is an angry force to be reckoned…

With his comedy special Please Be Offended out on Netflix, Jim Norton has taken to the road again with all new material. He called in from New York before leaving for his weekend of shows at the Addison Improv, and he actually sounded rested. He’d had a nap, apparently. See…

“I’m calling her.” It was Saturday night at Hyena’s in Fort Worth, and Sean Kent, the comic, had commandeered the cell phone of a middle-aged woman who made the mistake of answering her daughter’s call during his show. After a string of text messages detailing Kat’s conception (one incarnation involved…

“I grew up in Austin, so Dallas was always the great, big, scary city,” Sean Kent says over the phone. I called him up to talk about his return to the big southern state, where he’ll do five nights of shows this weekend. “I love Hyena’s,” he says. “There’s just…

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Sean Kent at Hyena’s in Fort Worth “I write a fuckload ’cause otherwise I get bored,” says Sean Kent. “I don’t wanna say the same stuff every year.” You hear that, guys? A…

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Richard Lewis at the Addison Improv When Richard Lewis gets on stage, you really have no idea what you’re in for. He prepares nothing, writes nothing down. And it can be great. But…

“I’m in a really, really cool, weird zone.” Well no shit, Richard Lewis. I’m on the phone, talking, but mostly listening, to the veteran comedian, long-time stand-up and favorite on Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. I can feel the self-loathing through the speaker, and if I’m not laughing, I’m nodding…

Editor’s note: We sent Jane the Intern to experience the Dallas Comedy House’s Level 1 Improv class. Here’s her report. The sweaty-faced young man to my left turns to me and yells, “Tell me seven things you love about driving!” “Aaaaaaah!” screams the entire group, scooping their voices and arms…

Every Wednesday night at the Graff Chevrolet Ultra Lounge in Grand Prairie, Vince Vance and his crew host a Komic Kontest, searching for the funniest of the funny in Texas. Comedians get on stage and compete to win $50 and the opening spot for the next week’s show. The Lounge,…

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. DeRay Davis at Addison Improv Warning: DeRay Davis is not the for easily offended. A Comedy Central favorite, DeRay grew up so poor, his Freddy Krueger Halloween costume was three spoons taped to…

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Louis CK at the Majestic Theatre When you hear “red hair,” “pasty gut” and “so funny I almost hyper-ventilated” in the same sentence, there’s only one name that comes to mind: Louis mother-fucking…

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar.Dustin Ybarra at Hyena’s in Fort Worth Will he be high? I hope he’ll be high. He’ll be high. A 2009 finalist for Funniest Dallas Comic, Dustin Ybarra has performed at the NBC Diversity Comedy…

Steven Jay Crabtree performs his one-man comedy act Dysfunctional Divas the first weekend of every month at Pocket Sandwich Theatre. I went to check out the show after meeting the ladies a few days ago. It was quite divalicious. See also: The Six Faces of Steven Jay Crabtree: A Chat with…

We’re in the middle of an aisle in Half Price Books on Northwest Highway, and Steve Jay Crabtree, the comic whose multiple personalities grace the Pocket Sandwich Theater this weekend, is cycling in and out of his Dysfunctional Divas like a patient with multiple personalities. Customers stop and browse book shelves…