"I don't curse. And it's good for a date! Unless you feel like the relationship is on the rocks and you feel like the show might bring up too many questions about where the relationship is going," said comedian Mike Birbiglia in a recent interview with the New Times regarding his new one-man show, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend.

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- Comedian Mike Birbiglia at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts: A Reformed Sleepwalker on Love and Marriage.
- Margaret Cho on the Weirdest Place to Get Tattooed.

On Friday night, Birbiglia packed the Coral Springs Center for the Arts with folks ready to embrace the charmingly self-deprecating comedian's tales of love and marriage. This comes as no surprise as the success of his very personal movie, Sleepwalk With Me, left many wanting to know what happened next for the comedian. Birbiglia has mastered the art of stringing together stories from the past and present, placing the audience in a time machine through his life.

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If you were lucky enough to be called a pig-fucker by Ralphie May, that means you were at his first big show, opening for his idol, Sam Kinison.

If not, you've probably seen Ralphie on everything from Last Comic Standing to the Big Black Comedy Show to any one of his standup shows on Comedy Central. He's going to be performing at the Palm Beach Improv for the next two weeks with his wife, Lahna Turner (not that Lana Turner), opening for him. We talked to him about touring with his honey, leaving Afghanistan, and learning Spanish. 

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Tom Cotter isn't the most famous comedian of 2012, but he did end up being watched by most of this fine nation's couch potatoes last year via America's Got Talent.  Cotter made it all the way to the finals with the confidence to take home the gold, only to lose to a group of dogs doing tricks.  
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It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between legitimate news stories - those that have actually expired in the real world - and the outlandishly hilarious bullshit people come up with in the name of LOL.


For example, doesn't a poll detailing how the U.S. congress is less popular than root canals, Donald Trump, and evenNickelback, sound like the kind of stuff they would cook up over at satirical news digest and teleivision network, The Onion?

Well, it's not.
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In part one of our interview with comedian and musician Margaret Cho, we probed her about the Grammy award winning album Cho Dependent and she told us about her knee tattoos of presidents Lincoln and Washington.

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- Margaret Cho On the Weirdest Place to Get a Tattoo (Interview, Part One)

In this second part, she talks about being seen as a mother figure, her own mom, her favorite television mama, and her newest stand up show, apt titled, Mother.
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Margaret Cho is one comedian who will never lose her audience. Not only because gays and Koreans won't be going extinct anytime soon, but because she is, herself, an evolving artist.More »

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Jim Gaffigan has mastered the art of the food joke. Jokes about food, you say?! We want to belly laugh about deep shit. Dark shit. The stuff of nightmares. Stuff we'll still be crying to our shrinks about in ten years. The kind of jokes we can never, ever get over. Never. We want deep sad laughter. Well, if that alone is your cup of tea, then good thing you weren't at Jim Gaffigan's show last night at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. The comedian remains direct, funny, and easy to laugh at with no politics, no secrets, and nothing dark.

You may know him by his Hot Pockets bit, one that, honestly made me weep with laughter when I first heard it. I thought, why does my face hurt? Why can't I breathe? it's cause Gaffigan is hilarious. He takes the mundane and pulls it apart in a way that is wholly relatable, especially to someone obsessed with eating and talking about eating and thinking about eating. Last night, he spent about five minutes riffing on McDonald's fries. It's the stuff of genius. Great big fat genius.



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