Ladybits on TheGloss: Kara Buller

Ladybits on TheGloss: Kara Buller

More of our new feature on TheGloss! Here's the link!

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Ladybits in the News!

Ladybits in the News!

Ladybits has a new weekly feature on TheGloss: Lady Comedians Tell It Like It Is: Joselyn Hughes Lady Comedians Tell It Like It Is: Abbi Crutchfield Lady comics -- to be considered for this feature, send us a bunch of one-liners/Tweets to pick from, and a short bio, link, and photo. Al

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Featured this Wednesday: Jen Kwok

Featured this Wednesday: Jen Kwok

See Jen this Wednesday, October 13th at Ladybits: Jen Kwok is a delightful ukulele comedian who loves to entertain you! Armed with a velvety voice and razor-sharp wit, Jen reached national attention as a finalist in NBC's Stand-Up for Diversity and made her film debut in this summer's "Eat, Pray,

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Featured this Wednesday: Giulia Rozzi

Featured this Wednesday: Giulia Rozzi

See Giulia this Wednesday, October 13th at Ladybits: Giulia Rozzi is a NYC based comedian, actress and writer whose very personal, blunt, and animated comedy has earned her the honor of being a Boston Comedy Festival finalist, one of The Frisky's "Top 15 Comediennes You Should Be Laughing At" and

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Featured this Wednesday: Leah Dubie

Featured this Wednesday: Leah Dubie

See Leah this Wednesday, October 13th at Ladybits: Leah Dubie's jokes have been featured in Time Out NY and alongside naked ladies in Playboy Magazine. Her musings have been heard on FREE FM, Sirius OutQ, The Joey Reynolds Show and broadcast on a broadband channel in the back of NYC cabs. She

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Featured this Wednesday: Amanda Baramki

Featured this Wednesday: Amanda Baramki

See Amanda this Wednesday, October 13th at Ladybits: Amanda Baramki's dry wit and off kilter perspective led David Manning of The Ridgefield Press to call Baramki, "laugh out loud hilarious!" Baramki generally delights her audiences with musings ranging from irreverent topics like flag burning

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Heckling is Not an Inseparable Part of Comedy

Heckling is Not an Inseparable Part of Comedy

You know how, sometimes, an audience at a sporting event throws a bunch of crap on the field because they either really like or really don't like a player?  Yeah, you shouldn't do that.  It really messes up the game. And while some comics do manage to thrill with their witty rejoinders to heckl

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Is Dubious Grammar Funny?

Is Dubious Grammar Funny?

In a previous post here on Ladybits, I wrote about how, sometimes, phrasing something in its funniest form requires messing up the grammar, or at least bending to colloquialisms. Allie Brosh's latest humor article on TheGloss contained the sentence, "If you cross paths with a subordinate human, y

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Announcing Our Partner Paradigm Shift (Tonight: 3 Short Films About Body Image)

Announcing Our Partner Paradigm Shift (Tonight: 3 Short Films About Body Image)

Paradigm Shift is NYC's Feminist Community. They host monthly lectures, discussions, screenings, and performances featuring leaders in feminist thought, ranging from artists and academics to filmmakers and policy activists. Join us tonight at BODY TYPED, a series of short films that use humor

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Feminism in Wonder Woman

Feminism in Wonder Woman

Original link: A psychologist named William Marston created Wonder Woman. He wanted her to be a strong role model for young girls. He thought the male comic-book heroes of the day were mostly violent, so he wanted to create a different kind of hero who would teach girls to stand up for themselves

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Photos from the Ladybits Comedy Kickoff

Photos from the Ladybits Comedy Kickoff

Sweet! Thanks to the 50+ people who came out Ladybits' opening night, and thanks to TheGloss, and to Sean McCarthy for this post on The Comic's Comic. Photos by Eric Walton.

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Buzz for Tonight's Show!

Buzz for Tonight’s Show!

The Kickoff Show is tonight! We're happy to get a little buzz going (not that kind ... we try not to drink before 1:15pm). We're featured on TheApiary's The Honey Shot. Thanks, Apiary! And we're delighted to be featured on TheGloss: Yes, Women Are Funny: Introducing Ladybits Comedy. T

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People Who Hate Feminism:

People Who Hate Feminism: “This 50/50 thing will get a lot worse.”

Enjoy some unintentional hilarity! People who hate feminism, blame us for preventing our men from "discipling" us, and blame their trouble meeting women on "this 50/50 thing." Sounds tough!           "Some crazy chick with like a pink buzz cut and Army fatigues .

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Allie Brosh on TheGloss: Zombie Beauty and Defensive Sequins

Allie Brosh on TheGloss: Zombie Beauty and Defensive Sequins

I'd like to introduce TheGloss's resident humor writer, Allie Brosh, who wrote today about 4 Totally Legitimate Uses For Sequins. Over the last three weeks, Allie presented ZOMBeauty, a Makeover Show for Zombies ("Last week we helped Chloe learn how to use body glitter and Axe spray to distra

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How to Finally Write That Hilarious Freaking Book

How to Finally Write That Hilarious Freaking Book

Two different views on how to finally get your hilarious book done and then get a big TV show like Chelsea Handler (or something): From CoffeeandShowbiz, Write a Book, While I Make a Healthy Frittata. Incidentally, "frittata" is a really good spelling bee word. The t's are all fucked up. Tha

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