Having a pregnancy scare at Burning Man is no simple pregnancy scare as you might imagine.
Kate Willett got to live the real thing and you can rest assured that she went on quite the trip to avoid getting pregnant at the playa.
Watch her tell the story on the latest This Is Not Happening.
Al Jackson
Andrew WK
Andy Kindler
Bert Kreischer
Bonnie McFarlane
Brian Regan
Chris DiStefano
Dan St Germain
Doug Stanhope
Gastor Almonte
Greg Behrendt
Greg Fitzsimmons
Big Jay Oakerson
Joe List
Joey Diaz
Julian McCullough
Lavell Crawford
Liza Treyger
Louie Anderson
Marc Maron
Margaret Cho
Maria Bamford
Nick Thune
Pete Johansson
Rory Scovel
Russell Peters
Sal Vulcano
Scruncho
Sean Flannery
Steve Simeone
Ari Shaffir will host, hopefully in a more outlandish 3 piece suit, stories from all of the above and more on May 22nd-25th at This Is Not Happening’s home, Cheetah’s in Los Feliz.
You can (and should) reserve your tickets for the tapings for free right here.
Sean Patton is always a highlight of the whole This Is Not Happening series.
This story on how he took intentionally mispronouncing the name of spice too far is further proof of that claim.
On the latest episode of This Is Not Happening, Solomon Georgio shares the tale of why his mom is among the most badass mothers of all time by how she handled Solomon’s bully.
As it turns out, this kid got the rudest of awakenings.
Get tickets here for $8.
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Sometimes, nostalgia should be kept in the recesses of your psyche and not revisited in actuality.
Annie Lederman learned that lesson the hard way by reconnecting with a childhood crush several years later only to find that her dream hookup did not come anywhere close to how she had hoped.
She recounts the tale in this latest edition of This Is Not Happening.
The great Mike Lawrence recounts his initial encounters with romance and losing his virginity for This Is Not Happening.
Suffice it to say that you probably went through less to get to your “first time”.
This Is Not Happening’s latest story comes from The Daily Show’s Al Madrigal and how he went from never knowing that he would ever be a so-called Latino comic to doing gigs where he followed people doing stand-up in Spanish.
If you’re not aware, Moshe Kasher has quite the childhood as he has detailed in his memoir Kasher in the Rye.
This particular story that he told on a recent episode of This Is Not Happening recounts one of the crazier episodes of that childhood wherein a cop had Moshe beyond dead-to-rights and yet, let him go.
For Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening, Kurt Metzger shares some of the strange tales from growing up as Jehovah’s Witness that fall in the truth-stranger-than-fiction side of things.
Ben Roy tells a story for the latest season of Comedy Central’s storytelling series This Is Not Happening that might make you think twice about touching yourself, especially when you’re all alone in a hotel room.
It also happens to be one of the best damn stories of this season of TINH.
12:30AM tonight on Comedy Central.
Another round of some of the craziest stories ever told by some of the funniest people around is coming up in season 2 of This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir, Comedy Central’s storytelling series.
You’ll be hearing plenty of stories like this one from Jim Breuer where a prank turned out to be much more epic than he possibly could have imagined.
Comedy Central’s storytelling series, This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir, is returning soon and promises more tales of the absolutely ridiculous from great comedians and raconteurs.
This season, you’ll be getting true stories from Henry Rollins, Artie Lange, Sean Patton, Randall Park, Kate Willett, Nicole Byer, Mike Lawrence, Mark Normand, Solomon Georgio, Ron White, Joe DeRosa, Ben Roy, Nick Swardson, Joey Coco Diaz, Andrew Santino, Steve Simeone, Moshe Kasher, Kyle Kinane, Al Madrigal, Felipe Esparza, Jim Breuer, Kurt Metzger, Annie Lederman, Christina Pazsitzky, Dan Cummins, and Bret Ernst.
Get a taste of what sort of nonsense they got into in this trailer.
Look for the second season premiere of This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir on Tues. Feb. 23rd at Comedy Central.
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The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj has been working on this one man show, Homecoming King, following his childhood coming to America for quite some time now.
We got to catch it earlier this year and it’s absolutely heartfelt, funny, touching, and, most importantly, damn good.
It’s having a run at NYC’s Cherry Lane Theatre, where Colin Quinn often does his one man shows, from Oct. 15th-Nov. 15th and we highly urge you to not miss out.
Comedian/storyteller Alex Stone has just released his debut album/great collection of stories “Hello.” off of Rooftop Comedy (not literally).
All his stories have been tightly woven with jokes and humor of a midwestern sensibility that has figured out the big city and acclimated nicely.
Get his album Hello. here.
The latest episode of Above Average’s Storytime has Chris DiStefano recounting his… let’s say, very assertive father and how he deals with Chris possibly getting expelled from a Catholic Boys School. DiStefano plays all the parts including his father in the reenactment.
We’re guessing that your dad probably didn’t do anything like this.
The latest installment of the delightful storytelling web series, Chioke Nassor’s Storytime at Above Average follows the also delightful Maria Bamford recounting a visit to the psych ward that’s even stranger than just going to the psych ward.
While telling it, Maria plays every character in her story as well, a particular area of expertise for Bamford.
Whether you’re meeting her family or you’re meeting Tig Notaro, odds are that you’re going to have an unforgettable experience.
Certainly, Tig fiancé had what will be an unforgettable first meet and greet of Tig’s family as Notaro recounted in a story on The Tonight Show.
Right after that, Tig went to the couch and told a story to Jimmy Fallon, that apparently Jimmy Fallon forgot, of how they first met. This experience is something that Jimmy will probably remember this time around.
All in all, it’s classic, unforgettable Tig.
The unfortunate passing of Taylor Negron at the beginning of this year made us all revisit the long, storied, diverse career of Negron including when he performed comedy and told stories.
One of LA’s famous, longest running shows Uncabaret was one of Negron’s favorite and most frequent places where he would perform. There, he spun fresh tales that might seem “tall” if it was anyone else other than Negron telling them.
Uncabaret and Comedy Dynamics some of his best sets onto one album, Uncabaret Presents Taylor Negron.
Get a preview here, then get the album/piece of comedy history here.
One of the best storytelling series around, This Is Not Happening is back again for what is technically its fourth season.
Two seasons of This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir ran on Comedy Central’s digital arm CC:Studios before getting picked up to run as a full fledged TV series.
Now, it’s going to get a second season at Comedy Central and we’ll get to enjoy diving into the unbelievable things that comedians get themselves into.
This is only one of many amazing Sean O’Connor high school tales and we’re thankful that he’s doing stand-up so we can hear all of them.
This latest story from This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir shows the sort trouble that O’Connor would get into merely from doing a routine dissection in a Biology class. Apparently, it’s the sort of trouble that comes with examining whether this is going to form a pattern of sociopathic behavior.
Watch what happened here.
When you haven’t seen a friend in a long time, giving a gift is always a nice gesture. However, when that gift is mushrooms to trip out on and neither have you tripped on mushrooms before, it gets kind of complicated.
That’s what good friends Ari Shaffir and Pete Carboni did for the latest story on This Is Not Happening and well, we will just let Ari and Pete tell you the rest…
We will say that if this was an ad for taking mushrooms, it would be one of the most convoluted ad for mushrooms ever.
Some of you might know that comedians live lives that you would never guess based on their act and on stage persona.
Tom Segura experienced a great example of that when he met successful, veteran comedian Bruce Bruce and got completely blindsided. Seriously.
This is the latest story for This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir and we can’t stress enough how out-of-left-field this story is especially since it doesn’t involve drugs, alcohol, violence, etc.
If you’ve been wondering what taking a bus across state lines is like these days and if it’s gotten any better, Cy Amundson has a story for you.
The latest story on This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir follows Cy as takes a bus across the Midwest headed to Texas and why, in retrospect, he probably should have pushed down his fear of flying instead of getting in the middle of a brawl between dozens of people in fast food restaurant parking lot.
Sophomore year of high school isn’t usually a highlight year for most folks.
That was not the case for one Jay Larson.
Watch the master storyteller and comedian explain why it was a banner year in this latest story for This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir.