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Parting from the long-established tradition of such events, the inaugural Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival began with the awards ceremony.
“I wonder if I could trick a gynecologist, just by tucking my penis behind my legs.”
Mirman has a skewed observational wit rather than a sweaty Friars’ Club schtick
“There’s a reason there’s a stereotype of hacky stand-up,” says Eugene Mirman. “It’s because it was real.”
Top 100 entertainers of 2004: In an ideal world, Eugene would become the next Seinfeld…
The story of Eugene Mirman is the standard one for almost any Russian immigrant…
It’s hard to change the world through comedy. But Eugene Mirman, who visits the Rock and Roll Hotel Sunday, humbly suggests his method is preferable to Stalinism.
A Night Out With Eugene Mirman. Bull’s-Eye for an Easy Mark.
Mirman’s second comedy album, En Garde, Society! (Sub Pop) features yuks, videos and sex advice.
Today, West Wing screenwriter and former Gore speechwriter Eli Attie and comedian Eugene Mirman discuss the meaninglessness of faster news cycles, starting Obama rumors, and working on McCain’s TV show.
But in the maverick spirit of John McCain, they ignored such technicalities. That is, until their on-air personality, New York comedian Eugene Mirman, had a little incident with some chicken.
What’s the last thing you saw on Broadway?
A homeless man pee near/on Crate and Barrel. Do you see what I did with that? Now you know why I am a Level-8 Noticer.
Today, New York Times political reporter Patrick Healy and comedian Eugene Mirman discuss forgetting the things Sarah Palin named her children after, what Americans really want, and Bette Midler for V.P.
Eugene Mirman ranks among America’s most fearless comedians
It was in late December 2004 when New York-based comedian Eugene Mirman first received a phone-call from a nonprofit organization called “Faith, Family and Freedom,” asking…
Eugene Mirman on The Sound of Young America
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Eugene Mirman and Michael Showalter on NPR’s Soundcheck
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Equal parts Andy Kaufman and Andy Warhol, Mirman is about absurdity over laugh-out-loud punch lines.
Eugene Mirman: a comedian. 15 questions. 15 answers. discuss. A very, very funny guy.
Careful with that axe, Eugene!
You were born in Russia, which doesn’t seem the ideal birthplace for a comedian. No one ever says, “My God, the Russians are a hoot.” I think the whole hammer-and-sickle period hurt them.
Comedian Eugene Mirman has a funny name. He draws attention to this frequently during his comedy routines, drawing out the syllables in a low voice and self-inflicting cheap shots about male mermaids.
I love the Velvet Underground. I remember sitting in RePlace (a drop-in center/ crisis hotline where I volunteered as a misanthropic teen) listening to The Doors soundtrack and Heroin came on.
Comedy, circa the 21st century, generally comes in one of two flavors: mainstream or indie. Eugene Mirman falls squarely in the latter camp.
And then in a completely separate thought I remembered I had an interview that never got published with Eugene Mirman from the 2006 Vancouver Comedy Festival. His comedy albums are pretty good too.
It’s a drizzly Friday night, and Charlie’s Kitchen in Cambridge is packed. Comedian Eugene Mirman is standing at the bar with Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang talking to a Canadian author and his friend, whom they met earlier in the evening at a Harvard Coop book event.
New York-based comedian Eugene Mirman is coming to Austin to add another bullet to his résumé: emcee of the 11th annual SXSW Web Awards.
When Eugene was in the 8th grade he once got a -8 on a homework assignment for math class (I guess this was that new math they were trying to teach us back in the 80s). One time at a party he defeated the girl who was the backgammon champion of Chicago.
The mostly-deserted Gowanus district of Brooklyn rocked last night with the last show of The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival.
When I received an email from the good people at Sub-Pop records informing me that I was being sent the new comedy album En Garde Society by Eugene Mirman, I will admit it made me a little nervous.
We’re sitting in a café, and I can swear if I want, and it’ll be printed, and the government isn’t going to destroy me just yet. Pretty good.
Eugene Mirman’s recently released second album En Garde, Society! was accompanied by self-generated protests against himself.
When so many comics mimic each other, one wonders if Mirman has been in a vacuum.
Gothamist had been listening to the new CD at work, but we couldn’t stop laughing (so hard we were crying), so we had to turn it off for fear our employers would have us committed.
Comedy isn’t something you decide to do, it’s something that decides you. That would be a good answer if I was a cowboy/ bounty hunter or space traveler.
WE ALL SCREAM FOR EUGENE
Eugene is a Russian-born, Boston-educated, local hero.
Except for scientists and businessmen, few Americans pursue a career based on anything related to their college major. An exception is Eugene Mirman…
Some of New York’s smartest and most successful comics were on hand to fete the launch and give the crowd a taste of their peculiar brand of stand-up.