Ask John Achkar if he’s made it as a comedian and he’ll tell you, quite calmly, that he has no idea, and that the concept might not even exist. This is a man who’s headlined the Olympia Paris in front of 2,000 people, but sure, let’s pretend that’s ambiguous.
What isn’t ambiguous: he writes…
Armageddon Out Of Here: Tom Johnson's Celebration of Humanity at Its Absolute Worst
September 1, 2026
Ask Tom Johnson what Armageddon Out Of Here is about and he’ll give you two answers. The intellectual one: a look at how people behave when there’s no consequence left. The real one: an excuse for him and Rob Glenister to hit each other, swear, and put on silly accents for an hour. Both are apparently true at the…
Rebecca Wolf auditioned for her first school play, was too shy to get a part, then watched the show from the audience and decided that was what she wanted to do. The following year she landed the role of Glenn the Gull. As she puts it now, she has gone from bird to pig and intends to work through the entire animal kingdom…
There’s a version of comedy history where Ian Edwards gets remembered as a footnote. Instead, he became the answer to a trivia question: first comedian ever signed to Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco Records. Before that, by his own telling, most of the industry acted like he didn’t exist.
He walked us…
Winnie Stack started keeping a journal at nine, and kept it religiously. She wrote down as much detail as she could. She drew a picture beside almost every entry. She suspected even then that she would read them again one day. She did not expect to build a play out of them. @Jenna is that play, and the first Winnie Stack has…
Jackie Joy moved from Brazil to Vancouver with almost no English. Across from her office was a club called Comedy Dark. Bring three people and you got four minutes on stage. She told her friends she was going to do it. Nobody believed her, on the grounds that her English was broken. She had already handed in a letter saying she…
Brendon Lemon has been telling jokes for twenty-five years. The last three and a half he has spent learning how to fail at them properly. Born in Detroit, now based in New York, he first took a microphone in 2002. The room was Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle, the oldest club in America still run by its original owner. He arrived…