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Are you a fan of Demetri Martin, person? Perhaps you only just got acquainted with him via his new Comedy Central series, "Important Things with Demetri Martin", or caught a glimpse of him doing a late night segment or as "Youth Correspondent" on "The Daily Show". At any rate, enough Bostonians like him enough to have completely sold out all three of his shows: one on Thursday and two on Friday at The Wilbur Theater.

Comedian Mitch Fatel can't wait to come to Boston after receiving a great reception at his first foray into town last year. This time Fatel will be taking over the beautiful Wilbur Theatre for two shows this Saturday night (7:00pm & 9:45pm). You've had a chance to see Fatel on all the late night shows, Conan, Letterman, Leno, and has had a special on Comedy Central, but we particularly have loved his appearances on "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist".

Bostonist Interview with Comedian Bill Burr from Tom Lewis on Vimeo.

Comedian Brian Regan makes a return to the Orpheum this Friday night. Regan has performed solo at the Orpheum in the past as well as in support of Denis Leary's charity-fest "Comics Come Home". Brian Regan is familiar to many, what with his 19+ appearances on "The Late Show With David Letterman", as well as countless appearances on Conan/Johnny Carson/Dr. Katz/Opie and Anthony/Comedy Central specials/etc.

Comedian/actor/host Joe Rogan performs at The Wilbur Theater on Friday, September 12th. If you can't make his show in Boston, he plays two shows in Chicopee on Saturday.

Bill Burr's excellent live show "Why Do I Do This?" makes it's TV debut on August 31st, Comedy Central at 11:00pm. Burr, born in Canton, MA, got his start in Boston by stepping onstage during a contest for "Funniest College Student" and hasn't looked back. You've had many opportunities to get familiar with Burr over the past 15 years, what with appearances on "Chappelle's Show", HBO's "One Night Stand", "The Late Show With David Letterman", his CD "Emotionally Unavailable", The Opie and Anthony Show, and his own XM Radio show, "Uninformed". Not that Burr held anything back in his previous specials but this is one that shouldn't be missed. His bits on overpopulation, homophobia, Hollywood portrayals of racism, and the insane internal dialogues we all have, set a comedic bar on those topics that will be hard to surpass for quite some time. LAist had a chance to speak with Burr as he prepares for a tour supporting a new set of material, good news for all the fans that Sunday's special will create.

Saturday, June 7th, 7:00pm, First Parish Church Meetinghouse, $5

The Five Brothers, aka Mitt Romney's kids who all blog for Dad, are toothy, cute, and so wholesome it could make your brain bleed. They strike us as mostly harmless sorts who just want to tell the world how cool their Dad is. But they do not, under any circumstances, need to be playing touch football with streamers dangling around their butts. The Team Romney football game marks the second time that Bostonist has seen...

5 Funny Females Saturday, November 10--tonight!, 8:00 pm Midway Café, 3496 Washington, Jamaica Plain, $15 Official Site Can't make it to Comics Come Home? Or do you just want to see rising stars who aren't always on Comedy Central 24/7? Five funny females will be performing in Jamaica Plain tonight. The performers include host Susan Alexander, Maggie MacDonald, Erin Judge, Maria Ciampa, and Michelle Buteau. Urban myths and legends have sprung up that women...

"Authorial Intent" wraps up book events for the week in the Boston area. Wednesday, October 24 Chris Matthews, 6:00 pm, Coolidge Corner (via Brookline Booksmith), $5 Recently, Jon Stewart sank his fangs into Matthews for pimping the concept that "Life's a Campaign," which is, admittedly, a little scary. Bostonist prefers the old saw that life is a bowl of cherries. Watch what Matthews has dubbed the "interview from hell," and you'll already be armed with...

--Someone made a big mistake on Sunday by letting a sexual assault suspect go to the hospital without supervision. Police recaptured Edwardo Aponte of Dorchester this morning, but the incident makes us wonder what the BPD supervisor on duty was thinking. On Sunday, Aponte said he was sick, went to New England Medical Center in an ambulance, and walked out. Isn't that the oldest trick in the book? Even the characters of Comedy Central's Halfway...

The Apples in Stereo will be at the Middle East Downstairs tonight at 8:00 pm.

--A group of female students at Framingham State College stole 1,000 copies of the student newspaper. What prompted them to do such a thing? They were angry at an editorial? They had passionate feelings about a major issue and were engaged in some kind of protest? No. They thought that a front-page image made them look fat. They painted letters on their stomachs and showed them at a lacrosse game. It wasn't as if...

Ishmael Beah will read at the Brattle Theatre at 6:00 pm tomorrow, Tuesday, March 13. Tickets are $3. It's rare when you see Jon Stewart flummoxed. But author Ishmael Beah's life story almost left Stewart at a loss for words. He said the book "made his heart hurt." Just hearing about the book would "make your heart hurt." Ishmael Beah writes of his experiences fighting in Sierra Leone in A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of...

The heavily caffeinated Jonathan Katz will be at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $25 to $30. The hyper-intelligent, hyper-witty, and just plain old hyper comedian Jonathan Katz will be at Jimmy Tingle's Off-Broadway this weekend to perform some standup. Katz, who lives in Newton, just released his first comedy CD. Katz's standup style is goofy and chilled out. You might be surprised to learn that he is...

Bostonist caught the Reno 911!: Miami sneak preview a few days ago and fully intended to write about it sooner if it weren't for another unmentionable movie based on a TV show. Overall, the audience was pleased with the big-screen version of the Comedy Central COPS spoof.

Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale have been running a well received comedy show in New York for a bit called Invite Them Up. It's a venue for comedians to test a bit of new material on stage. The "super deluxe holiday show" (language from their website) will be making the on the road appearance at the Paradise Rock Club tonight at 8 pm. Along with Mirman and Tisdale, Jon Benjamin, AD Miles, and David Cross will share the bill.

We've embedded this super long above discussion from Google Video here because the real video stream from the KSG presentation is being finicky and we'd have to upgrade our flash player to actually see the clips on the Comedy Central Colbert page.

In a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies. In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries. One moviegoer who can be in three places at once. This week, Boston's movie theaters offer a variety of giant monsters (fire-breathing turtles, radioactive lizards, skyscraper-climbing apes), smaller monsters (teenagers on myspace, paintball enthusiasts), and a terrifying alternate universe where everyone sings with R. Kelly's voice. Wednesday 4/26 King Kong & Godzilla Triple Feature A...

Like most people, we start to get a little sleepy when politicians start talking. We tend to doze off completely when politicians start talking about their books. And we just pass out cold when politicians start talking about a book that has "America" in the title. So we really can't recall much of what Ted Kennedy had to say about his book "America: Back on Track" last night on "The Daily Show". Usually we skip...

Bostonist got word from our friends at Gothamist that Todd Barry would be in town this week. Jimmy Tingle’s Off Broadway up in Somerville will host the New York native comic Friday at 7:30 p.m. We have it on good authority from both Gothamist and DCist that Mr. Barry will figuratively split our sides on Friday. He’s a veteran of Letterman, Conan (a re-run aired last night), and a number of appearances on Comedy Central—from...

The Daily Show on Comedy Central provides even the media with a breath of fresh air. Just because Jon Stewart is attributed as part of the reason CNN canned Tucker and Crossfire does not make a fake news show real. We trust Ed Helms to bring us the fake news and were truly inspired when we saw him balls out running around Gothamist’s turf wearing a maple leaf on his chest. Thankfully WHDH refrained...