Jimmy Tingle called Bostonist yesterday to console us about the closing of Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway in Davis Square. Tingle admitted in the conversation that the sheer work involved with running the theater was taking its toll, and he needed a break. He said, "I've done this, and I basically need to do something else." He stressed that his decision to close the Theater had nothing to do with the fact that the lease was......

In some truly sad news for local comedy and the arts, Jimmy Tingle has decided to close Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater in Davis Square. The theater will close when the lease expires at the end of this month. Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway always brought in some incredible artists that you wouldn't see anywhere else, and, to Bostonist's delight, the legendary Mort Sahl did a few nights there recently. The theater looked suspiciously like a......

Mort Sahl will perform at Jimmy Tingle's tonight, August 24, and Saturday, August 25, at 7:30 pm. He will also perform Sunday, August 26, at 3:00 pm. For more details, visit the Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway website. After 80 years on this planet, comedian Mort Sahl knows what he likes. V-neck turtlenecks sweaters, for starters. Current events. People with a sense of humor. What Sahl doesn't like became wonderfully apparent during his performance at Jimmy......

Mort Sahl will perform at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater on Thursday night. For more information, go to Jimmy Tingle's website. All shows are at 7:30 pm. Without Mort Sahl, there would be no Daily Show or Colbert Report. James Wolcott at Vanity Fair went so far as to suggest that Sahl was more important to American comedy than Lenny Bruce. Whether or not that's true, Sahl laid the foundation for today's political satire. He......

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......

Just as you're coming down from the high of celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., along comes the birth date of another great American, and this time it's one of Boston's own. Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 - 300 years ago! - on what is now Milk Street, right here in the Hub (although the man who would give Boston that nickname wouldn't be born for another 103 years). Philly......

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......