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A Funny Thing: Julia Wiedeman On Abuse and Not Laughing

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: something a little different. For a year now, we've been bringing you stories that we thought were funny, many of which came from disasters, traumatic events in...

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A Funny Thing: Streeter Seidell Loves Dogs, Re-animation of Dead

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Streeter Seidell (CollegeHumor) takes us down his twisting path of pet ownership, from the truth of how horrible cats are to the inevitable dark magic ritual that...

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A Funny Thing: Adam Wade and Peter Aguero Tag Team Their Pants

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: The narratorial tag team of Adam Wade and Peter Aguero form the beast with two butts to double down on the old number two. It's a poop story, okay? Two poop...

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A Funny Thing: Ophira Eisenberg Scrapes the Bottom of the Sex Barrel

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Fresh off bombing her stand up set, Ophira Eisenberg was desperate to turn a bad night into a good one. How to do it? By sleeping with the weird, sad headliner,...

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A Funny Thing: Michael Hartney Gets a Lesson in Sketch Comedy From Rosie...

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Comedian Michael Hartney was a fresh-faced writer's assistant eager to get a foot in the door of the burgeoning gay and lesbian sketch comedy television industry....

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A Funny Thing: Pat Baer Fights Wolves, Finds Love

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Pat Baer, creeped out by an awkward drug party around an unfamiliar campfire, escapes into the forest along with the beautiful, straight-edge subject of his...

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A Funny Thing: Brantley Brice Discovers Himself, Matt Lauer, and the Power of...

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Brantley Brice didn't so much struggle with his sexuality as much as he gleefully did the breaststroke in a river of denial of it. His closet was a palace of...

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A Funny Thing: Melanie Hamlett Nearly Seduced by South American Stilt Clown

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Melanie Hamlett, yearning for the endless, intoxicating adventure of South America found herself couch surfing into a house full of clowns. Literal clowns....

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A Funny Thing: Christian Capozzoli Takes Over the Show

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Christian Capozzoli is your new host of A Funny Thing. Listen as he takes the reins in our first ever studio session and leads the story carriage right over a...

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A Funny Thing: Nick Kanellis Wets the Bedbug

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Christian talks with Nick Kanellis about one horrible night when Nick suffered the perfect storm of bedbugs, robot vodka, human urine on an air mattress, and...

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A Funny Thing: Kim Kutt is the Beauty and the Beast

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Comedian Kim Kutt was enamored with the Spanish handsome, Gaston. But their earliest dalliances hit nothing but snags, and when Kim went the extra mile she found...

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A Funny Thing: Caitlin Brodnick Loses Her Mind to Lose a Few Pounds

by A Funny Thing Caitlin Brodnick thought diets were fun. Really. But then she made herself a lab rat in the cult-like laboratory of the Great American Infomercial. Cast as a "Before" in a meal-plan...

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A Funny Thing: Lisa Kleinman Says Come On, New York

by A Funny Thing Lisa Kleinman moved to New York for the big dreams, the bright lights, and the infinite possibilities. She ended up with a secret life, pregnant legs, and a roommate named White...

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Michelle Markowitz No Longer Likes You as a Man

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Sideburns, zoot suits, and Fred Savage, these are the three omens that signaled Michelle Markowitz's late blooming into a wonderfully awkward young woman....

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A Funny Thing: Cammi Climaco Can Has Cat Puke

by A Funny Thing Our story this week: cats. They are the worst. This is inarguable, timeless wisdom. As if we needed further proof (we didn't), Cammi Climaco investigates just how much of the worst...

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Kurt Braunohler Tells the Story of His First Barfight, Which Involved Him...

by Bradford Evans Here's the latest episode of the Comedy Central storytelling web series, This Is Not Happening. In it, Kurt Braunohler retells his first and only barfight, which was basically just...

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Talking to Mike Birbiglia About Retiring 'My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend' and...

by Joel Arnold Mike Birbiglia isn't in love with standup comedy, and he's not exactly hot on the one-man show either. The workman-like storyteller says he's more interested in blending his favorite...

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Mike Birbiglia and the Importance and Power of Jokes

by Philip Stamato Mike Birbiglia has a very unique ability: the ability to tell any story, like the story of jumping out of a hotel window in Walla Walla, Washington, and make it relatable. To a...

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Standup, Storytelling and Radio Hosting with Ophira Eisenberg

by Lara Zarum Ophira Eisenberg is a standup comic, the host of NPR’s live quiz show Ask Me Another, and a regular host and contributor to the popular live storytelling series The Moth. Somehow, she...

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A Funny Thing: Julia Wiedeman On Abuse and Not Laughing

Our story this week: something a little different. For a year now, we’ve been bringing you stories that we thought were funny, many of which came from disasters, traumatic events in the lives of the...

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