IIf you missed Kathleen on Dr. Phil last week, check out a quick clip of her and Kirk Fox takin’ it to the streets.
See the battle of the sexes on the street with comedians Kathleen Madigan and Kirk Fox
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Welcome to the new Kathleen Madigan website!
Welcome to the brand spanking new website! We hope this new site is a little slicker, a lot easier to navigate and more fun for all of Kathleen’s fans. We’ve worked to keep the best of the old site while updating the look and adding one new, and hopefully popular, feature–a blog. Kathleen will be writing blogs regularly and all of you will have the chance to chime in with comments. Here’s a quick overview of where to find everything…
- Tour – current performance schedule & ticket links. You can now add to your Google or iCalendar as well as subscribe via RSS
- News – Info on upcoming TV/Radio appearances, CD/DVD releases and other noteworthy items
- Press – interesting interviews with Kathleen over the last few years
- Video – clips of Kathleen performing
- Photo Gallery – Pics of Kathleen, her friends and her travels
- Store – Links to buy Kathleen’s CD’s/DVD’s
- Bio/Credits – Everything and more you would ever want to know about Kathleen and her professional career
- Contact – Newsletter signup, Press and booking info, site contact
So, have some fun, explore and check back often! If you experience any technical problems please email the Webmistress.
Chicago Sun-Times – Comic Loves Audiences’ Honesty
Being a stand-up comedian means being immediately reviewed by audience members on whether something is funny or not. Kathleen Madigan, who will appear April 1 at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet, finds the audiences’ honesty one of the most satisfying aspects of her career.
“My satisfaction in performing comes from the instant knowledge if something is funny or not and it’s brutally honest,” she said. “People may clap for a bad song, but they won’t fake laugh if something isn’t funny.”
Madigan has been making people laugh (the real thing, not a “fake” laugh) since she was a youngster.
“It’s funny, because everyone in my family is pretty funny,” Madigan said, “so I never thought making people laugh was a big deal. We all can kind of do it, so I don’t really remember thinking about it.”
Boston Comedy Blog – Interview: Kathleen Madigan
There is little Kathleen Madigan hasn’t done in her roughly twenty years in comedy. She’s left her original profession (in her case, journalism), done the big move from St. Louis to L.A., toured the country, done every conceivable TV talk show, and even done reality television as a contestant on Last Comic Standing. Most recently, she’s played to the troops in Afghanistan, made the leap from clubs to theatres, and found herself on the set of the Dr. Phil show.
But unlike some for whom stand-up is a means to an end, the comedy is the thing for Madigan. It’s what sustains her. “[It’s] Just fun,” she told me, speaking by phone from Florida, where she was visiting family. “Just stupid fun. I mean, if I wasn’t onstage telling jokes I’d probably be just at a bar talking to somebody. It’s kind of the same, except somebody’s paying me.”
I spoke with Madigan about comedy, Dr. Phil, staying healthy, and a plethora of subjects ahead of her show this Friday at the Comedy Connection Wilbur Theatre. The vast majority of that conversation is included here.
Kathleen Madigan discusses golf with comics, Afghanistan sand
Today, Kathleen Madigan gives us tantalizing details about golfing with her friends Lewis Black and Ron White.
“Lewis has gotten much better over the years. He’s really calmed down on the golf course,” she says.
Madigan confirms she has seen Black “helicopter” a club into the air (not a surprise, since his onstage demeanor is midlevel hyperventilation).
“He actually did that in Florida, into an environmentally protected alligator habitat,” she says.