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May 31, 2005
The Silence of the Village Voice: The Absence of Comedy in the City's Most Important Alternative Weekly
From the About Us section of the webpage of the Village Voice:
The recipient of three Pulitzer prizes, the George Polk Award, Front Page Awards, Deadline Club Awards and many others, the Voice has earned a reputation for its groundbreaking investigations of New York City politics, and as the premier expert on New York's downtown scene. Writing and reporting on local and national politics, with opinionated arts, culture, music, dance, film and theater reviews, Web dispatches and comprehensive entertainment listings, the Voice is the authoritative source on all that New York has to offer.
Notice any glaring omissions? The Apiary does. Week after week, the Village Voice, the self asserted arbiter of downtown hipness, flamboyantly disrespects the multitudes of quality original comedy shows produced in the city and everyone who is involved with them. There is no section for comedy in The Village Voice.
You can splat paint on a canvas, jump in the air and twirl, or combine 3 chords in a row, and the Voice will be slobbering up and down your knob. Meanwhile, comedy gets swept under the rug. Why is there a divisive line of precedence drawn between the live performance of a culturally irrelevant Off-Off-Broadway play that no one will ever see or enjoy and one of the many long-running, live performances you can check out at the packed houses of UCB, The PIT, Pianos, and Rififi?
In the last week alone, there have been four articles run in the major New York dailies highlighting some movers and shakers in NYC comedy circles... yet The Village Voice remains tacitly withdrawn.
Read them here:
Channel 102 in the NY Daily News
Improv Everywhere in The Times
Elephant Larry in The Times
Indie comedy article in the NY Post
Both Time Out New York and The Onion recognize the value of comedy listings and featurettes. Both appear to have a sustainable number of advertisers to warrant the page or two of copy as well. It's time for the Village Voice to validate the importance of the city's vibrant comedy scene.
Posted by The Apiary at May 31, 2005 12:04 AM
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