I don’t know if Cameron Esposito ever considered calling her upcoming stand-up album Zero Penis Summer, but I’m sure Same Sex Symbol has a certain symmetry and family-friendly appeal when merchandising and marketing, too. In this performance from Thursday’s Conan, you’ll also hear Esposito relay a delightful tale about two people can see the world differently and yet beautifully. Roll the...
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Fresh off his win last Thursday on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the season 8 winner, Rod Man made his debut later that night with a short set on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Corporate synergy! You have some of this already this season during his winning campaign on Last Comic, in which Rod Man impressed the judges Roseanne, Russell Peters and Keenen Ivory Wayans to pick him the champ, thanks to his befuddled everyman delivery. Here he jokes about immigration reform and supermarket checkout lines. Roll the...
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This season they let the judges and not the viewing or the studio audience decide. So it was a celebrity expert panel of Roseanne, Russell Peters and Keenen Ivory Wayans who ultimately handpicked Rod Man, a journeyman stand-up, husband and father in Los Angeles originally from Georgia, to win the eighth season of Last Comic Standing on Thursday night. Rod Man’s victory wasn’t the biggest surprise of the evening. That’d have to the cameo voiceover from NBC’s Olympics anchor Bob Costas introducing him and his fellow two finalists — Nikki Carr and Lachlan Patterson — before host JB Smoove...
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