The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Three nights in a row this week, one of the late-night talk shows has trotted out a stand-up comedian. On Wednesday, it was The Late Show‘s turn, and here’s Russell Howard visiting us from Britain. Weird timing for these particular Putin jokes, but ok.
Eric Nuemann made his Tonight Show debut on Tuesday, joking about the chance to be away from his overprotective mom, although it could be worse. You could have the same therapist as your mother. Oh wait, that’s Neumann, too.
Late-night shows took a break from stand-up comedy during the Winter Olympics, but now that that’s done, we can get back to booking comedians on the TV? Great. Here’s Sam Morril on The Late Late Show, and you can see by the way James Corden embraced him afterward, just how …
Blair Socci played Division I college volleyball and went to grad school for creative writing before finding her voice through stand-up comedy. Her first break came in 2016 co-starring in the MTV sketch show, Ladylike. After becoming a New Face at Just For Laughs, Socci made her way back to …
R.J. Fried turned down the National Hockey League first to pursue his college education, and then a career in comedy. So far, so good. Fried is an Emmy-nominated and WGA Award-winning comedy writer, producer, and performer whose credits have included Triumph’s Election Special 2016, (Hulu), Maya & Marty (NBC), Onion Sportsdome (Comedy …
Al Madrigal grew up in San Francisco and worked in his family’s HR business for 10 years before deciding to pursue a career in comedy. The next decade found Madrigal on the cusp of fame, starring or co-starring in a handful of network sitcoms and even more TV pilots that …
In the late 1990s, between the comedy booms, perhaps the hottest live stand-up show in Los Angeles happened every week on a Tuesday night. That’s when Guy Torry began hosting Phat Tuesdays at The Comedy Store, introducing black comedy for black audiences into the lily-white-dominated landscape of show business — …
Jackie Kashian put out one of the best comedy specials of 2021. I said so over on Decider! Here she/her is performing a few minutes of the jokes from “Stay-Kashian” on The Late Late Show with James Corden on Monday night.
Ali Vingiano is a writer, actress and filmmaking comedian who has leveled up over the course of the pandemic. She received her first Writer’s Guild Award nomination in 2022 for her work as a writer and executive story editor on Apple TV+s The Morning Show, and also stars in a …
Sean Donnelly made his Tonight Show debut on Friday night, several years and more than 60 pounds lighter since he got to do Letterman. Donnelly joked about the changes his body has gone through going into his 40s, as well as how intermittent fasting worked better for him than working …
