The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Well, this was different. Wednesday’s episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden promised a stand-up comedy performance by Trey Wakeman, whom Corden claimed they’d booked to perform back in March 2020 but had to reschedule all the way until now due to the pandemic. But Wakeman looked suspiciously …
Lukas Arnold is an actor and voiceover artist who graduated from Northwestern University in 2017 and decided to pursue stand-up comedy after taking a class at Carolines on Broadway. He was just starting to get gigs around New York City when the COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down. On March 18, …
Laurie Kilmartin has a new comedy album out now, “Corset,” and here she was on Thursday’s Late Late Show to share her tips on mothering a teenage boy in the 2020s. For one thing, how to stop him from watching porn! For another, say bye-bye to Google and bring back …
Jared Fried made his Tonight Show debut on Thursday, and revealed to us what it’s like to perform at colleges, what it means to not really be an adult these days (and how he definitely wasn’t one when he was in college). Do adults still text their parents when their …
Jenny Zigrino first hit my radar in 2014 via the Marlon Wayans comedy contest on TBS, Funniest Wins. Zigrino didn’t win the contest, but much like her colleagues who didn’t “win” Last Comic Standing, she may just be winning the long game. Wayans cast her in his parody movie, 50 Shades of Black. She …
Joyelle Nicole Johnson made her second appearance on The Tonight Show in 2021, and for good reason: Her first hour stand-up special premieres this weekend on NBCUniversal’s Peacock platform, and its executive produced by Jimmy Fallon! So here’s a snippet from the special, where Johnson shares her experience sharing a …
If you think married people are grown-ups, then hear Atsuko Okatsuka out, because in her set on The Late Late Show, she’ll explain why single people are the true adults in the room.
As befits her name, Joyelle Nicole Johnson is a comedian and writer who brings joy to the stage. She made her network TV debut in 2018 on Late Night with Seth Meyers, but it was her May 2021 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that made such an impression that …
Ricky Velez grew up in a blue-collar family in Queens and started living a blue-collar career before he discovered comedy, roomed with Pete Davidson, and won the New York’s Funniest stand-up competition. In that order. After winning that contest in 2014, Velez rose quickly through the ranks, earning a gig …
Ahir Shah is a British comedian who was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2017 and 2018. He has turned his 2019 touring show, DOTS, into his first proper televised comedy special, which debuted on HBO Max in 2021. Shah sat down with me over …
