The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Mark Normand has TV credits to his name, but last night was his “dream come true” as he said at the end of performing his official late-night debut on Conan. Interesting intro: Having Conan O’Brien tell the audience you’re hungover. The intro, of course, is all just a set up …
Cecily Strong already has proven herself to be the strongest rookie in this season’s cast of Saturday Night Live. On her first late-night TV talk-show appearance, Strong told Jimmy Fallon — himself an SNL alum, whose sidekick Steve Higgins remains a longtime SNL producer — about her audition last summer …
Rob Delaney has upward of 765,000 followers of his Twitter feed @robdelaney. Maybe even more than that now. What you read on his Twitter, however, and what you actually can hear him say on network TV are two very different things. For one, you can’t say much of what Delaney …
Jeff Caldwell returned for another stand-up performance on last Friday’s episode of Late Show with David Letterman. This time around, Caldwell describes what it’s like as a comedian married to an artist when the comedian is considered the main breadwinner, living in New Jersey, the use of reservoir water and …
Jerry Seinfeld returned to Late Show with David Letterman tonight, but on this trip, Letterman turned the tables on Seinfeld, asking when he might be invited as a guest on Jerry’s webseries for Crackle, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Well. Would he? Could he? Should he? Seinfeld joked about Letterman …
Jackie Kashian made her late-night TV debut last night on Conan, and what did we learn? For one thing, marrying a nerd who plays video games and reads comic books is good for fidelity and security, because it “keeps him off the pipe, keeps him off the pole.” For another, …
There once was a time when stand-up comedians who performed on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson didn’t know when they’d actually appear on the TV show. They recorded their sets separately in front of the appropriate live studio audience, to be sure, but those sets aired later. Sometimes much …
Has any stand-up comedian performed more stand-up sets on David Letterman’s shows than Jake Johannsen? Think about it for a moment. Johannsen has performed more than 40 times on Letterman’s late-night shows, dating back to his NBC Late Night overnights in the 1980s. For his first appearance on Late Show …
Darryl Lenox performed on Thursday night’s episode of Conan. Lenox joked about his formerly poor eyesight — can you make a joke that goes from Cookie Monster to Halle Berry to German porn in three easy steps? — the dangers in undergoing surgery to fix his eyes, and what happens …
Can you tell a pedophilia joke on network television? Kurt Metzger did. On his second appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Metzger not only stunned the studio audience on Wednesday night’s program with a bit about how one Toddlers and Tiara mom unwittingly turned off would-be pedophiles, but also …
