The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Anthony Jeselnik’s first hour-long TV special, Caligula, airs this weekend on Comedy Central in advance of his uncensored CD/DVD of the same name next week and his weekly cable series in February. On Thursday night’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jeselnik opened his set by referencing Ryan Seacrest and …
Does your stand-up show include fireworks? How about fire? No? Kevin Hart’s shows do. Then again, Hart tours arenas now — he sold out two dates at Madison Square Garden in November, for which he filmed his next stand-up concert film. On last night’s episode of Conan, Hart explained to …
On Wednesday night’s Conan, Conan O’Brien asked guest Ricky Gervais (there to promote his new TV series Derek, after making a similar stop at the TV Critics Association press tour) about his habit of posting unflattering self-portraits of himself while in the bathtub. Gervais not only answered the question, but …
Dan Soder made his late-night TV debut last night on Conan, and killed it. Soder has a great attitude on and off-stage and great jokes to go with it, too. In this performance, Soder makes fun of himself and his generation of Millennials, illustrating it via tattoos; fills us in …
Two Jokes Over the Line By Ritch Shydner In 1962, when Johnny Carson made his debut as host of The Tonight Show, there were three channels on the TV. Pick one, read a book or stare at each other. In no time, Carson was “The King of Late Night,” and …
Kyle Kinane just put out his first hourlong Comedy Central special, Whiskey Icarus. Kinane is one of my favorites. Why don’t you make him one of yours, too? To help celebrate (or promote the new disc), Kinane appeared last night on Conan, where he talked about finding love through “Thousand …
Nobody is booking comedy guests for late-night TV chat in America these days quite like my friends at Team Coco. Or, should I type, quite as daringly and creatively — for every traditional stand-up performance you may see on Conan in his TBS era, you’re just as likely to find …
Neal Brennan restored order to the universe on his second appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, by revealing the relative order of things. Black people are much more relaxed than white people, and women are much more determined to plan everything out, but for what purpose? And here’s another …
Tommy Johnagin had quite a 2012, as he and his girlfriend became parents, and he also signed a script deal with NBC to turn his real-life experiences into a sitcom. On Conan, Johnagin lets us know how impending fatherhood treated him and his girlfriend, and how it impacted their sex …
On his new CD, “Hear This!” you have to wait until the encore to hear about potential new greeting cards that keep it real in the world of Dan Cummins. Online, you don’t have to wait that long. Just click this clip of Cummins from Wednesday night’s Tonight Show with …
