The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you watch Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with any regularity, then you may have seen Tom Shillue multiple times without even knowing it. Shillue is quite the barbershop singer, in addition to perfecting a comedic storytelling style. On Wednesday night’s Late Night, Shillue discusses just how white his upbringing …
Phil Hanley returned to the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson the other night. Hanley never wears shorts. But he’s not vegan. You’ll learn a few other things about Hanley, too, in this performance. Such as the fact that he never kisses on the first date. Or the proper way …
Multifaceted, multilingual, matador. These three words tell you what you need to know about Reggie Watts for his latest performance on Conan, which happened Thursday night. Need three more words? How about “Camarones! Mantequilla! Madrid!” Check it!
Craig Fergus0n enjoys surprising viewers in the cold open of his Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Thursday night’s episode on CBS was no exception, as Ferguson ceded the stage to Eddie Izzard — playing the role of Ferguson! Izzard tried to Glasgow up his accent and launch into …
Chris D’Elia, on the East Coast performing headlining dates at Carolines, swung by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to do a stand-up set and offer his impressions of drunk girls, and how they’re different from drunk guys. A drunk girl, as impersonated by D’Elia, starts off sounding a little bit …
On the same day that President Barack Obama visited The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central published the results of a comprehensive study it had commissioned to understand how humor impacts the political beliefs of Millennials (also known as Generation Y) — the 80 million Americans currently aged 16-32. …
Stand-up comedian Sean O’Connor had a bit of a substance abuse problem when he was a teen-ager. His parents decided the best solution was to send him to magic camp. Why are you looking at me like this was my idea? It wasn’t. O’Connor himself was puzzled by the experience. …
Ricky Gervais has a contest that will grant one stand-up comedian with a three-minute spot to perform on Conan. Wait, what? Why? Doesn’t Gervais have his own TV shows? And why isn’t Conan O’Brien holding this contest instead? It’s all about the new mobile app Gervais has launched called Just …
Hari Kondabolu makes you think without even realizing you were supposed to be thinking. Jokes! Such as: How can a Back to the Future bit make you think about racism and religion both? Ah. Time travel. Kondabolu also introduces his set with a reference to a European heckling that backfired, …
Jamie Lee made her late-night TV debut the other night on Conan. You may have seen her almost making the finals of the “final” Last Comic Standing. For her first full set on basic cable late-night regular TV programming, Lee managed to dance the line between safe for work and …
