The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tommy Johnagin has appeared on Late Show with David Letterman more than once, which is a pretty big deal, but not like finishing runner-up on Last Comic Standing, although he has done that, too. So, what would we learn when Johnagin made his debut appearance on Conan? Well, for one …
Eddie Brill isn’t just the comedy booker for Late Show with David Letterman, he’s also a stand-up comedian himself who warms up the show’s audiences in the Ed Sullivan Theatre. On Friday night, Brill booked himself a few minutes on the show, in which he explored the oddities of honesty …
In case you missed it, Barry Rothbart made his late-night TV debut the other night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. And Rothbart made some very valid points about drugs, conversations that could be movie plots as well as actual movies that don’t seem to make sense. Roll the …
Artie Lange’s return to the spotlight is fairly complete now, following Friday night’s appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. Dave wanted to know what Artie has been up to in the past couple of years, and Artie happily obliged with stories about living in a psych ward and how …
Dear friend of the site Gary Gulman appeared on Conan last night, and in addition to his fond remembrance of the Sony Discman, Gulman also talked about how Things Remembered must be getting killed during the recession, and how the @ symbol has suddenly become more powerful than his idealized …
What more do you need to know? Steven Wright paid another visit to the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and it was delightful. Roll the clip. Steven Wright is in the middle of a stand-up tour. Check him out in a live venue near you.
Look. People are submitting videos this month for the annual Andy Kaufman Award competition (the submission date deadline was this past Monday, I just found out), and I just feel as though in the past couple of years, the awards have become, well, less Andy Kaufmanesque? Less weird. Less special. …
Tracy Morgan was on last night’s Late Show with David Letterman, and Letterman being Letterman, he wanted to ask Morgan about what happened this summer in Tennessee when Morgan flew back to apologize to an audience member because of a joke in which Morgan suggested he’d kill his own son …
Jo Koy was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday night, and he talked at length about his problems with sleep apnea. He also has a Filipino mother. Did he use her accent to get laughs? What do you think? Roll the clip. https://www.hulu.com/watch/285419/the-tonight-show-with-jay-leno-jo-koy
Karen Rontowski likes to think outside of the box. And she tells you why in her network TV debut, which she made Friday night on Late Show with David Letterman. Congrats, Karen! Roll the clip.
