The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Congrats to Erin Jackson on her Late Night set from Thursday, which came about rather quickly. Jackson had done a fund-raising gig last week at Gotham Comedy Club. Pretty big gig, as it’d turn out. Amy Schumer. Jerry Seinfeld. Seth Meyers. After watching Jackson perform, Meyers offered her the Late …
Perhaps the only thing more important to Ray Harrington than pronouncing words correctly is remembering when the funniest jokes take place. Timing! Here’s his set from Conan for you to enjoy right now.
Nick Thune returned to The Tonight Show on Monday night to tell some jokes while playing the guitar, and then also got to sit for panel afterward.
Carmen Lynch is dating a guy with a child, and has jokes to share about that, as well as her awkwardly hot life as the child of parents who have been married as long as her boyfriend has been alive. Don’t worry. The math all checks out.
Demetri Martin used his late-night performance on The Late Late Show to promote his upcoming tour dates, despite being booked just to tell jokes. Jokes! You can find his tour dates here, by the way, in case you didn’t see them when Martin showed them to you on camera.
Michael Palascak has been in a long-term relationship for six years, which makes him a little wistful for some alone time every once in a while. Which is difficult to describe to your partner? Palascak explores that, and jokes about going back to Illinois to perform on a police benefit, …
Kyle Ayers grew up in a redneck family in Missouri. How redneck? Ayers gladly explains in this performance on Monday’s Conan. He also learns some rules about karaoke and boycotts, and oh yeah, pulls off quite the prank.
Dylan Sullivan wasn’t always fat, as he related in his late-night debut on Monday’s Lights Out with David Spade. Sullivan joked about his brief dalliance with “hot people things,” and what his life is like now.
Todd Glass knows where the camera is. Glass knows who he’s playing to. He’s playing to you, people! He’s got other thoughts for you, too. Here’s a snippet from his performance at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club in Las Vegas, as broadcast Wednesday on JKL. Roll it!
Raanan Hershberg has a twin sister. Identical, you may ask, but maybe you shouldn’t ask, as Hershberg joked on The Late Late Show. He also has a Jewish mother who talks to him as if he’s one of her elementary school students. Which sometimes makes sense.
