The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jews. Gays. Mark Normand isn’t really afraid of telling any jokes that may offend you onstage, or on TV, as he demonstrated again Tuesday night on Conan. “I wish I cared about anything as much as you cared about that joke.” And as he pointed out, you’re much more able …
What’s it like growing up in the woods of northern Wisconsin? Mary Mack tells all in her most recent performance on Conan. Including the emotional capabilities of lettuce versus tater tots. Nothing beats mashed potatoes, though. Who knew? Roll the clip!
Emmy Blotnick discovered a name for her lifestyle thanks to a wrong answer on Wheel of Fortune, and may be the next new member of Fifth Harmony. Learn all this and more from Blotnick’s performance Monday night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Roll the clip!
Amberia Allen is a professor at UCLA who made her TV debut as a stand-up comedian on Friday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. So Allen knows her words enough to correct people, or to co-opt contradictory white girl statements. But is she wifey material? Roll the clip.
Kelsey Cook owes her life to foosball, and she explained why in her stand-up comedy performance Friday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Cook also joked about the joys of being allergic to both peanuts and latex, so roll that clip.
The latest stand-up comedian from last November’s “Comics to Watch” showcase made his debut on Conan on Tuesday night, and Michael Longfellow regaled us with tales about living in California with an 82-year-old roommate who’s not his grandmother. Roll the clip!
Alex Edelman is enough of an Orthodox Jew that he’s never tried bacon. But as he joked on Tuesday’s Conan, he has tried cocaine. If you think that’s something, just wait until you hear him describe his twin brother. Yes, his twin brother. He’s also worked at a KFC. Not …
Nate Fernald is not much of a motorcycle guy. Probably for the best, then, that he’s a writer on The Late Late Show with James Corden, where he learned Tuesday night that funny T-shirts translate to wide audiences and that impressions need a proper set-up to land. Roll the clip.
Debra DiGiovanni jokes that she looks great for her age not because of botox, but because of food. But as she noted in this performance on Conan, there’s something to be said about catcalling. Mostly because there are plenty of other things that scare Debra. Roll the clip.
Congratulations to Jena Friedman on perhaps becoming the first stand-up comedian to devote a TV performance to the rise of American Nazis and also the scariness of men in general. Fun times! Here’s Friedman from Thursday’s episode of Conan. Roll the clip!
