The Definitive Guide to Comedy
How many stand-up comedians would have their credit on network TV be a weekly showcase in a distillery in Williamsburg? That’s how Jimmy Kimmel introduced Charles Gould on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! Gould, a New Face this summer at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, joked about how his therapist would …
Jo Koy enjoys talking about his son in his stand-up, but now that his son is 14, their relationship just isn’t the same anymore. Koy explained in this performance Friday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Roll the clip.
You may remember Drew Lynch from his performances a couple of summers ago on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, where he made it to the finals before finishing runner-up to ventriloquist Paul Zerdin. Lynch made his Conan debut last night, and let us know that audiences still cannot believe he stutters, so …
Casey James Salengo has his first half-hour coming out this fall on Comedy Central, but he made his network TV debut last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Salengo joked about growing up as “white trash” and what that really means, and trying to make sense of Bumble. Roll the clip.
Maz Jobrani has a new Netflix special coming out next week, and he teased a bit of it Tuesday night on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Jobrani’s parents didn’t come to his school events when he was young, which in retrospect was a good thing, because they were …
The same day that President Trump announced on Twitter that he’d ban the tens of thousands of active military members who are transgender from continuing to serve, Jimmy Fallon didn’t know quite what to say in his monologue for The Tonight Show. So he asked transgender comedian Patti Harrison to …
Ahamed Weinberg made his network debut Tuesday night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, and he let us all know what it’s like to grow up white and Muslim, versus what it’s like for his parents, who both converted to the religion. If you think old people are scared of …
Jimmy Fallon’s favorite stand-up comedian made another appearance on The Tonight Show Friday night, and this time around, Nate Bargatze relayed to us the story of his distant ancestor, “Two Thumbs” Bargatze, and the dilemma he faces with baristas when he tries to place a seemingly simple coffee order. Roll …
If you tuned in Tuesday night to see Matteo Lane make his debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, you missed him, because he got bumped to Wednesday. But the wait was worth it. Lane joked about the very nature of pharmacy school, and how finding a gay man …
D.J. Demers was back on Conan on Thursday night, but now the Canadian has gone American. He’s still hearing impaired, but he’s all ours now. When he takes his hearing aids out, that abruptly changes his relationship with his girlfriend and everyone around him. Roll the clip.
