The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Everything Jackie Kashian knew about relationships before getting married, she’d learned from being in stand-up comedy, and as she told the Conan audience on Wednesday night, that boils down to only three stereotypical jokes. Fortunately for Kashian and for us, she knows how to roll with anything, and role play …
How many people can say they interned on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and then performed stand-up on the show two years later? Ali Kolbert can! The 23-year-old made her TV debut on Friday night’s show, then reminisced with Fallon on panel about her days as an intern. Which …
You wouldn’t know by looking at Chris Charpentier on the TV, but the comedian is 34 years old and stands 5-foot-5. And oh, yes, he will joke about both of those things in his set from earlier this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live. But there’s more to his story. Roll …
James Acaster has put on one of the top shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival each of the past five years, according to the folks who hand out those awards each August. But the Brit had never performed stand-up proper on American TV until Tuesday night’s Conan, where he shared …
Nikki Glaser returned to The Tonight Show on Friday night, and we learned about her two dogs and BOGO, although she didn’t tell us if that’s how she got her dogs, as well as a taste of her stellar Jen Aniston impersonation. Roll the clip!
I trust you shall enjoy this new performance by Keith Alberstadt on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Even if you’re not ready to explore new baby names just yet, or guess what Alberstadt wants to name his first child with his new wife. If they have children. Roll the …
Tom Papa returned to perform again on Conan, and he wants us all to shut up about how fat we’re getting because all of us have gotten fat, and there’s no turning back. No TV makeover show can make us feel better than we already should feel. It’s OK! Roll …
Louie Anderson won an Emmy Award last year for his role as Zach Galifianakis’s mother on FX’s Baskets, but here on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Anderson joked about trying to sit down for a meal with someone who’s decidedly more healthy. Roll the clip.
Laurie Kilmartin’s new stand-up album is filled with jokes about her dead dad, as you can see from the title or just listen to find out for yourself. But for her most recent performance on Conan, Kilmartin wanted to crack fun at raising her son as a single mom, and …
Mark Normand has a great new hour of stand-up available through Comedy Central called “Don’t Be Yourself,” and yet back again on Conan, Normand is letting us know what he thinks and how he feels about babies, transgender bathrooms, racism and relationships. Roll the clip!
