The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When was the last time you saw a comedian who’s part Native American and part African American performing on TV? When was the last time you saw a woman of any color performing on The Tonight Show, period? Please allow me to introduce you to Candice Thompson, who made her …
Establishing himself as Conan‘s favorite stand-up comedian with repeated bookings to perform stand-up, Daniel Sloss was back onstage and on TV again Monday night, this time noting that even though he’s a foreigner, he pays more taxes to the U.S. than our current president does. If you think that’s something, …
Billy Wayne Davis grew up in a small town in the South. How small? Davis will tell you in this stand-up performance from Thursday’s all-comedian episode of Conan (the other guests were Andrew Dice Clay and Jen Kirkman). Going back to his hometown, Davis also joked about realizing that some …
Before IFC’s Portlandia, and before NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Fred Armisen showed up on your TV screens in unusual ways and sometimes even without credit. Armisen performed a number of short videos for HBO in the late 1990s, for instance, that ran as interstitials between movies. He’d take one of …
Gary Gulman delivered the best late-night stand-up performance on TV in 2016, and here he is in the first weeks of 2017 with even more from his stellar special, “It’s About Time” (read my review), as he joked on Friday night’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert about the negotiations we …
Jimmy Fallon introduced Nick Thune on Thursday night’s episode of The Tonight Show as one of his favorite comedians, and also reminded viewers that Thune has a new stand-up comedy special (Good Guy) on “NBC’s digital comedy platform,” Seeso.com. And if that wasn’t direct enough for you, Thune also wore …
Gabriel Iglesias got nostalgic while performing on The Late Late Show with James Corden, realizing that CBS also tapes The Price is Right in the same complex of studios. But really get Fluffy going by debating him on Marvel vs. DC Comics, a bit he also performs in his newest …
Becoming an aunt has provided Emily Heller with the proper perspective on both her parents’ capacity for love, as well as her abilities in comparison with her nephew. In Heller’s most recent stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan, she observed why certain children have to be kept on leashes, and how …
Jimmy Kimmel had the chance to see K. Trevor Wilson perform stand-up comedy last summer when Kimmel judged the Roast Battle competition live from Montreal’s Just For Laughs for Comedy Central. Wilson didn’t win that competition, but a slot on Jimmy Kimmel Live to kick off 2017 isn’t a bad …
David Gborie doesn’t want to be a sell-out to all his fellow curvy guys out there, but he still managed to hit all of his marks (eventually) in his late-night comedy debut on Tuesday’s Conan. Gborie wondered about the true meaning of love, as well as making an argument for …
