The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Gad Elmaleh is French Moroccan, but the comedian and actor is fully assimilating into America now, as he demonstrated in this stand-up performance in English on Thursday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. You can hear Elmaleh describe his move to America and learning English and why in …
Dan Levy has a new stand-up special out on Seeso called Lion, in which he learns which animal he acts like in real life. Which may change depending upon how he has to react as a husband and father now. Levy joked about parenting and marriage in Tuesday’s episode of …
Tom Papa has a new stand-up special out on EPIX called Human Mule, but for this performance on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Papa is more content to celebrate all of us, and how difficult it can be for us just to get through the day …
Sam Morril returned to perform again on Conan on Monday night, and if you think his stand-up runs a bit dark, then just remember he’s no Bill Cosby. Also, he’s no Bill Cosby. So there is that, and besides, Morril helps put other things in perspective. Such as what’s a …
Sebastian Maniscalco wonders why it’s now such a big trend for weddings to include choreographed dances, because he couldn’t imagine figuring that out with his buddies for his own wedding. On Thursday’s Conan, Maniscalco also joked that too many people use Facebook to share too much information, when he can …
Alice Wetterlund has fun with her role on the new TBS sitcom, People of Earth, and made plenty of fun faces in her stand-up performance on Monday’s episode of Conan. Wetterlund joked about mothering cats and hating men, not that that’s what feminism is all about, is she right, ladies? …
Kurt Braunohler has waited tables before, because most comedians usually have worked other jobs before making a living full-time in show business, but as Braunohler joked on Monday’s episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, he recently encountered a waitress so bad at her job, she may just …
Iliza Shlesinger performed on The Late Late Show with James Corden, and delivered comedy on something we all can agree on, no matter our politics. A woman will keep applying makeup and changing her hair until her date arrives, no matter how much time that takes and regardless of whether …
Leave it to Dana Gould to help us sort through our feelings as a nation, and to do so by comparing Halloween with Thanksgiving, and noting that love is not something you have to yell out at a rally. “The fact is, I’ve met far too many bald men with …
That moment when your therapist asks you to describe your drinking, and this is the story you call up as an example. This is a scene from Chris Gethard’s one-man show, “Career Suicide,” which he performed on Tuesday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Gethard also sat down with Colbert, where …
