The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What were the last two weeks of your heterosexuality like? For comedian Brent Sullivan, it involved an unhealthy obsession with female bodybuilders, as he joked in his performance Wednesday on Conan. Sullivan also dished about a new low he felt in therapy, which is perhaps lower than the time he …
Matt Farley has written more than 18,000 songs in the past eight years, but his biggest performance came Tuesday night when Jimmy Fallon took up the “Suggestion Box” offer of a gig by Papa Razzi and the Photogs. So here was Farley performing his song, “Used to be a Pizza …
There’s something so assured, so steady about Tommy Johnagin onstage. The guy’s a joke murderer, with clinical precision, striking time and time again, even if the material seems too “edgy” for a TV audience. Such was the case again Tuesday night, as Johnagin performed on The Late Late Show with …
Dan Naturman returned to Conan on Tuesday night, once more a new uncle, fresh with jokes about how much simpler a job being an uncle is than a father. Especially to just not be bad at it. Naturman also joked about the difference between texting a potential mate and calling …
The Tonight Show under Jimmy Fallon has demonstrated a comforting throwback trend when it comes to stand-up comedy, in allowing or convincing (whatever the case may be) stand-up comedians to actually perform a few minutes onstage proper instead of (but also in addition to) sitting on the panel to chat …
How many stand-up comedians open their sets with operatic singing? Matteo Lane, that’s who. Lane used his vocals to voice his sexuality to his father, as he jokes opening his set Thursday night on Late Night with Seth Meyers. As if you were still questioning him after hearing his voice. …
Noah Gardenswartz‘s biggest week ever kicked off Monday night with an appearance on Conan, where the comedian joked about a subway poet, moving in with his girlfriend, and trying acid for the first time. Gardenswartz has his debut stand-up comedy album coming out this weekend, coinciding with the premiere of …
Mark Normand owns a suit! A nice summer suit at that! I joke because for years, Normand always wore the same lucky track jacket in live shows, stand-up performances on TV, and even his album cover. For his debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, however, he cleaned up …
Stand-up comedian Jeff Dye has done so much television over the past few years since competing on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, I almost didn’t believe it when Jimmy Fallon introduced Dye on The Tonight Show as making his “late-night debut” on Wednesday night’s show. And yet. While you can see …
For his late-night network TV debut, Brendan Eyre showed how you can make a nervous energy work in your favor, as his opening bit on Monday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers brought the crowd into his corner to share his embarrassment at trying and failing to groom his body hair. …
