The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Dino Archie showcased this week as a New Face at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, but already taped this performance for Jimmy Kimmel Live which aired on Thursday night. Archie joked about finding TV shows he can watch with his girlfriend without getting ahead of her on Netflix. They eventually settled …
Matthew Broussard has such good hair, he looks like the bad guy in a 1980s movie. “I get it. I’ve seen mirrors.” So Broussard joked on Monday’s Conan that he had joined a support group for people who peaked in high school. Roll the clip.
Jared Logan says living in the South is far cuter than living in New York City. It’s literally the difference between a bunny rabbit hopping across your street, and rats everywhere. Then again, you should see what Logan sees when he and his wife try eating vegan. Or try to …
Cory Kahaney revealed to her audience on Friday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert that she loves being a comedian, because heck, it’s not nearly a hard a job as many other people have — and in citing examples, managed to take swipes at both Trump and Clinton. Kahaney also found …
Jimmy Kimmel challenged Jeffrey Ross to come through his offices for Jimmy Kimmel Live and, needless to say, Ross was more than up for it. He is the Roastmaster General, after all. And if you wanted to know who works for Kimmel, this gives you that opportunity, too. All of …
On Friday’s episode of The Late Show, Bonnie McFarlane compared what it’s like for her own 8-year-old daughter to grow up now compared to life for girls back when McFarlane was one. One thing’s for certain: McFarlane is going to give her daughter a much richer vocabulary. Roll the clip! …
What a master class of a TV stand-up set here, by my friend, Mr. Gary Gulman, on Wednesday’s Conan. Gulman takes the ridiculous notion of a Netflix documentary on the official U.S. Postal Service decision to create two-letter state abbreviations — which isn’t a thing, although it couldn’t dare compare …
Aparna Nancherla returned to Conan the other night, and she has a problem with pills. Well, not so much the pills, but how it looks if you happen to drop them on the floor or street. That’s very problematic. Perhaps she’d be helped by trying a different dating website. Or …
Rhea Butcher has twice as much fun explaining the irony of her last name to audiences, not only because she has been a vegetarian since before she was born, but also because she is a lesbian. Wordplay. You get it. Prophecy fulfilled?! Butcher, in her debut on Thursday’s Conan, also …
Joel Kim Booster made his Conan debut on Wednesday, and explained what it was like growing up as an adopted Korean baby in the Midwest U.S. in the 1980s. For instance: “I knew I was gay before I knew I was Asian.” He also reports that the Midwest sensibilities can be …
