The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Fun fact about Doug Smith: His great-great-great grandfather was Ulysses S. Grant. Funnier fact about Smith: Monday night was his debut on Conan, and Smith could find ways to poke fun at how he doesn’t measure up to his famous lineage, as well as how his father lost an eye …
Brian Regan returned to The Tonight Show this June to make us question why press conferences only have one set of microphones, why sports fans have to mimic their mascots, and what the proper response was to the Michael Vick case. Roll the clip!
Fortune Feimster joked on Late Night with Seth Meyers that she could use her Southern upbringing and religion to explain her prolonged virginity into her college years. But she said she lived up to whatever cliche stereotype you might have about the “chubby girl” in the group at the nightclub …
Audiences at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert see Paul Mecurio every night, but usually only before the cameras start rolling, since Mecurio is the show’s audience warm-up comedian. On Wednesday night’s episode, though, Colbert booked him to perform during the show, too. So the audience greeted Mecurio with a …
A second season of Jay Leno’s Garage is back on CNBC, so corporate synergy allowed Leno to fill in for his successor Jimmy Fallon during Thursday’s monologue on The Tonight Show. And Leno had plenty of topical jokes at the ready about the two major-party presidential candidates in 2016, Hillary …
Daniel Sloss returned to Conan again — and on Monday night’s show, Sloss wondered how Brits can get condoms for free, but if a woman wants a tampon, she has to pay for it, and then gets taxed upon it as a “luxury item.” And you thought your health-care system …
Tom Papa returned to Conan on Thursday, and said if you really want to be scared about where the world is heading, just think about where all of the adults went. “Everybody’s a baby now.” Adult coloring books? Therapy dogs? Then again, Papa has two daughters, and realizes they’ve begun …
Kenny and Keith Lucas — aka The Lucas Brothers — visited Jimmy Fallon again on Wednesday night to perform on The Tonight Show. This time around, they wondered, if people imagine what life would be like if they were tall enough to play in the NBA, what would NBA players …
Marina Franklin didn’t mean to become a cougar, as they say in dating lingo. But as she explained in her stand-up set on Friday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Franklin couldn’t help it if she’s aged well. She can control what kind of guys she dates, though. And as she …
It’s the end of the world as we know it, but Harland Williams feels fine. As he explained in his stand-up set on Tuesday’s Tonight Show, he’s not about to let North Korea or global warming scare him. Nature, though? Roll the clip and find out!
