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Jimmy Fallon is getting used to the idea of allowing celebrity guest comedians to “tag in” for his monologues on The Tonight Show. On Wednesday night’s show, Fallon invited Billy Crystal to add several tags on a series of jokes about how old presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton …
Sean Donnelly knows what he looks like, and it’s not the kind of guy who would go halfsies on a gun purchase. Donnelly is the kind of guy, though, who used to work at a Blockbuster and got fired from another job as a doorman, and he’ll explain all of …
Ed Gamble made his American late-night TV debut on Monday’s Conan, so you’re forgiven if you don’t recognize him straight away. Of course, Gamble also lost a bunch of weight after getting diabetes, so he looks different, too. Still sounds British, though! Roll the clip.
Throwback Thursday came early in the midnight hour, as Wayne Federman returned to 30 Rock to perform for Jimmy Fallon. Federman had toured with Fallon back in 2009 when he was writing for Fallon’s Late Night, and now, he’s back as a guest performer on Wednesday night’s episode of The …
Ahmed Bharoocha recently turned 30, but he’s still questioning how ceiling fans work, as well as refrigerator ice machines and dinosaur bones. But he knows at least he has it better than cows do. Fly, Ahmed, fly! Here is his debut set on Conan from Thursday night. Roll the clip.
Back in my day, you knew you made it when you could go on TV and say “Hi Mom!” to the camera. Now the kids have the social media and can make their own Instagrams or Vines to shout out their parents. But Megan Gailey took the concept a step …
Byron Bowers cares more about AppleCare than ObamaCare, but that’s his right as an American to have his priorities straight. As Bowers explained in this performance which aired on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, a lot has changed in America over the years, despite him still being classified as “accident-prone” …
What would you do if the pizza delivery shows up just as your grandmother dies? Do you get a discount on a grandma slice? Only one of these questions does Randy Liedtke answer in his stand-up performance on Tuesday’s Conan. As a bonus, though, Liedtke does let you listen in …
All is well in NBCUniversal! To promote the premiere of Jay Leno’s Garage on CNBC, Jimmy Fallon ceded his own stage during the monologue Tuesday night for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon so Leno could tell a few minutes of jokes about the 2016 presidential campaigns and the state …
Seventeen years ago, Tom Clark was a young aspiring comedian in Milwaukee with ComedySportz who aspired to write for Conan O’Brien. How about telling stand-up on Conan in 2015? Clark will take it! Gladly. Here’s his set from Monday night, in which he jokes about learning what “cholos” mean, and offers up …
