The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Brian Regan logged 28 stand-up comedy performances on Late Show with David Letterman over the years, but now that Letterman is off the air, and Colbert hasn’t introduced stand-up to his program yet, the place for Regan to stop by this week was The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Besides, …
Caleb Synan had a pretty great summer, competing on Last Comic Standing, landing a slot on Montreal’s New Faces, and now making his late-night debut Tuesday night on Conan. Here’s his set, which joked about racism, Ty Cobb, his life and family in Georgia, and watching an old roast on …
It’s no secret that Nate Bargatze is one of Jimmy Fallon’s favorite stand-up comedians right now, as Bargatze made his third appearance on the show Friday in the year-and-a-half since Fallon took over The Tonight Show. For this set, Bargatze had fun with the idea of trying to buy a …
Free hotel continental breakfasts are for everybody, but reading books to children is for nobody but you? I don’t want to give away all of Andrew Sleighter‘s trade secrets. So I’ll let you decide for yourself how much you want to know and when you want to know it, but …
Ian Karmel cannot believe he has the name he has with the look he has, especially since he’s living in Los Angeles now and working as a writer for The Late Late Show with James Corden. “I look more like a giant panda than Ryan Gosling,” he jokes. “I want …
Fresh off of his Last Comic Standing Season 9 win broadcast in primetime Wednesday night, Clayton English began putting that NBC contract and development deal into full promo mode, performing later that night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, then this morning literally being backed into a corner by the …
Marina Franklin was looking good on Monday’s episode of Conan, which as she explained in her stand-up routine, means she’s currently between boyfriends. She has dated white men and black men, and sometimes younger men. But with the latter, she realized her date was too young when a bystander commented …
Sam Morril returned to Conan on Thursday night to deliver a kick-ass set packed with jokes. Should you be quizzed to pick up Claritin-D? Should you quiz anyone on dinosaurs? Can you tell a woman is angry by her facial expression? Why isn’t Magic Johnson the spokesperson for Trojan condoms? Do …
Monroe Martin was a finalist last summer on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and this summer, he cleaned up real nice to perform his first late-night stand-up set proper on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Martin performed on Friday’s night’s “Fallon,” and delivered with a set that included jokes about …
Maggie Maye made her big late-night TV debut on Thursday night’s Conan and crushed it. Maye is based in Austin and grew up in the Rio Grande Valley, where people have called her weird (which is good for “keeping it weird!” in Austin) and sassy, but at least that’s better …
