The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Frank Nicotero, the warm-up guy for America’s Got Talent who got into it last year with a contestant auditioning with his signature bit, got to show his original version this past summer — well, almost — on Last Comic Standing. It was a digital extra for a while. Now, on …
Fahim Anwar is not Korean but he lives in Koreatown in Los Angeles, which is unsettling, but mostly because of the thin nature of his apartment walls. What’s going on on the other side of that wall? Anwar joked about that and more on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. …
Jim Gaffigan was a late addition to Wednesday night’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, but Gaffigan had plenty of jokes at the ready. It always helps to sleep with your writing partner. It’s his wife. Don’t worry. Gaffigan will explain it to you, and also let you know that there’s …
Forrest Shaw has grown “taco tits” since moving from Miami to Los Angeles, thanks to all of the food trucks. No thanks to organic food, which is too expensive. As he notes: “Why does organic food cost more? Don’t they do nothing to it?” And yet, as he explains on his …
Paula Poundstone made her final appearance on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Friday night, and before she made one last appeal via puppet show to get Ferguson to stay in late-night TV, she had jokes for us about dealing with her 16-year-old son. Did I mention Poundstone did …
Jeff Dunham showed up with his longtime dummy, Walter, on Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman, and Walter is as curmudgeonly as ever. Because if he weren’t, Walter says Dunham’s ventriloquist show “would really suck.” And then you wouldn’t get to hear these Kardashian jokes, Obama jokes, or why …
Mike Lawrence performed stand-up on Thursday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers as a newlywed, and since his wife works for Sesame Street, that means she can enlist very special guests to make Mike feel guilty when he screws up. At least he’s not working at McDonald’s any longer. Oh, …
Work hard, play hard, joke hard? That seems to be the motto for Allen Strickland Williams, who made his TV debut on Wednesday night’s episode of Conan. Williams is one-fourth of the sketch group WOMEN, but here, he stands alone, telling one-liners. Roll the clip!
Here’s something you haven’t seen in more than 22 years: Jay Leno performing his monologue in the middle of The Tonight Show instead of at the start of it. That’s because 1) Leno is no longer hosting The Tonight Show, and 2) it’s not his monologue, but rather, his stand-up …
Jeff Caldwell wants to lose weight, but buying in bulk outweighs whatever benefits there may be in kale. Caldwell jokes about this and more in his latest appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. Maybe the answer lies in Sweden? Roll the clip.
