The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome, aka Garfunkel and Oates, performed their song, “The Fade Away,” on Thursday night’s Conan. It’s about how some of their female friends break up with boyfriends via passive aggression. Roll it. Micucci and Lindhome are enjoying their first season playing Garfunkel and Oates on IFC, …
Louie Anderson has a weekly date with Las Vegas, and it’s got him making observations about just how drunk some people can get. “I haven’t been that drunk. I’ve been that full!” Anderson said Tuesday night on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. But yes, please tell him about …
Moody McCarthy may not be directly related to me, but he is one of my neighbors in the funniest neighborhood in NYC, and like me, he’s also willing to joke upfront about how he’s not hip. On this return performance to Late Show with David Letterman on Friday night, McCarthy …
Ted Alexandro returned to The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for another stand-up performance. This time, Alexandro, reflected on what it’s like to have your friends play matchmaker with just about anyone now that he’s 45 and still single. He also now has several Facebook friends who have died. …
Leslie Jones, a stand-up comedian hired last year to the writing staff of Saturday Night Live, dropped by an adjacent 30 Rock studio on Thursday night to perform on Late Night with Seth Meyers. You’ll find out there’s no such thing as an ordinary booty call with Jones, and that …
“So, I was just fired from Saturday Night Live.” How’s that for an opening line to your stand-up comedy set on the TV? But wait. Brooks Wheelan followed up that salvo on Tuesday’s Conan with this: “That’s not even the worst thing that happened to me this summer.” Roll the …
Bonnie McFarlane and her husband, Rich Vos, made an entertaining documentary last year, Women Aren’t Funny. On Thursday night’s Late Show with David Letterman, McFarlane got the chance to prove the opposite is quite true with this set of jokes, plenty of which poke fun at her marriage. There’s lots …
Fresh off his performance a few weeks ago at Montreal’s Just For Laughs as a New Face, fresh-faced Hampton Yount made his stand-up debut on Conan Wednesday night. Yount wonders why local TV news anchors use a very specific type of delivery to introduce some stories, lets us know a …
I don’t know if Cameron Esposito ever considered calling her upcoming stand-up album Zero Penis Summer, but I’m sure Same Sex Symbol has a certain symmetry and family-friendly appeal when merchandising and marketing, too. In this performance from Thursday’s Conan, you’ll also hear Esposito relay a delightful tale about two …
Fresh off his win last Thursday on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the season 8 winner, Rod Man made his debut later that night with a short set on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Corporate synergy! You have some of this already this season during his winning campaign on …
