The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Lewis Black‘s latest stand-up special, Old Yeller: Live at the Borgata, made its cable-TV debut Friday night on EpixHD. If you don’t have that channel, then you could see Black on broadcast network TV last night, too, as he delivered stand-up on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. How much …
Carmen Lynch has two tiny roommates. Or she’s a comedy giant. Depends upon your perspective, really. For her return performance on Friday’s Late Show with David Letterman, Lynch joked about doctors, ex-boyfriends and her parents, who have more time for her now that they’ve retired. Lynch has big goals for …
Michael Blackson bills himself as “The African King of Comedy.” You got a problem with that, Modasucka? Blackson performed stand-up on Friday’s episode of Arsenio, and let us know that Compton has a new visitor. Please do not call him a booty-scratcher or anything that refers to the darkness of …
If you want to know what’s really going on with Katt Williams, don’t try believing whatever the tabloid magazines or gossip sites mislead you into thinking, especially when you can go straight to the source. Thank goodness for Arsenio Hall. Having Arsenio back on late-night TV provides a place where …
Now you might be asking yourself: If Phil Hanley is a stand-up comedian, then why is a woman standing next to him, as they’re both holding scripts of some sort? Good question! On Hanley’s appearance on Thursday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show, he asked a woman from the …
When is the last time you remember seeing Jimmie Walker do stand-up comedy on the TV? If you remember Jimmie J.J. Walker, then Dy-N0-Mite! Good times. Good Times! Walker performed Tuesday on Arsenio, and noted that he’ll have to change his racial profile now that Latinos have become the dominant …
If there’s Throwback Thursday and Flashback Friday, what does it mean when two comedians get old-school nostalgic on a Monday night? I don’t know, but that didn’t stop Ray Romano and Arsenio Hall from taking to the mics — standing side-by-side on Monday night’s episode of Arsenio — to trade …
Cristela Alonzo returned to Conan on Monday, and joked about living on a Texas border town with Mexico, which meant she grew up as a Dallas Cowboys fan. Which used to mean something when everyone called the Cowboys “America’s Team.” But for the past two decades, what have they done …
Gary Gulman has a way of hitting my comedy sweet spot every time, what with his pop-cultural references and combining the high, low and middlebrows with his six-foot-everything observations on life as it is now and how it was when we were younger. In Gulman’s performance on Thursday night’s Late …
Earthquake, the comedian not the tectonic shift of plates underground, is 50 years old now, and on Wednesday night’s Arsenio, he joked about how dating has changed since he was a younger single man. Take that, Fantasia. Don’t take that, Precious. Earthquake ain’t afraid of a “little ugly.” This could …
