The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Who’s got jokes? Kelly Walker, who goes by K-Dubb, has jokes. He did when he was first on Who’s Got Jokes? years ago, and the young man with the old growl of a voice made his network late-night debut Thursday night on Arsenio, joking about an argument he got into …
Camille Solari told jokes for two on Wednesday’s episode of Arsenio. Which not only puts off hecklers, but makes everyone else nicer to her. It also explains her outfit. Sort of. I’ll let her try to explain the Taco Bell fixation. Roll the clip.
When I was 20, I was in college and still unsure of what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Pete Davidson at 20 has dropped out of college to pursue stand-up comedy, and he already has a gig on MTV2’s Guy Code, a role on a …
Team Coco brought out the big guns for night one in Dallas, with favored stand-up comedian Tig Notaro gracing the big theater stage for Monday’s Conan. Notaro gives us much-needed perspective on fire trucks, diarrhea in the public pool, and how joking about your breasts might lead to breast cancer. …
You cannot ask the crowd how they’re doing and then not let us know the results, Kendrick Lamar? If that’s true, Joe Mande, then which side of the Late Night with Seth Meyers studio audience won the energy wars of Thursday, March 27, 2014? Now if Mande forgets to tell …
Joan Rivers made her Tonight Show debut with Johnny Carson on Feb. 17, 1965. Forty-nine years later to the day, Rivers appeared in the same NBC studio on the debut episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In between, the highs of becoming Carson’s permanent guest host in 1983, …
Which kind of racism is more tolerable do you think: The casual kind or the lazy kind? Hari Kondabolu explores both in this stand-up set on Wednesday night, his first appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. Don’t worry. Kondabolu won’t make you do the math. There is nifty tie-in, …
Arsenio had a fresh new backdrop for his late-night TV show set, and comedian Tony Rock brought out a freshly customized stand-up comedy set himself, seeing Russell Simmons sitting over there on the couch. It’s all about the real money, which Rock says Simmons has. What can Simmons do about …
Eliza Skinner lives and works in Los Angeles but used to do both of those things in New York City, and as she related on Wednesday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show, New Yorkers have a real open attitude about their distaste for L.A. Skinner also was engaged once …
Todd Barry returned to Conan on Monday night to perform stand-up and opened with some prepared material about a certain Walgreens in Chicago that deserves recognition. Even now. Even. Now. Then Barry took to the panel, where he talked with Conan O’Brien about his new crowd work special (produced and …
