The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jimmy Fallon’s second show as host of The Tonight Show welcomed Jerry Seinfeld as the first stand-up comedian to perform on it. Seinfeld continues to play it old-school, preferring to do a five-minute stand-up set first before heading over to the couches for a panel interview with the late-night TV …
“Corey Holcomb, doing all the material the other comics wish they could do!” That’s Arsenio Hall’s outro for Holcomb’s stand-up performance that closed out Tuesday’s episode of Arsenio. So if you want to know what Holcomb has to say to all of the “side chicks” out there, please proceed. Roll …
Comedian Ron G. is from the South, so going to church is a multi-day event for his family. Going to Catholic Church with a lady friend is not what he expected after growing up in the Southern Baptist Church, as Ron G. explained on Monday’s Arsenio. “Lunchables for the Lord” …
Dean Edwards performed on the Valentine’s Day episode of Arsenio on Friday night, and explained that he and his wife have issues — not least of which is the fact that she’s British, and also Jamaican. Double the accents, double the trouble? It’s certainly different from the relationship that Jay-Z …
Have you ever seen “a 300-pound black man who giggles like an Asian schoolgirl?” Because that’s how Ron Funches gladly describes himself after giggling during his stand-up performance on Thursday’s Conan. It’s a fun sight, actually. And he’s right to be giggling. A deeper question offered up by Funches, though: …
Legalizing marijuana really has changed the attitudes of the people who smoke pot — not that Erin Foley is one of those people. She doesn’t even smoke, as she told the audience on Tuesday’s Arsenio. Would smoking help her navigate the perfume aisles of Macy’s, however? Fair question to ponder. Roll …
Shopping for sex toys is a lot different now than Jackie Fabulous remembers it. Then again, living in the city isn’t quite as dangerous as her mom thinks it is anymore, either. Such is life, as Fabulous told the audience in this stand-up performance on Arsenio. Roll the clip.
Big night on late-night TV for guys from the North Shore of Boston. While Andover’s Jay Leno was saying goodbye to the Tonight Show, Beverly’s Jimmy Dunn was saying hello in his network television debut as a stand-up comedian on Late Show with David Letterman. Go figure. This might have …
It’s Black History Month. What movie are they showing on the flight you’re taking? DeRay Davis says his airplane service wasn’t quite right, as he explained on his stand-up set on Wednesday’s Arsenio. But he wasn’t going to fight about it. And even if he did, how would he use his …
When is it ever a good time to trot out a pro-drugs message? Not that that’s what Daniel Sloss was trying to do with his performance on Wednesday night’s Conan. Oh, no. Sloss just likes one particular drug, and if you’re up late watching TV, then perhaps it’s the same drug …
