The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Gary Owen has a small role in the new Kevin Hart and Ice Cube movie, Ride Along. But on Monday night, Owen had the stage all to himself to perform stand-up on Arsenio. Singing it. Twerking it. Reflecting on performing in Ohio on Election Night when Barack Obama was re-elected …
Adam Hunter was a pothead when he lived in New York. Now that he lives in California, he’s a patient. Hear more of his jokes from Monday night’s return engagement on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Notice his shirt is a slightly deeper shade of blue this year! Roll the …
Dwayne Perkins isn’t old. But as he related to us on Thursday night’s Arsenio, Perkins is old enough now to know that he seems creepy even talking to an 18-year-old woman. There’s a Bell Curve to creepiness, Perkins explains. Where are you on the curve? Don’t break the curve. There’s …
What would Chad Daniels do without his wife? What would he do all on his lonesome, why don’t you ask him. On Thursday night’s Conan, Daniels knows enough about himself to know that he can raise another human being to be at least however old he is. And that leads …
J Chris Newberg has a guitar, and he will use it. He’s not just messing with you. Oh, he’ll let you know when he’s messing with you — and give you helpful tips in case you encounter a bouncer or a police officer and want to, well, mess around. Here …
Lil Duval made his late-night stand-up debut on Tuesday night’s Arsenio, and couldn’t help but have some fun loving the way his host introduced him. Lil Duval, who is single, ladies, also wanted the single ladies to know that they’re all being duped if they’re taking their cues from Beyonce. …
Na’im Lynn performed on Monday night’s episode of Arsenio, but the stand-up comedian knows better than to look this video up on YouTube and read the comments. Not that that’s going to stop him, as he testifies in this new clip. It could be worse, though. He could be hearing …
Hello, internet people, including whoever put a joke about vegans that I wrote on a butcher shop window. I wrote a joke a few years ago and performed it on Conan in 2012. You can see it at around the 4:00 mark in this clip: A while ago, someone took …
Judd Apatow appeared on Thursday’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote Anchorman 2, but host and guest also took a couple of minutes to make it a Throwback Thursday. Way back 30 years, to 1983. When Apatow was in high school and interviewing dozens of comedians for his self-produced …
Smoking will kill you, but it still looks cool and gives you ready-made excuses. Tom Papa knows this and must convey this to all generations, as he did Monday night on Conan. Papa also reminded us of something Groucho Marx once said to a previous generation, about neither wanting nor …
