The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Josh Blue, past winner on Last Comic Standing, appeared on Monday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. What’s he been up to since then? Well, for one thing, Blue has a wife and kids. She’s Japanese. They’re a lot of things. Check multiple boxes on your demographic forms. Visiting …
Breaking Bad may have captivated us as an award-winning drama over the past several years, but we’ve also noticed how much Vince Gilligan’s TV series about a dying chemistry teacher who becomes a dangerous meth dealer also owes to comedy. Specifically, to comedians. We haven’t seen the last of Bob …
Jay Larson and fellow comedian Sean Patton are on a journey to find and drink their way through the Best Bars in America for the new Esquire cable channel. You can see that Thursday night. But first, Larson was on Conan on Monday night, where he regaled the audience with …
Theo Von performed on Monday night’s Arsenio and planned to tell jokes, but he’s from New Orleans, Brad Pitt lives sometimes in New Orleans, and sometime recently, Von met Pitt. So he just had to tell us all about it. Roll the clip.
Kevin McCaffrey has contributed monologue jokes to David Letterman and once stood on stage, hosed down by Letterman with a fire extinguisher for a bit on CBS’ Late Show. But Wednesday night’s appearance was special, for it was McCaffrey’s network TV debut as a stand-up comedian on Late Show with …
Adrienne Iapalucci made her late-night TV debut on Friday night’s episode of Late Show with David Letterman. Iapalucci’s darkly dry humor killed with the CBS studio audience, and afterward, Letterman gave Iapalucci and NYC comedy club The Stand a double dose of plugs by having her sit on the couch …
Joe Zimmerman made his late-night network TV debut last night on CBS with Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Zimmerman was a New Face in Montreal this summer, and being busy might make him more tired than ever this year. But it’s great for jokes! I’d say Zimmerman’s career is …
Ty Barnett was back on The Tonight Show this week, and now, he’s reflecting on turning 40 and being a father of two. Forty is still the new 40. And also the old 40. Depending on the darnedest things his kids say. You’ll get it. We’ll all get it. Anybody …
If you saw Bill Cosby on last night’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, then you heard them reminisce about the very recent past — earlier this month, Cos performed on the Stand-Up For Heroes benefit Stewart hosted for Wounded Warriors during the New York Comedy Festival. Cosby being Cosby, …
Carrot Top was headlining shows on the Las Vegas Strip when I launched The Comic’s Comic in Vegas six years ago, and the prop comic born Scott Thompson still is entertaining Vegas crowds today — headlining at the Luxor six nights a week. Here’s the new Luxor promo clip for Carrot …
