The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Safety first! That’s the message behind the jokes that began Sheng Wang‘s set on Thursday night’s episode of Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FXX. And talk about topical: Rats were in the news in Thursday’s tabloid newspapers, and in Wang’s jokes, too! Oh, also the latest takes on …
I love Arsenio because I’m never quite sure if I’m watching it in 2013 or 1993 because this version of The Arsenio Hall Show somehow manages to exist in both years simultaneously. On Wednesday night’s show, guest Naya Rivera reminded us that she was on the earlier version of Arsenio …
Sam Simmons put on one of the more gleeful and dizzyingly giddy one-man shows I’ve seen at Montreal’s Just For Laughs. Naturally, Simmons also is one of those Australian comedians who made a name for himself in the U.K. before putting himself before American audiences now. Then again, nature abhors …
Nick Cobb performed on Friday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Cobb fills us in on an inexpensive alternative to therapy, thoughts on destination weddings, online passwords, and dealing with your parents on Facebook. Roll the clip!
“You asked for it! You asked for it.” It didn’t take that much asking, begging or pleading from Arsenio Hall last night to coax Andrew “Dice” Clay to bring the “Diceman” back over to the stand-up mic during their panel discussion on last night’s Arsenio. Dice just turned 56; Arsenio …
You’re not the only person to have noticed over the years that late-night TV comedy/talk shows are predominately written by and starring white men. NBCUniversal — which includes The Tonight Show (with Jay Leno current edition; Jimmy Fallon as of February 2014), Late Night (with Fallon; soon to be with …
Aparna Nancherla is a writer/performer on FXX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, but on Monday night, she had the night off from her day job so she could perform her night job on another late-night TV talk show on another network. You dig? You dig. Nancherla was on Conan. …
Simon Amstell is a young chap from the U.K. on his own on the road and at home. And despite his youth, he has some honestly dark and amusing insight into a life lived in isolation. No rules! Perhaps there should be some rules. Or at least one rule. Failing …
Brian McKim, aka “The Male Half” of Shecky Magazine, performed on Friday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. For this set, McKim proved he’s still bringing the laughs per minute 25 years after he first decided to do so for a living. Jokes, jokes, jokes. Do you suppose “The …
Chris Spencer and his wife were fortunate enough to visit the White House and meet President Barack Obama. Seems like Mrs. Spencer got more out of the meeting than Chris did, however. Or should I call them the Kings? Spencer explained in this stand-up performance on last night’s episode of …
