The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tom Cotter returned to Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for another stand-up set on Wednesday night’s show. This time around, Cotter talked up how stand-up comedy is a dream job, mostly when compared to all of the other jobs out there. Like your job, for example. Are you working? …
Mike Wysocki is a stand-up comedian from Pittsburgh who usually spends his mornings sharing his opinions on the local radio around the Three Rivers airwaves on WDVE-FM (102.5), but he had to make a run for the border to earn his big late-night TV break last night on Arsenio. I listened …
Mike Epps performed on Monday night’s episode of Arsenio, and good thing they waited a couple of days after Billy Ray Cyrus was on the show, because Epps had some jokes to say about watching Miley Cyrus onstage with her “chicken cutlets” hanging out and bouncing about. A far cry …
Dave Stone made his network TV debut over the weekend on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Stone had food on the brain. And in his stomach. Stone also has jokes about working with a comedian with very specific jokes about hunting. Very specific. Roll the clip! Stone was a …
Have you ever asked someone “How are you?” only to immediately regret finding out the answer? Erin Foley feels your pain. In this stand-up performance on Thursday night’s Conan on TBS, Foley also fills you in on how she’s doing, which includes a lot of fun or not-so-fun facts about …
Iliza Shlesinger is single, fellas, but before you ask her out, know that she’s already preparing to break up with you. On Wednesday night’s Arsenio, Shlesinger shared one such saga. She’s still my candy crush. You can check out Iliza Shlesinger’s new stand-up special, War Paint, on Netflix. Roll the …
You may remember this next comedian from the 1990s. That’s not what Arsenio Hall said, exactly, when introducing stand-up comedian John Henton to his show on Monday night, but he might as well have, telling audience members they knew Henton from his roles on Living Single (1993-1998) and The Hughleys …
Did you know that Phil Palisoul won the 2013 Great American Comedy Festival competition this summer in Nebraska? Fun fact. Palisoul’s good fortunes continued into early fall, as he got to perform last week on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. His set includes one of the gosh darned funniest …
Kathleen Madigan learned more about her parents during a recent two-week visit with them in the Midwest, and she shared her findings on Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman. For one thing, Madigan is amazed at the U.S. Postal Service for raising the price of stamps — but not for …
Louie Anderson made a big Splash this summer on that ABC diving competition series. But you know, Anderson’s relationship with Arsenio Hall goes way back. He played the fast-food employee at the McDonald’s rip-off joint, McDowell’s, in Queens where he met the characters played by Hall and Eddie Murphy in …
