The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tone Bell is happy to have a job. You’ve seen him recently on the second season of NBC’s Whitney, and even more recently on Thursday night’s episode of Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS. But in this stand-up clip, Bell jokes about how he’s not as rich and …
Shane Mauss returned to Conan last night, and got a little political in his stand-up. If, by political, you mean finding funny ways to explain why his racist coworkers don’t understand why having Mexicans speak English is even worse for said racists, and why as a straight man, he’d be …
This clip of Dov Davidoff from last night’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno is as much fun to watch for what he does as it is for what he says. How Davidoff makes use of the entire stage, how he takes off his jacket midway through his set, how he …
You may recognize Retta as Donna from NBC’s Parks and Recreation. But you better Retta recognize her as a stand-up comedian, too — she performed last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. And even Retta can recognize her own faults in succumbing to modern-day racism and road rage. It’s …
Myq Kaplan returned for another performance last night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. It was Kaplan’s second appearance on the show this month, taped earlier in April when he originally was scheduled to tell jokes but bumped from that night’s telecast due to time constraints. Ferguson’s, not Kaplan’s. …
Bengt Washburn performed on Conan last night. But a few years ago, Washburn’s comedy career was on hold. With a wife in the Air Force, the 2001 winner of the San Francisco Comedy Competition left comedy and American gigs behind to join her in Germany when the military transferred her …
With all of the renewed talk about the shuffling of late-night TV hosts, can you believe it has been 20 years since a then-unknown Conan O’Brien auditioned for NBC’s Late Night franchise? Team Coco released a snippet of video from that day’s taping — April 13, 1993 — in Burbank, …
Pete Lee made his debut last night on Late Show with Dqvid Letterman. Lee, who appears weekly on the new version of VH1’s Best Week Ever and just shared his tips with The Comic’s Comic on entering and winning stand-up comedy competitions, poked fun at himself for his name, his …
Nate Bargatze returned to perform on Conan again on Monday night, but some friends and family also joined him on the TBS stage in story form. So congrats to Luis J. Gomez for his first de facto late-night TV appearance? Wait. Does it count if you’re mentioned as falling victim …
Ross Bennett made his network television debut over the weekend on Late Show with David Letterman. Bennett joked about how the New York he grew up in differs just a little bit from the New York City he’s in now. But his feelings upon finding a parking space in Manhattan …
