The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Conan is a video game for the Xbox 360. CONAN360 is a video app that lets you twirl in and about the stage where Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter and Team Coco film Conan for TBS in Burbank, Calif., seeing it from all 360 degrees. Check it out! You also can …
You cannot ask the crowd how they’re doing and then not let us know the results, Kendrick Lamar? If that’s true, Joe Mande, then which side of the Late Night with Seth Meyers studio audience won the energy wars of Thursday, March 27, 2014? Now if Mande forgets to tell …
Joan Rivers made her Tonight Show debut with Johnny Carson on Feb. 17, 1965. Forty-nine years later to the day, Rivers appeared in the same NBC studio on the debut episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In between, the highs of becoming Carson’s permanent guest host in 1983, …
The American Comedy Awards just added one more category to the mix at the last minute (after voting for everything else had ended March 18 (see above!)), to recognize stand-up comedians who play concert-sized rooms and not just clubs. After culling names from the “Industry Committee” (we each received three …
Which kind of racism is more tolerable do you think: The casual kind or the lazy kind? Hari Kondabolu explores both in this stand-up set on Wednesday night, his first appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. Don’t worry. Kondabolu won’t make you do the math. There is nifty tie-in, …
Bill Cosby rejoined Jimmy Fallon last night in late-night — Cosby frequented Fallon’s Late Night, and just as he did there, the Cos enjoyed taking his sweet time with Fallon making his way to the panel chair on The Tonight Show. Perhaps he knew that Fallon would unleash his Cosby …
Arsenio had a fresh new backdrop for his late-night TV show set, and comedian Tony Rock brought out a freshly customized stand-up comedy set himself, seeing Russell Simmons sitting over there on the couch. It’s all about the real money, which Rock says Simmons has. What can Simmons do about …
Eliza Skinner lives and works in Los Angeles but used to do both of those things in New York City, and as she related on Wednesday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show, New Yorkers have a real open attitude about their distaste for L.A. Skinner also was engaged once …
ABC’s The View dedicated its Tuesday program to “A Day of Comedy.” Take that, Hot Topics! Everybody else take the day off. For an hour, at least, we’re going to sit back in the late morning hour and enjoy some stand-up comedy. Each of The View‘s co-hosts picked a favorite …
Joe Sabia is a NYC-based director and speaker, who has co-hosted and co-curated Boing Boing TV on Virgin America for three years. But for the past year-and-a-half, Sabia has been living in the fictional past of Dunder-Mifflin’s Scranton sales office and cross-referencing all of The Office‘s pop-cultural references. The result: …
