The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Rhys Darby wasn’t just the ill-suited manager and diplomat for New Zealand’s musical duo Flight of the Conchords on HBO, he’s also a stand-up comedian himself. Darby was in New York City last weekend, and performed Friday night on Late Show with David Letterman. Darby proved why men aren’t necessarily …
Look, nobody will argue that Too Close For Comfort was one of the greatest shows in TV history, let alone a very good sitcom in the early 1980s. But nobody is here to argue that, anyhow. And if Too Close For Comfort had not existed, would any of us have …
Stephen Colbert may have won two Emmy Awards this year, and he was quick to remind us of this on Thursday night’s episode of The Colbert Report. But Colbert has his sights on a new prize, the “crystal vagina” that is the People’s Choice Award. In a segment called “Who …
Shout out to George Wallace for his stand-up performance on Wednesday night’s episode of The Arsenio Hall Show! Wallace — introduced by Arsenio as “Mr. Vegas” — kept it real and kept it topical by referencing the acts before him on the show, as well as audience members. Wallace also …
America the beautiful is so dreamy that we have more food and water than some other countries only can dream of…as Adam Yenser explained on Wednesday night’s Conan. Speaking of excess food, Yenser wonders why Applebee’s menu items sound like types of diarrhea. Just imagine, he could have eaten at …
America’s favorite late-night anti-host with the anti-dote to your do-do dum-dum humdrum lives — ERIC ANDRE — is heading back on tour this week. What’s so special about the Eric Andre Show Live tour, you may ask if you’re reading this sentence aloud? For one thing, if you’re tagging along …
For all the wonder and amazement that goes into the fact that much of Saturday Night Live still happens live on TV on Saturday nights, it’s sometimes even more amazing just how much work in such little time goes into making the pre-taped digital films and completing them in time …
Has Brian Regan really performed 27 times now on Late Show with David Letterman? Or is it 27 times overall, including NBC and CBS late-night spots? Either way, quite an accomplishment. Just keeping count, or maintaining your spot in line, is something, too. As Regan reminds us in this set …
If you thought the timing of casting Kerry Washington as guest host of Saturday Night Live seemed suspicious when you first heard about it a couple of weeks ago, then seeing what happened live on Saturday night on NBC…wow. Just wow. Before you launch into your arguments about how SNL …
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 …
