The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Ian Lara has his own stand-up special premiering Nov. 11, 2022, on HBO Max, but first, he got to tell jokes on The Tonight Show, celebrating “dating season” and warning men that breaking up with women these days just leads to them leading their best lives, immediately. Lara lost his …
It has been a while since you saw Stephen Colbert onstage while a stand-up comedian performed on The Late Show. Normally, they’ve filmed stand-ups in separate bunches for a separate audience, then stitched each comedian into an episode when they could schedule them. But Paul Mecurio isn’t any comedian. He’s …
Greg Stone made his late-night TV debut on Thursday’s Late Late Show, and joked about becoming a father for the first time, and finding out his wife went into labor while he was onstage.
Sabrina Wu made their Tonight Show debut on Wednesday, which sounds great until you realize whom Sabrina has felt in competition with over the past six-plus years. In the meantime, Wu joked about having to come out twice to their immigrant father, trying to impress white people, and showing off …
Jamali Maddix is an English comedian who made his American TV debut on The Late Late Show, and the 31-year-old joked about how he looks like anything other than English to people who hate people who look like him; about going to therapy and hearing the juiciest gossip. That’s not …
Colum Tyrrell is an Irish comedian who’s been based in America since 2014, and on Monday night, he made his American TV debut on The Tonight Show! Tyrrell joked about why Game of Thrones really chose to film in his homeland, dating an American woman, and wondering how he’s supposed …
Sean Jordan made his late-night TV debut as a stand-up on The Late Late Show, where his podcast co-host on “All Fantasy Everything” just so happens to be Ian Karmel, sidekick and head writer James Corden. Talk about social networks! Anyhow. Jordan joked about becoming a father and all the …
Michael Rowland made his late-night TV debut this week on The Tonight Show, and the comedian joked about his friend’s habit of “people watching” perhaps isn’t as good of a habit once you think about it for a minute. Is it better or worse than watching Sex and the City …
Caitlin Peluffo performed on Thursday’s Late Late Show, joking about moving in with her boyfriend, having a practical body type, and why that’s more practical than the tiny girls some men prefer. And yet surviving a pandemic with a younger boyfriend wasn’t quite the party she was expecting.
Viewers voted to save ventriloquist Celia Munoz a spot in the finals for America’s Got Talent in 2022. She had a few tricks still up her sleeves for this performance, set in a seance. Munoz won Spain’s Got Talent last year. Could she go 2-for-2 here?
