The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Dylan Sullivan wasn’t always fat, as he related in his late-night debut on Monday’s Lights Out with David Spade. Sullivan joked about his brief dalliance with “hot people things,” and what his life is like now.
In an email to me on Jan. 3, 2020, Chloé Hilliard proclaimed “This is the YEAR of CHLOE!” and she may well be right. Hilliard already kicked off 2020 by releasing her first stand-up comedy album, “Big Dick Energy,” and has followed that up with the publication of her first book, …
Showtime is giving Mo’Nique the stand-up special she’s been seeking. With a catch. It’s Mo’Nique & Friends. Filmed at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, the hour-long special features a variety of talented newcomers including Prince T-Dub, Just Nesh, Tone-X and Correy Bell alongside veteran comedian Donnell Rawlings, and premieres Feb. …
Todd Glass knows where the camera is. Glass knows who he’s playing to. He’s playing to you, people! He’s got other thoughts for you, too. Here’s a snippet from his performance at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club in Las Vegas, as broadcast Wednesday on JKL. Roll it!
Raanan Hershberg has a twin sister. Identical, you may ask, but maybe you shouldn’t ask, as Hershberg joked on The Late Late Show. He also has a Jewish mother who talks to him as if he’s one of her elementary school students. Which sometimes makes sense.
How would you explain the year 2020 to someone from the past? UberEats!? Where are the flying cars? Do Birds count? Fahim Anwar wonders about this and more in this performance on Conan.
Don’t know who Michael Cruz Kayne is or what he’s all about? He’ll fill you in right quick with this debut performance on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Mixed-race, married, with two kids, and this dad’s got jokes.
We’re only two weeks into 2020, and already, the broadcast networks have OK’d more spin-offs for bits from their late-night talk shows. First, NBC announced That’s My Jam, hosted by Jimmy Fallon and based off of the viral segments from Fallon’s Tonight Show in which he raps and/or dances with …
NBC wasted little time trying to make us forget about last week’s Golden Globes by letting us know already that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler would return for a fourth time hosting the Globes come January 2021. Fey and Poehler hosted three consecutive times from 2013-2015, in between turns by …
The Critics Choice Awards bestowed Eddie Murphy with lifetime achievement honors, and here’s what the legendary comedian and actor had to say for himself. “I’ve been making movies, next year will be 40 years (applause, laughter). Al (Pacino) just said, ‘That ain’t shit.’ (laughter) But I’ve been doing it for …
