The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Starting Oct. 1, 2019, and lasting only for that month, SiriusXM is launching The Johnny Carson Channel on SiriusXM Channel 105, featuring the top, handpicked episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Back in Carson’s day, a spot on his show could make or break a stand-up comedian. And Carson …
For his next act, former U.S. Sen. and former Saturday Night Live writer and performer Al Franken is back in front of a microphone. Franken will host a weekly radio show starting this Saturday on SiriusXM. The Al Franken Show will air at 10 a.m. Eastern every Saturday on SiriusXM Progress …
Gavin Matts moved from Canada to the United States, but the real puzzle for this comedian was figuring out what to do without wifi for 30 days. Roll the clip.
Anna Drezen is not like other girls, despite what her own mother might think. This Saturday Night Live writer also joked on The Late Late Show about dealing with men on dating apps, and going to social events sober. Roll the clip.
We knew critics loved Fleabag. We loved Fleabag. Now we know the Emmy Awards voters did, too, bestowing four Emmys this year to the British comedy series (broadcast in the States on Amazon Prime Video) and star/creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Fleabag won for Outstanding Comedy Series, besting Veep’s farewell; same went …
“The phone is just the new booze!” Mark Normand joked about how our phone addiction is problematic in ways we may not have realized yet, in this performance on The Tonight Show. Good thing I never got into White Claw. Roll the clip!
Kevin Camia made his network TV debut on The Late Show this week, and joked about turning Filipino stereotypes around, as well as the indignities of sitting in third-chair in your grade-school band. Roll the clip.
I first saw Andrew Orolfo this summer in San Francisco at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest. Funny stuff! Now you all can see him courtesy of his performance this week on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Man bun and all. Roll the clip!
Did you know that David Spade’s new late-night show on Comedy Central also is spotlighting new stand-up comedians? For the second time that I’ve seen so far in the show’s two-month run, Spade gifted several minutes of Lights Out to a newer comic. Here’s a tight set from Brian Simpson. …
Ryan Niemiller said five years ago, someone who looked like him couldn’t have gotten on TV. This summer, Niemiller won over the judges and most of the crowds on America’s Got Talent, finishing the season in third place. He follows a long line of stand-up comedians to make the finals, …
