Jo Firestone on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jo Firestone will let you know all about movies and soup, and the perfect time of the day for her, all in this delightful performance from Friday’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Samantha Ruddy on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Samantha Ruddy isn’t so sure about whether she wants to have kids, but she knows she doesn’t want to date one. That and other observations in Ruddy’s late-night TV debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Kellen Erskine on Jimmy Kimmel Live
You can see Kellen Erskine on the Amazon Prime Video series Inside Jokes. Here, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Erskine demonstrates how Siri makes his jokes better. Or just weirder. Roll the clip!
Adam Newman on The Late Late Show with James Corden
Adam Newman is single and 36, and not terribly happy about it, or how he looks at himself in the mirror. Thankfully, that’s all great for comedy. Roll the clip!
Cedric The Entertainer entertaining first First & Goal Comedy Bowl special
Lots of folks converge on whichever city hosts the Super Bowl. This year, Cedric the Entertainer is going to entertain those masses and film it for his first of what’s expected to become an annual even: The 1st & Goal Comedy Bowl. It’ll take place Feb. 1, 2019, the Friday …
Amazon finally gets into the original stand-up comedy special business, starting with Jim Gaffigan
Amazon announced today it will launch Jim Gaffigan’s seventh stand-up special, Quality Time, as its first original stand-up comedy special for Prime Video, to premiere later in 2019. Gaffigan is up for a Grammy for last year’s special, Noble Ape, which premiered everywhere but Netflix. Quality Time will be recorded live at the …
National Comedy Center acquires Ernie Kovacs archives
Ernie Kovacs would have turned 100 yesterday (the comedy legend died in 1962 at the age of 42), and to celebrate, The National Comedy Center announced the acquisition and display of never-before-seen material and rare artifacts courtesy of the comedian’s estate. The collection includes notes and sketches in Kovacs’ own …
Lucas Bros. show transformed into impromptu memorial fundraiser for the late Kevin Barnett: The Bird Luger Extravaganza
This Friday night’s show by The Lucas Brothers at The Bell House in Brooklyn now will be an all-star tribute and fundraiser for the late Kevin Barnett. Barnett died suddenly this week while vacationing in Mexico. He was only 32. Barnett co-starred and co-wrote Friends of The People with The …
R.I.P. Kevin Barnett, true “Friends of the People”
Kevin Barnett was as friendly as he was funny. And he was so much of both, so much so his comedy cohorts probably named themselves Friends of the People because of him. This tall kid from South Florida, who graduated from Florida State in 2009, and two years later, already …
Tom Cotter and Samuel J. Comroe performed on America’s Got Talent: The Champions
Former America’s Got Talent finalists Tom Cotter and Samuel J. Comroe both returned for this season’s all-star champions competition. Cotter, facing Simon Cowell for the first time (Cowell wasn’t a judge when Cotter finished runner-up in season 7), got buzzed during his act. That surprised everybody in the theater, but …