The Definitive Guide to Comedy
D.J. Demers was back on Conan on Thursday night, but now the Canadian has gone American. He’s still hearing impaired, but he’s all ours now. When he takes his hearing aids out, that abruptly changes his relationship with his girlfriend and everyone around him. Roll the clip.
FOX has used recent summers to test out shows for potential syndication in both daytime and late-night, with The Wendy Williams Show and Page Six TV being the most notable success stories so far. In between, Real Housewives of New York‘s Bethenny Frankel also earned a talk show this way, …
Episode #6 of my exclusive Laughly audio series, On Second Thought, is out now with featured guest Liam McEneaney. On Second Thought asks: If tragedy plus time equals comedy, then comedy plus time equals what now? Liam McEneaney hosted one of the more popular alternative basement comedy rooms in New York City …
I’ll get into all of this in detail later, but for now, just the facts, ma’am. Here are your nominees in the comedy categories for the 69th annual Emmy Awards, to be handed out live Sept. 17, 2017, on CBS. Full list here Comedy Series Atlanta (FX) black-ish (ABC) Master of …
If you haven’t yet read The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy, then what kind of comedy nerd are you, anyhow? Kliph Nesteroff’s book gives you an overview of our nation’s comedy scene with extra peeks into the naughtiest, weirdest nooks and crannies of it. But …
Everything Jackie Kashian knew about relationships before getting married, she’d learned from being in stand-up comedy, and as she told the Conan audience on Wednesday night, that boils down to only three stereotypical jokes. Fortunately for Kashian and for us, she knows how to roll with anything, and role play …
Conan O’Brien and Team Coco head to San Diego for their third straight trip to Comic-Con International, and Conan has announced its guest list for next week’s episodes there. CONAN‘s Comic-Con® International shows will be taped at San Diego’s historic Spreckels Theatre on Wednesday, July 19 – Saturday, July 22. Episodes will air …
“It was 2007, and at this point, the Internet was basically just a place for perverts to talk dirty to each other,” says writer/director Adam McKay. “It was rubble,” added comedy star Will Ferrell. “It was just a vast field of rubble.” Enter Saturday Night Live alums McKay and Ferrell, …
Harrison Greenbaum told the America’s Got Talent judges before his audition that this was his “make or break moment.” And then the comedian, who actually began his career as a magician, launched into a bit about coming out as a stand-up to his parents, and how they and everyone else …
With Jordan Klepper jumping ship to launch his own late-night show on Comedy Central, as Stephen Colbert had done before him, there’s a slot open on The Daily Show for that snarky know-it-all white guy correspondent. Comedy Central has found him in Michael Kosta! Kosta will make his debut tonight with …
