The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Dustin Nickerson returned to The Late Late Show this week, this time joking about putting his daughter into therapy to become a more progressive modern parent, which is not something that was available to him as a boy. He also reminded us why you cannot be a tough kid when …
Millions of people recognize Scott Rogowsky as the original host of HQ Trivia, the daily live trivia app that became massively popular in 2017 before fizzling out in 2019. CNN looked back on that phase of Rogowsky’s life in the 2023 documentary,Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia. But …
The Late Late Show is in its final weeks with James Corden as host, and Corden’s version of the show has always allowed some more wiggle room for their writers to play with the format. Especially letting writers do stand-up in various gimmicks and characters. Here’s band leader Reggie Watts …
What do you mean The Friars Club has closed for good, again?! Sad but true news about the once-legendary second home for funny people, plus happier news about Adam Sandler accepting the Mark Twain Prize in an all-star tribute on CNN, finally some guest-hosting dates for the correspondents on The …
Orion Levine made his network TV debut on The Late Late Show, joking about driving a brand-new Prius across America, trying to block his mom on Instagram, and how one moment can lead to a nickname for a lifetime.
Preacher Lawson, a staple of America’s Got Talent, celebrated his birthday in March with a visit back to The Tonight Show.
Tara Schuster was a 25-year-old working at Comedy Central who’d worked her way up from interning at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to curating Jokes dot com when she hit an emotional rock bottom. She then began learning how to reparent herself, which she turned into her first book, …
Who knows why the WWE waited until now to induct the late great comedian Andy Kaufman into their Wrestling Hall of Fame, but it’s happening at the end of this month! News on that, plus Maximum Fun podcasting network is becoming a co-op; the Writers Guild of America is preparing …
One Dan Levy’s dad is Eugene. This Dan Levy is not him, but this Dan Levy went on tour with John Mulaney (they go way back), and performed jokes on Wednesday’s Late Late Show, joking about gossip and Clare’s. But does he have the hot goss on Clare’s, perchance?
Nore Davis returned to The Tonight Show on Wednesday to joke about how his sleeping habits changed when he turned 30, and how it feels like Baby Boomers are playing Monopoly while the younger generations are playing Trouble.
