Katie Hannigan on The Late Late Show with James Corden
Katie Hannigan joked on The Late Late Show about moving in with her boyfriend, and how they fight over what to watch on the TV, as well as some other jokes at his expense.
Sam Morrison on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Sam Morrison and his glucose monitor performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Morrison is currently running his one-man show Off-Broadway at SoHo Playhouse in NYC, billed as “an outrageous journey of love, loss, diabetes, seagull attacks, and a few extraordinary coincidences.”
Comedy News For Jan. 16-22, 2023
So many Santos impersonations, Craig Ferguson is coming back to late-night?, #RIP Michael Lehrer, last week’s roundup of new comedy specials and late-night sets, and a shameless plug! All in this week’s dispatch From The Comic’s Comic, delivered straight to your email inbox if you subscribe to my Substack, Piffany.
Fabrizio Copano on The Late Late Show with James Corden
Fabrizio Copano made his late-night TV debut last night on The Late Late Show, and he joked about how an actual friend of his has just become the president of Chile. Copano wasn’t doing so bad for himself in Chile, either, before coming to America. Millennials, am I right?!
Fahim Anwar on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Fahim Anwar made his Tonight Show debut last night, and implores airline passengers to wait even just a couple of seconds after landing before leaping out of their seats. Anwar has more observations about air travel, as well as how to behave on the dance floor. Here’s a link to …
Mike E. Winfield Earns Golden Buzzer on America’s Got Talent: All-Stars
Mike E. Winfield made the finals last summer in Season 17 of America’s Got Talent, and Simon Cowell wanted to make sure we saw Winfield in the finals of AGT: All-Stars, so Cowell gave the comedian his first-ever “Golden Buzzer” EZ-Pass straight to the grand finale! Congrats Mike!
10 Years of “This Is Fine” and comedy news Jan. 9-16, 2023
Did you know this cartoon of a dog about to be engulfed in flames is now a 10-year-old meme? More on that (with reflections from the cartoonist), plus the Golden Globes, TCAs, WGA nominations, SXSW film announcements, two more bad sad men in comedy, Louis CK sold out MSG (!), …
Ralph Barbosa on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Ralph Barbosa made his late-night TV debut Thursday on The Tonight Show, and joked about living at her grandmother’s and what it’s like now having his own apartment. Barbosa is also a father now, and it sounds like he’s learning as much as he’s teaching his son! Barbosa does have …
Jenny Zigrino on The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jenny Zigrino went on The Late Late Show this week to joke about deleting her dating apps for New Year’s, and how the advice she received in her 20s doesn’t quite work so well for her in her 30s. Jenny was on my podcast back in 2021. For more on …
The Daily Show announces first guest hosts for 2023, and more
Check out the first five weeks of guest hosts for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, kicking off next Tuesday with Leslie Jones, and continuing with Wanda Sykes, D.L. Hughley, Chelsea Handler, and Sarah Silverman. More details on that, plus all of the first 10 days of comedy industry news and …