Mary Mack on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Mary Mack joked about growing up in northern Wisconsin, where they might not have had Spring Break as far as she recalled, but they offered plenty of life lessons.
Jordan Jensen on The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jordan Jensen made her late-night TV debut on Wednesday’s Late Late Show and shared her most NYC experience yet, and what it’s like to be “raised by a pack of lesbians.”
Episode #415: Billy Wayne Davis
Billy Wayne Davis is a comedian who has performed on Conan, Last Comic Standing and Comedy Central, lent his voice and producing skills to SquidBillies, hosted a travel doc for CMT, Morgan Spurlock Presents Freedom! The Movie , opened for Sturgill Simpson, and worked with Sacha Baron Cohen on both Who is …
Comedy News for the week ending Dec. 4, 2022
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Employees of the Month (November 2022): Comedians Mocking Elon Musk on Twitter
Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employees of the Month for November 2022 are the comedians mocking Elon Musk on Twitter. Congrats! NOTE: This is a feature I introduced on my Substack, Piffany, in 2021, and …
Jay Jurden on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jay Jurden made Variety’s Comics to Watch list this year, in part because of his work as a writer/contributor to The Problem With Jon Stewart. Here’s a taste of Jurden’s stand-up, which includes bits about his marriage, and how gay weddings in New York City might wind up with more …
Dan Black on The Late Late Show with James Corden
Dan Black made his late-night TV debut as a stand-up on Thursday’s episode of The Late Late Show, and was amazed to find people who are actually relaxed when he moved from New York to Los Angeles. Black is not into sports like his friends are, but he is a …
Episode #414: Jeff Dunham
Jeff Dunham is undoubtedly the most successful ventriloquist comedian of our lifetime. The 60-year-old from Dallas made his first appearance on The Tonight Show back in 1990, competed in disguise as “Pi-Rat” this fall on The Masked Singer, and in between, he has released 10 comedy specials. Six on Comedy Central starting in …
Gianmarco Soresi on The Late Late Show with James Corden
Gianmarco Soresi made his late-night TV debut on Wednesday’s episode of The Late Late Show, allowing more of us to find out what it must have been like growing up the son of a Jewish mother and an Italian father who had divorced.
Josh Johnson on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert has come back around to the idea of welcoming stand-up comedians to The Late Show in person (they used to tape the stand-up sets separately in groups, then plug them into episodes when necessary or appropriate). On Monday’s show, Johnson joked about noticing things in New York City …