The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The beauty of Saturday Night Live remains right there in its title. No matter how much funnier and slicker the pre-taped sketch videos for SNL may be in any given week, and there have been more of them in the past year, too — the things that can happen or …
I’ve been a fan of Hannibal Buress since he was only known as Chicago’s top up-and-coming stand-up comedian, back when he was selling T-shirts for his kicking pigeons joke and wondering who the next big blind guy would be. The rest of the nation has caught on to how funny …
Asking who your favorite comedian is always feels like a trick question to me. Do you mean of all-time or right now? What answer are you hoping I give? It feels like only a slightly less cruel joke than asking me to actually tell you a joke. When I left …
Conan is a video game for the Xbox 360. CONAN360 is a video app that lets you twirl in and about the stage where Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter and Team Coco film Conan for TBS in Burbank, Calif., seeing it from all 360 degrees. Check it out! You also can …
Dave Chappelle set ticket-sales records last July at Just For Laughs in Montreal, then crossed the United States in a rollercoaster of an outdoor arena tour that put the oddballs in Oddball Fest. North America went crazy for Chappelle. As did Australia. For almost a decade, though, the only time …
Nick Kroll has made fun of Canada plenty before on Comedy Central’s Kroll Show (see Wheels Ontario; Show Us Your Songs, Toronto), but this time he’s taken the nation up north’s ultimate trophy and playing keep away with it. Kroll posted this photo last week of himself in his New …
Forget about that Scandinavian “Orbit Girl” with the bright-eyed, brighter-toothed catchphrase to “clean it up” in your mouth. In 2014, you can be naughty and still break up with bad breath. If you’re comedian Sarah Silverman, who debuted as the new spokeswoman for Orbit Gum this month in a new …
Seth Meyers tells NBC viewers each weeknight to stay tuned for Carson Daly’s even later overnight show, but what really happens at the end of Late Night with Seth Meyers? This cute video imagines how quickly and how radically the inmates take over the asylum that is the Late Night …
You cannot ask the crowd how they’re doing and then not let us know the results, Kendrick Lamar? If that’s true, Joe Mande, then which side of the Late Night with Seth Meyers studio audience won the energy wars of Thursday, March 27, 2014? Now if Mande forgets to tell …
Joan Rivers made her Tonight Show debut with Johnny Carson on Feb. 17, 1965. Forty-nine years later to the day, Rivers appeared in the same NBC studio on the debut episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In between, the highs of becoming Carson’s permanent guest host in 1983, …
