The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sheng Wang likes seeing ladies at his gym, but he’s not going to try too hard to impress them with his own strength and flexibility. For one thing, he has a girlfriend. Wang explains in this performance from Wednesday night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. With Valentine’s Day around the …
If you think the Late Night franchise at NBC is in a pickle, well, you’re half right. There is a pickle involved. But this is a different sort of dill, er, I mean, deal. On Tuesday night, Jimmy Fallon passed the pickle onto Seth Meyers — the same one he’d …
For far too many stand-up comedians, crowd work is a crutch to lean against when you don’t have material. For far too many audience members, crowd work means a fear that a stand-up comedian will make fun of you. But it’s something special when Todd Barry does it. You’ll find …
If you think there’s a lot going on in late-night TV talk in 2014, just wait until you see the humorous convergence taking place the second weekend of March in Austin, Texas. SXSW already announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live will broadcast five shows from the interactive, film and music festival …
The third season of Stand Up and Deliver starts Tuesday night on NUVOtv, but this time, they’re broadcasting from Cabo San Lucas! They taped this season’s stand-up showcases last fall during the first-ever Cabo Comedy Festival. Julissa Bermudezand Jose Sarduy host each of the 10 episodes, which include three up-and-comers and a …
Not pictured: Kevin Allison and Todd Holoubek The nine other members of sketch group The State did reunite on the cable TV on Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday past midnight for Comedy Central’s comedy game show, @midnight (for which Thomas Lennon is an executive producer). Michael Showalter, Kerri …
Stephen Colbert wasn’t in Los Angeles on Sunday night for the Grammy Awards to win his second trophy, this time for Best Spoken Word Album. Which means, as Colbert pointed out with his first Grammy in hand on Monday night’s episode of The Colbert Report, he’s so good at speaking …
There have been more than a few parodies of the great feature film, her, including a very special version that aired on Saturday Night Live featuring Jonah Hill, the voice of Jonah Hill and a “Superbad” cameo as the surrogate. Before that aired, though, this showed up on YouTube. It’s …
The sixth time was the charm for Kathy Griffin, who took home her first Grammy win for Best Comedy Album at the 56th annual Grammy Awards. Griffin won for the digital audio recording of her 2013 Bravo TV special, “Calm Down Gurrl.” Also nominated in Best Comedy Album: Craig Ferguson, …
Third-time Saturday Night Live host Jonah Hill also celebrates becoming a second-time Academy Award nominee, so how much goodness would that manifest on this particular Saturday night? Wait. Hold that thought. In fact, hold all of your thoughts. Don’t think. It’ll be better this way. There’s still hope for you …
