The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Alex Edelman stopped by The Late Show on Friday to joke about how he compares to his Olympian brother and his medical-innovating father. It’s just a bit of context should you want to experience Edelman’s one-man show, “Just For Us.”
Maria Bamford showed up on The Late Late Show on Thursday night to pay tribute to her mom, with jokes about her conversations with customer-service reps, her gift for telling stories with no beginning middle or end, and how she dealt with her lung cancer before she died. “Treat yourself. …
Ray Ellin has been the host with the most for most of his adult life. He started by MC’ing stand-up shows at comedy clubs in New York City. In the late 2000s, he launched a live interactive talk show, LateNet with Ray Ellin, first for his own website, DailyComedy.com, and …
Kimberly Clark joked Monday night on The Late Late Show about “The Great Resignation,” or how many people have quit their jobs or careers during the pandemic. She also dispels the rumor you may have made up in your own mind that Kimberly Clark is not her real name, because …
From the outside looking in, Eleanor Conway had a pretty good gig going for herself as a music journalist for Virgin Mobile, interviewing the biggest pop stars and singers on the planet. But she was miserable on the inside, and Conway had to change her life inside out. She has since …
Three nights in a row this week, one of the late-night talk shows has trotted out a stand-up comedian. On Wednesday, it was The Late Show‘s turn, and here’s Russell Howard visiting us from Britain. Weird timing for these particular Putin jokes, but ok.
Eric Nuemann made his Tonight Show debut on Tuesday, joking about the chance to be away from his overprotective mom, although it could be worse. You could have the same therapist as your mother. Oh wait, that’s Neumann, too.
Late-night shows took a break from stand-up comedy during the Winter Olympics, but now that that’s done, we can get back to booking comedians on the TV? Great. Here’s Sam Morril on The Late Late Show, and you can see by the way James Corden embraced him afterward, just how …
Blair Socci played Division I college volleyball and went to grad school for creative writing before finding her voice through stand-up comedy. Her first break came in 2016 co-starring in the MTV sketch show, Ladylike. After becoming a New Face at Just For Laughs, Socci made her way back to …
R.J. Fried turned down the National Hockey League first to pursue his college education, and then a career in comedy. So far, so good. Fried is an Emmy-nominated and WGA Award-winning comedy writer, producer, and performer whose credits have included Triumph’s Election Special 2016, (Hulu), Maya & Marty (NBC), Onion Sportsdome (Comedy …
