The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Is Vince Vaughn still money to you? How you answer that question will sway how you felt about this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, which featured Vaughn as host for his first time back to the studio since Swingers was his main credit. If, for you, Swingers remains his …
With all of the renewed talk about the shuffling of late-night TV hosts, can you believe it has been 20 years since a then-unknown Conan O’Brien auditioned for NBC’s Late Night franchise? Team Coco released a snippet of video from that day’s taping — April 13, 1993 — in Burbank, …
Jonathan Winters, one of the most inventive and inspired comedians whose career spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century, has died. He was 87. This is the message on his website today: “Jonathan Winters passed away of natural causes at his Montecito, California home at 6:45 p.m. PDT on …
Here’s something for your (TBT) Throwback Thursday files. Within the opening minute of Milton Berle’s Mad Mad Mad World of Comedy (made and aired in 1974-1975), we see Laurel & Hardy in their later years do a classic joke in public, followed immediately by Milton Berle doing the same joke on …
About five years ago, Nina Conti faced a crisis of self-confidence regarding her career as a ventriloquist — despite winning the BBC New Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2002 and the Barry Award six years later at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (which she shared in Australia with Kristen Schaal). …
For his next episode of his spin-off video podcast, Serious Jibber-Jabber With Conan O’Brien, O’Brien reunites with his former co-workers from the writers’ room of The Simpsons to discuss the early days of the FOX animated classic. Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen, and Jeff Martin talk about comedy, fatherhood and how …
Pete Lee made his debut last night on Late Show with Dqvid Letterman. Lee, who appears weekly on the new version of VH1’s Best Week Ever and just shared his tips with The Comic’s Comic on entering and winning stand-up comedy competitions, poked fun at himself for his name, his …
Anyone who has followed Bo Burnham’s burgeoning comedy career from his bedroom out to the comedy clubs and theaters literally has seen him and his comedy grow up. As Burnham has matured, he has shown a fondness for commenting on celebrity and art and comedy — and his new MTV …
So you want to win a comedy contest? Sounds like fun, right? Maybe if you win. But first, you have to enter the competition. Submit a tape (wait, what’s a tape? A tape is what we used to record video on, and keep separately from the camera, make physical copies …
Nate Bargatze returned to perform on Conan again on Monday night, but some friends and family also joined him on the TBS stage in story form. So congrats to Luis J. Gomez for his first de facto late-night TV appearance? Wait. Does it count if you’re mentioned as falling victim …
