The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Surprise, surprise, surprise! Beyoncé blew our minds when she released a full album in 2013 without advance warning, press or promotion. The release itself served as the hype machine. She did it again a day before performing at Super Bowl 50. Comedians have now began to embrace the concept, too. …
Conan O’Brien’s special Star Wars episode of Conan last night on TBS included much of the cast of Episode VII: The Force Awakens. But before he got to them, Conan and Andy Richter invited a few of their comedian friends to Jerry’s Diner to play out a cold open in …
“This job looks easy,” Norm Macdonald told Conan O’Brien, gesturing to O’Brien’s role behind the desk as host of Conan. “Do you have the chops to do it?” O’Brien asked Wednesday night. “I’ve been studying it like a Jesuit,” Macdonald said of the tasks required to host a late-night TV …
Whereas Jimmy Kimmel, Andy Cohen, Seth Meyers and Pete Holmes will be among the late-night hosts heading to Austin next month for SXSW, Conan O’Brien and Team Coco are headed just up Interstate 35 to the Big D to follow March Madness. Conan will broadcast for TBS from March 31 through …
You’ve seen this photo of late 1980s improv group Comedy Underground with comedians Andy Richter and David Koechner when they were younger and their builds were thin but their hair was not. They performed with Jay Leggett, who died late last year. Koechner was on Conan last night, though, and …
We first saw Conan O’Brien as a bona fide late-night TV talk-show host on NBC in September 1993. It’s never too late to celebrate a 20th anniversary, though, is it? That’s what Team Coco has decided, kicking off a weeklong celebration Monday night on TBS with plenty of clip packages from the …
Louis C.K. is in Los Angeles for the upcoming Emmy Awards on Sunday night, but he certainly got into the spirit of #tbt last night as he and Conan O’Brien went total Throwback Thursday on Conan by reminiscing about their first days and nights on Late Night with Conan O’Brien …
Good news all around for Team Coco this week. Jimmy Pardo is stepping in as Conan O’Brien’s sidekick tonight and Wednesday night for tapings of Conan on TBS. Whither Andy Richter, you say? You don’t say! No. Don’t say it. Because Richter is busy with his own new TV project …
Nobody is booking comedy guests for late-night TV chat in America these days quite like my friends at Team Coco. Or, should I type, quite as daringly and creatively — for every traditional stand-up performance you may see on Conan in his TBS era, you’re just as likely to find …
It has been 40 years since Marlo Thomas and her friends made puberty and sex a little easier to swallow for young children with the seminal release of Free To Be…You And Me. Oh no. I didn’t. But Rob Kutner, Stephen Levinson, Joel Moss Levinson and their comedy friends did. …
