The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nick Griffin has performed several times on the Ed Sullivan Theatre stage and the Late Show, but Friday marked his first performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Griffin put a new spin on adulthood and what it means to be grown-up, observing: “It’s hard to be an adult…you’re …
It’s Friday the 13th on your calendar, which marked a dark day for several network TV series awaiting their fates for renewal or cancellation. But even for those sitcoms fortunate enough to earn a second season — or those pilots looking for their initial season orders by ABC, CBS, FOX, …
Ryan Hamilton is a great stand-up comedian and a great stand-up guy who performed to great acclaim on Friday night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. You can watch it right here, as he describes the unnecessarily laborious process to cancel his gym membership in 2016. Side note: …
I don’t know if every stand-up comedian who performs on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has to have a direct personal connection to the host, but it certainly has started out that way. Sam Morril became the third stand-up to perform on Colbert’s Late Show since he took over …
Rachel Feinstein made her network late-night TV debut as a stand-up on Monday’s episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, and Feinstein let us know how a great TV show can trick you into staying in a bad relationship. She also introduced us to her mother, by impersonating …
CBS announced a new showrunner today for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, moving Eric Licht from his executive producer gig on the morning shift for CBS This Morning to help steer the late-night ship into more comfortable long-term territory. Before you rush to write your hot-take thinkpieces about how …
Lots of changes in Cameron Esposito‘s world this past year. She got married. She realized her wife can change the headlight in her car using only her bare hands. And she realized that she wants to have a baby. It’s 2016! So how much thought should they put into finding …
Modern Family remains a hit for ABC in its seventh season, and that network has successfully expanded that family sitcom template in the past couple of seasons to include blackish, Fresh Off The Boat, The Goldbergs, and coming next week, they hope to do likewise with The Real O’Neals. CBS …
There’s a moment in the beginning of I’m Your Girlfriend, the new hour stand-up special from Whitney Cummings (and her first for HBO), in which she stops to examine the audience members in the front row for her taping. “I’m shooting my HBO special. No big deal. This has been …
Maria Bamford is Stephen Colbert’s favorite comedian. Don’t take my word for it. Colbert said that himself when he invited Bamford onto The Late Show on Friday night to really kick off the show’s relationship with stand-up comedy and comedians. Bamford joked about being a newlywed and keeping the love …
