The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Joe Zimmerman made his late-night network TV debut last night on CBS with Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Zimmerman was a New Face in Montreal this summer, and being busy might make him more tired than ever this year. But it’s great for jokes! I’d say Zimmerman’s career is …
Rhys Darby wasn’t just the ill-suited manager and diplomat for New Zealand’s musical duo Flight of the Conchords on HBO, he’s also a stand-up comedian himself. Darby was in New York City last weekend, and performed Friday night on Late Show with David Letterman. Darby proved why men aren’t necessarily …
Stephen Colbert may have won two Emmy Awards this year, and he was quick to remind us of this on Thursday night’s episode of The Colbert Report. But Colbert has his sights on a new prize, the “crystal vagina” that is the People’s Choice Award. In a segment called “Who …
Has Brian Regan really performed 27 times now on Late Show with David Letterman? Or is it 27 times overall, including NBC and CBS late-night spots? Either way, quite an accomplishment. Just keeping count, or maintaining your spot in line, is something, too. As Regan reminds us in this set …
We’re barely a month into the Fall 2013 TV season, and already America’s four primary primetime broadcast networks have decided the fates of several of its rookie sitcoms. Welcome To The Family? From welcome mat to doormat, said NBC, showing it the exit after three episodes. We Are Men didn’t …
Nick Cobb performed on Friday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Cobb fills us in on an inexpensive alternative to therapy, thoughts on destination weddings, online passwords, and dealing with your parents on Facebook. Roll the clip!
Would you believe that Alan Alda’s Hawkeye Pierce wasn’t the moral center of M*A*S*H, the hit CBS series for 11 seasons from 1972-1983? That’s what Alda would have us believe. Here. “I never saw myself as the moral center of M*A*S*H,” Alda told Jeff Greenfield during a conversation Tuesday night …
Simon Amstell is a young chap from the U.K. on his own on the road and at home. And despite his youth, he has some honestly dark and amusing insight into a life lived in isolation. No rules! Perhaps there should be some rules. Or at least one rule. Failing …
Brian McKim, aka “The Male Half” of Shecky Magazine, performed on Friday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. For this set, McKim proved he’s still bringing the laughs per minute 25 years after he first decided to do so for a living. Jokes, jokes, jokes. Do you suppose “The …
Tom Cotter returned to Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for another stand-up set on Wednesday night’s show. This time around, Cotter talked up how stand-up comedy is a dream job, mostly when compared to all of the other jobs out there. Like your job, for example. Are you working? …
