The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Walking Dead, a show about life in Georgia just after the zombie apocalypse, has emerged this year as America’s most popular TV series — not just on cable, but also beating just about anything living and breathing on the broadcast networks among viewers 18-49. As the networks watch viewers …
Do you remember Agent Duncan from the 1992 Wesley Snipes movie, Passenger 57? If so, then this man needs no further introduction. For everyone else, here is comedian Jim McDonald, performing on last night’s episode of Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. In this set, McDonald discusses spending the night …
Matt Goldich has written jokes behind the scenes of some of your favorite late-night TV programs, and last night, Goldich made his stand-up comedy debut in front of the camera with a performance on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. In this set, we learn that Goldich’s wife has problems …
Matt Morales is a San Francisco-based comedian, but as he told the audience last night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, he’s still a Louisiana guy. A Louisiana guy in California with car problems, bus problems, but not man problems nor woman problems. He does have a problem, though, …
Perhaps you’ve seen Chris DiStefano before on your TV this year dispensing advice to the teens via MTV2’s Guy Code or MTV’s Girl Code. Last night, DiStefano made his network television debut performing stand-up on Late Show with David Letterman. Here we learn a little more about his background, his …
Barry Rothbart has grown a beard for the summer. Hooray, beards! Rothbart performed on Friday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and joked about Super Shuttles and getting into trouble while naked. No, not on the Super Shuttle. They’re separate bits. And not the bits that got him into …
I’m not entirely sure if this opening line is brilliant or brilliantly awkward, but I am convinced that Dylan Moran gave 100 percent of himself to this performance last night on Late Show with David Letterman. Moran’s an Irishman. His first stand-up tour of North American theaters begins this weekend …
Neil Patrick Harris closed out his hosting duties on the 2013 Tony Awards on Sunday night with a freestyle rap and backing melodies from five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail, Tony winners themselves for In The Heights and also erstwhile founding members of Freestyle Love Supreme, …
Andy Kindler is not only a correspondent for Late Show with David Letterman, he’s also sometimes asked to showcase his stand-up comedy on the program. As he did again last night. In this set, Kindler jokes about hotels that put life concepts into their names, the origination of phrases such …
John Oliver made his first appearance last night on Late Show with David Letterman. After talking about the differences between comedy in the UK and the USA — audiences are surprisingly worse and prone to heckling at every opportunity across the pond, apparently, if that makes American stand-up comedians feel …
