The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s the end of 2025, which means it’s time once more for my annual December to remember the year in comedy with my friend and colleague in comedy criticism, Jason Zinoman from The New York Times. Which funny people met the moment to become Comedy’s Most Valuable Performer for 2025? …
Conan O’Brien spent the final 15 minutes of his final late-night TV show on TBS thanking all of the people who have made his show possible over the three decades he has been in television. Watch and weep. Don’t weep too much, though…Conan shall return with a weekly variety show …
Flula Borg is a German actor, musician, comedian and DJ who began making his mark on American audiences in 2015 — that’s when he broke through out of YouTube to become one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch, as he starred in an NBC pilot and co-starred in the smash …
Fret not for the end of Conan, for a new chapter will come soon enough. Just not on TBS. TBS announced the final episode of Conan O’Brien’s weeknight talk show, Conan, for June 24, 2021, ending his 11-year run at 11 p.m. Eastern/Pacific with the cable network. But O’Brien and …
How are we supposed to make any sense out of this year in comedy, 2020? There’s only one way I know how…that’s by reuniting with Jason Zinoman of The New York Times, the Siskel to my Ebert in comedy criticism, to hash out 2020 and give some shout outs to …
The longest-running late-night host in TV is saying goodbye in 2021. Sort of. Conan O’Brien’s CONAN will end its TBS run in June 2021. But O’Brien will keep making TV, with a new weekly series forthcoming on HBO Max. Here’s the press release! After an extraordinary 28 years as a …
Laurie Kilmartin, stand-up comedian and writer for Conan on TBS, recently lost her mother to COVID-19. Kilmartin live-Tweeted her experience, as she had when her father died from lung cancer a few years earlier. But Kilmartin could spend those final hours with her father by his bedside, in home hospice. …
Conan O’Brien took his TBS show out of his home and into Largo at The Coronet Theater in West Hollywood on Monday, along with a skeleton crew and an “audience” of one, his assistant, Sona. Why? Let Conan explain it: “Well, a lot of theaters across the country are struggling …
The COVID-19 pandemic sent Conan O’Brien home in March and his TBS Conan crew out of its Burbank studios on the Warner Bros. lot. In July, Team Coco is returning to a stage. Just not in Burbank. Instead, starting July 6, CONAN will start broadcasting from the historic Largo at the Coronet in …
Conan O’Brien graduated from Brookline High School in 1981. As a junior, the teenager who was not yet a beloved TV writer and late-night host apparently wasn’t feeling much love for the game. Until he got a hold of some E.B. White. White, a longtime contributor to The New Yorker …
