The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sid Caesar, TV’s sketch comedy pioneer, died on Wednesday in his Beverly Hills home. He was 91. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., Caesar began to make his mark at the dawn of our network television age, landing his own show in 1948 with the Admiral Broadway Revue. But it was Your …
If you think the Late Night franchise at NBC is in a pickle, well, you’re half right. There is a pickle involved. But this is a different sort of dill, er, I mean, deal. On Tuesday night, Jimmy Fallon passed the pickle onto Seth Meyers — the same one he’d …
As Jay Leno prepares to say goodbye for a second and final — no, this time, he and NBC really mean it! — to The Tonight Show, Leno sat down with 60 Minutes for an extended interview and profile. And by extended, I mean, we get to see his wife, …
Conan O’Brien had Shameless star Emmy Rossum on Thursday night’s episode of Conan, and after sharing the recent cover shot Rossum scored for Complex magazine, Rossum, fellow guest Joseph Gordon-Levitt and O’Brien opened up about how difficult it can be to comply with the directives of photographers. Especially, O’Brien said, …
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 …
Team Coco has a new installment in its fan art gallery, Coco MoCa: An infographic illustrating how to duplicate Conan O’Brien’s classic “string dance” in seven steps. You see it above. You try it out. You need help, you consult the video archives to watch Conan in action from the …
Interviewing your boss is weird. Interviewing your boss on TV is weirder. Interviewing your boss on TV when your boss has his own TV show interviewing other people is the weirdest. But when you’re Pete Holmes and you’ve built a following outside your stand-up comedy through a podcast called “You …
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 …
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 …
Add another late-night TV show to your late-night TV viewing rounds, as The Pete Holmes Show has announced its lineups for the first two weeks of broadcasts at midnight Mondays-Thursdays on TBS, as well as the first three weeks of tapings. Set your TVs, DVRs and all reminders that mark …
