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Tom Papa returned to perform again on Conan, and he wants us all to shut up about how fat we’re getting because all of us have gotten fat, and there’s no turning back. No TV makeover show can make us feel better than we already should feel. It’s OK! Roll …
Laurie Kilmartin’s new stand-up album is filled with jokes about her dead dad, as you can see from the title or just listen to find out for yourself. But for her most recent performance on Conan, Kilmartin wanted to crack fun at raising her son as a single mom, and …
Mark Normand has a great new hour of stand-up available through Comedy Central called “Don’t Be Yourself,” and yet back again on Conan, Normand is letting us know what he thinks and how he feels about babies, transgender bathrooms, racism and relationships. Roll the clip!
Seaton Smith’s proper debut on Conan got bumped by a few weeks, thanks to spillover time from a previous guest. But the wait was worth it for Smith, who joked about growing up his whole life watching Conan O’Brien in late-night TV. Smith got everyone else’s attention with a stand-up …
Conan will reign in late-night on TBS for at least five more years, as the network just announced a deal keeping Conan O’Brien and Team Coco in the fold through 2022, along with a new 90-minute late-night block of programming for Super Deluxe, and orders for four new primetime series. …
If you’re worried about healthcare, then perhaps you should listen to Joe List‘s experiences, as he joked on Thursday’s Conan. Turns it you really should ask the right questions before you go into surgery. Roll the clip!
The most intriguing thing to me about Vir Das performing this routine on Conan isn’t readily apparent just by looking at this clip. But when I tell you that Tuesday night’s Conan also included Hank Azaria as a guest, then you’ll probably want to know, as I did, whether Azaria stuck around …
Brad Wenzel returned to Conan last night, and not just so he could fire a zinger at Donald Trump. Wenzel acknowledged that his observations might not make you laugh as consistently or as loudly as a fart or a person falling down, but this set proves he’s got some funny …
Ian Abramson made the most of his late-night TV debut on Conan on Monday night with a unique twist. And I’m not talking about that mustache. No, Abramson (who hosts/produces a live show and Comedy Central webseries called 7 Minutes in Purgatory) decided to strap a dog’s shock collar around …
Nothing I say can prepare you for the end of Joe Pera’s set on Tuesday night’s Conan. Well, perhaps I could tell you to bone up on your knowledge of birch trees. Or I could hire a body language expert. Or I could tell you that this smile pictured above …
