Your guide to the 2016 New York Comedy Festival

Everybody loves a comedy festival. And in this year of 2016, it doesn’t just feel as though every city has its own comedy festival, because not only do they, but oftentimes, several cities have recruited all-star comedy lineups to their region on the same weekend. And New York City can …

Orlando Baxter on Conan

Orlando Baxter made his late-night stand-up debut on Monday’s Conan, and the Boston-based comedian joked about how this compares to his previous job as an in-suspension schoolteacher. Baxter took his one-man show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer. How’s he doing in his new career? Let me put it …

Kyle Kinane on Conan

Kyle Kinane is still loving life, even if he loves it so much it’s making him unhealthy. Perhaps when the aliens come, they will save us all. Or at least Kinane. This is his latest stand-up set on Conan. Roll the clip! Kinane has a new Comedy Central special, “Loose …

Mike Recine on Conan

Mike Recine returned to Conan on Tuesday’s episode, joking about guys who try to order food in Spanish without knowing how to speak Spanish, guys who listen to talking dogs, and wondering whether there really is such a thing as the “worst pedophile.” Roll the clip!

Nick Cody on Conan

Nick Cody may be from Australia, but he recognizes a universal truth: Small towns are small because nobody wants to live there. Just look at Los Angeles, Cody said on the stage in Burbank for Tuesday’s Conan. Cody is engaged, and neither his fiancee’s fit and healthy lifestyle tips nor …

Mary Mack on Conan

Watch Mary Mack earn “the worst applause break in history” during her stand-up performance on Wednesday’s Conan. Those are Mack’s words! And she cracks Conan O’Brien up while doing so, as she also joked about performing in Los Angeles, the weirdness of San Francisco residents claiming “the Bay Area,” and …

Brent Sullivan on Conan

What were the last two weeks of your heterosexuality like? For comedian Brent Sullivan, it involved an unhealthy obsession with female bodybuilders, as he joked in his performance Wednesday on Conan. Sullivan also dished about a new low he felt in therapy, which is perhaps lower than the time he …

Dan Naturman on Conan

Dan Naturman returned to Conan on Tuesday night, once more a new uncle, fresh with jokes about how much simpler a job being an uncle is than a father. Especially to just not be bad at it. Naturman also joked about the difference between texting a potential mate and calling …