The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Noah Gardenswartz‘s biggest week ever kicked off Monday night with an appearance on Conan, where the comedian joked about a subway poet, moving in with his girlfriend, and trying acid for the first time. Gardenswartz has his debut stand-up comedy album coming out this weekend, coinciding with the premiere of …
Matthew Broussard has such good hair, he looks like the bad guy in a 1980s movie. “I get it. I’ve seen mirrors.” So Broussard joked on Monday’s Conan that he had joined a support group for people who peaked in high school. Roll the clip.
What a master class of a TV stand-up set here, by my friend, Mr. Gary Gulman, on Wednesday’s Conan. Gulman takes the ridiculous notion of a Netflix documentary on the official U.S. Postal Service decision to create two-letter state abbreviations — which isn’t a thing, although it couldn’t dare compare …
Aparna Nancherla returned to Conan the other night, and she has a problem with pills. Well, not so much the pills, but how it looks if you happen to drop them on the floor or street. That’s very problematic. Perhaps she’d be helped by trying a different dating website. Or …
Rhea Butcher has twice as much fun explaining the irony of her last name to audiences, not only because she has been a vegetarian since before she was born, but also because she is a lesbian. Wordplay. You get it. Prophecy fulfilled?! Butcher, in her debut on Thursday’s Conan, also …
Joel Kim Booster made his Conan debut on Wednesday, and explained what it was like growing up as an adopted Korean baby in the Midwest U.S. in the 1980s. For instance: “I knew I was gay before I knew I was Asian.” He also reports that the Midwest sensibilities can be …
Fun fact about Doug Smith: His great-great-great grandfather was Ulysses S. Grant. Funnier fact about Smith: Monday night was his debut on Conan, and Smith could find ways to poke fun at how he doesn’t measure up to his famous lineage, as well as how his father lost an eye …
Daniel Sloss returned to Conan again — and on Monday night’s show, Sloss wondered how Brits can get condoms for free, but if a woman wants a tampon, she has to pay for it, and then gets taxed upon it as a “luxury item.” And you thought your health-care system …
Tom Papa returned to Conan on Thursday, and said if you really want to be scared about where the world is heading, just think about where all of the adults went. “Everybody’s a baby now.” Adult coloring books? Therapy dogs? Then again, Papa has two daughters, and realizes they’ve begun …
Mark Normand had sex on the brain for his latest stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan. Find out what he’d like to tell the ladies, and what he’s learned from having a gay roommate. Roll the clip!
