The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Are you wearing your suspenders and sweatpants? Then snap out of retirement and stop trying to ghost Josh Gondelman. Because that’s not what ghosting is. Gondelman explains in his TV debut on Wednesday’s Conan. Roll the clip! Gondelman’s first comedy album, “Physical Whisper,” is out now.
Emily Galati on Monday’s Conan explained how birth control is far from a sin, but rather one of the few things that keeps her religious. Or several of the things. There are more similarities than you might think. Roll the clip!
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “enjoying yourself?” Shane Torres has some thoughts on that, and they don’t typically revolve around a mall’s food court, but in this situation, they definitely did. Here’s more from Torres in his debut performance on Tuesday’s Conan. Roll the clip!
Where does Conan O’Brien fit into the current late-night TV landscape? Does he even fit in? O’Brien certainly is the longest-serving late-night host in American television, presiding over talk shows on NBC and now TBS since 1993, and The Washington Post‘s Emily Yahr checks in on Conan and Team Coco …
If online dating seems weird or crazy to you now, just imagine what dating used to be like. Carmen Lynch reminds us in a very real and practical way in her stand-up set she performed Tuesday on Conan. Which lessons do you think informed her own dating life more, those …
Leonard Ouzts made his stand-up TV debut Monday night on Conan (you may already have spotted him in cameos on other specials and shows, or a currently-running Optimum cable ad), and he’s happy to be on camera. Happy, too, to no longer have to deal with customers at IHOP who …
Adam Cayton-Holland says parents can be funny when they find out you want to become a professional stand-up comedian, although their version of funny is only suddenly taking pride in your decision once everyone sees you on TV. When you find yourself teaching teenagers, though, the rules are different. Or …
Of course, Dulcé Sloan knows you can see her bra during her late-night TV debut on Conan. Don’t you think she knows that? Don’t think you can embrace her bosom, though, just because you call yourself gay. There are still rules of decorum when it comes to Sloan, who recently …
Daniel Sloss is only 25 but already has eight tours of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival under his belt, plus five appearances on American television via Conan in the past couple of years. How did he get so big in Scotland and around the world at such a young age? And …
Daniel Sloss cannot watch another Spider-Man movie the same way. And not just because they keep making new Spider-Man movies. No. It’s because Sloss has learned where spiders keep their reproductive organs, and he shared this information in his fifth stand-up performance on Conan, which also is remarkable when you …
