The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What would you do if the pizza delivery shows up just as your grandmother dies? Do you get a discount on a grandma slice? Only one of these questions does Randy Liedtke answer in his stand-up performance on Tuesday’s Conan. As a bonus, though, Liedtke does let you listen in …
It took almost five years, but actress Ellen Page finally got Conan O’Brien to air her stand-up comedy audition tape during Tuesday night’s episode of Conan. Page explained that she was only 23 when she filmed these few minutes of stand-up in a home, substituting a hairbrush for a microphone, …
Seventeen years ago, Tom Clark was a young aspiring comedian in Milwaukee with ComedySportz who aspired to write for Conan O’Brien. How about telling stand-up on Conan in 2015? Clark will take it! Gladly. Here’s his set from Monday night, in which he jokes about learning what “cholos” mean, and offers up …
Caleb Synan had a pretty great summer, competing on Last Comic Standing, landing a slot on Montreal’s New Faces, and now making his late-night debut Tuesday night on Conan. Here’s his set, which joked about racism, Ty Cobb, his life and family in Georgia, and watching an old roast on …
Free hotel continental breakfasts are for everybody, but reading books to children is for nobody but you? I don’t want to give away all of Andrew Sleighter‘s trade secrets. So I’ll let you decide for yourself how much you want to know and when you want to know it, but …
Years before Thomas Middleditch was an award-nominated star of HBO’s Silicon Valley, he was just another comedian hustling for fame in Chicago, and in 2006, he didn’t imagine that his rap video mocking McDonald’s chicken mcnuggets would amount to as much as it has. Because McDonald’s bought the video Middleditch …
Jim Gaffigan will perform stand-up comedy for Pope Francis when the titular head of the Catholic Church visits Philadelphia later this month, and Gaffigan is even more surprised by it than you are. Gaffigan is Catholic, and his wife “is Shiite Catholic,” as he likes to joke. He’ll perform live …
Marina Franklin was looking good on Monday’s episode of Conan, which as she explained in her stand-up routine, means she’s currently between boyfriends. She has dated white men and black men, and sometimes younger men. But with the latter, she realized her date was too young when a bystander commented …
Sam Morril returned to Conan on Thursday night to deliver a kick-ass set packed with jokes. Should you be quizzed to pick up Claritin-D? Should you quiz anyone on dinosaurs? Can you tell a woman is angry by her facial expression? Why isn’t Magic Johnson the spokesperson for Trojan condoms? Do …
Maggie Maye made her big late-night TV debut on Thursday night’s Conan and crushed it. Maye is based in Austin and grew up in the Rio Grande Valley, where people have called her weird (which is good for “keeping it weird!” in Austin) and sassy, but at least that’s better …
