The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Mo Mandel returned for another stand-up performance Wednesday night on Conan, and if you think Mandel has gotten older since then, so have you and everyone else. Mandel wants you to know about his dad, though, who’s now 70 years old. If you think that’s something, though, just listen to …
In case you missed it Monday night, D.J. Demers crossed the border from Canada to make his American TV debut on Conan. Demers has done plenty of TV in Canada before, but you might not know much about him here in the States. So here’s one thing to know: Demers …
Forrest Shaw has grown “taco tits” since moving from Miami to Los Angeles, thanks to all of the food trucks. No thanks to organic food, which is too expensive. As he notes: “Why does organic food cost more? Don’t they do nothing to it?” And yet, as he explains on his …
Work hard, play hard, joke hard? That seems to be the motto for Allen Strickland Williams, who made his TV debut on Wednesday night’s episode of Conan. Williams is one-fourth of the sketch group WOMEN, but here, he stands alone, telling one-liners. Roll the clip!
Online, this clever kid from New Hampshire is SimplyMattD. But that simply won’t do when you’re making your national TV debut, so Conan O’Brien introduced him to you on your tubes under his real name, Matt Donaher. Donaher’s set examined his lifelong difficulties with women, and a slightly related bit …
The “Greatest Generation” won a world war, had to drink pulp in their orange juice and couldn’t download a book into their hands within seconds. So how great were they, really? One of my faves, Gary Gulman, performed on Tuesday’s Conan and put all of that and some more technological …
Working the road as a stand-up comedian often entails early-morning promotions the day of or before your weekend club and theater appearances, both on local radio and TV stations. It can be fun. It can be terrible. It can be terribly fun. Especially if you want to take advantage of …
Dan St. Germain showed up to perform in a suit on Monday’s Conan, which is an odd look for this man at this location. As he readily acknowledged. His ex-girlfriend left him to work for Google, which is awkward for all of us. I wonder what his future self would tell …
What if you’re heckled onstage while you’re taping your late-night submission for Conan, only it’s not a heckle but a profane order from an NYPD officer to “shut the fuck up” because cops are arresting an audience member? Do you shoot down the heckler? Obviously not. Do you try to …
Pete Correale is no spring chicken. And yet, on Wednesday’s Conan, he let us in on the fact that he’s married with a very young daughter. And so fatherhood begins. His family lives in the kind of small town where everybody likes to go fishing. But it’s not the kind …
