The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The 1980s were alive and lip-synched Monday night on Conan, as favored musical comedic guest Reggie Watts was on hand for something, well, completely different from his usual completely different performances. For one thing, he wasn’t alone onstage. Watts had The Dance Cartel with him to shake, shimmy and move …
Sean Patton has a younger brother. A much younger brother — 14 years younger. On Tuesday night’s Conan, Patton told a story of taking his brother to see Men in Black when the brother was only 4, and how his homemade neuralyzer would have a long-lasting impact on their brotherhood. …
America the beautiful is so dreamy that we have more food and water than some other countries only can dream of…as Adam Yenser explained on Wednesday night’s Conan. Speaking of excess food, Yenser wonders why Applebee’s menu items sound like types of diarrhea. Just imagine, he could have eaten at …
Sam Simmons put on one of the more gleeful and dizzyingly giddy one-man shows I’ve seen at Montreal’s Just For Laughs. Naturally, Simmons also is one of those Australian comedians who made a name for himself in the U.K. before putting himself before American audiences now. Then again, nature abhors …
Add another late-night TV show to your late-night TV viewing rounds, as The Pete Holmes Show has announced its lineups for the first two weeks of broadcasts at midnight Mondays-Thursdays on TBS, as well as the first three weeks of tapings. Set your TVs, DVRs and all reminders that mark …
Aparna Nancherla is a writer/performer on FXX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, but on Monday night, she had the night off from her day job so she could perform her night job on another late-night TV talk show on another network. You dig? You dig. Nancherla was on Conan. …
Have you ever asked someone “How are you?” only to immediately regret finding out the answer? Erin Foley feels your pain. In this stand-up performance on Thursday night’s Conan on TBS, Foley also fills you in on how she’s doing, which includes a lot of fun or not-so-fun facts about …
Mike Lawrence returned to perform stand-up again on Conan last night. Did you know that Star Wars is a completely different movie for you if you’ve watched Spaceballs first? Lawrence knows how that feels. And he shared his “strong nerd opinions” about that, Ben Affleck as Batman, the Hulk Hogan …
If you tuned in last night to Conan’s special Breaking Bad episode, then perhaps you noticed that TBS offered what the network called a “Sneak Pete” at its upcoming late-night series, The Pete Holmes Show. And what a delightfully odd duck of a preview it was. Roll the clip! Fans …
Louis C.K. is in Los Angeles for the upcoming Emmy Awards on Sunday night, but he certainly got into the spirit of #tbt last night as he and Conan O’Brien went total Throwback Thursday on Conan by reminiscing about their first days and nights on Late Night with Conan O’Brien …
