The Definitive Guide to Comedy
You’ll never look at the cereal aisle in your grocery store the same way again, after hearing Baron Vaughn break it all down for you in this stand-up performance on Conan. As Vaughn gets older, he’s also coming to grips with the increasing realization that he may never develop superpowers. …
Attention, YouTubers! Rob Riggle and his comedic colleagues who co-star in Riggle’s new webseries, “Coogan Auto,” have fired a shot across your bows. In their short promotional video, “Real Actors Against Web Videos,” Riggle, JB Smoove, Horatio Sanz, Jake Johnson and Alison Becker lump YouTube video-makers together as a sad, …
Does your stand-up show include fireworks? How about fire? No? Kevin Hart’s shows do. Then again, Hart tours arenas now — he sold out two dates at Madison Square Garden in November, for which he filmed his next stand-up concert film. On last night’s episode of Conan, Hart explained to …
Dan Soder made his late-night TV debut last night on Conan, and killed it. Soder has a great attitude on and off-stage and great jokes to go with it, too. In this performance, Soder makes fun of himself and his generation of Millennials, illustrating it via tattoos; fills us in …
Kyle Kinane just put out his first hourlong Comedy Central special, Whiskey Icarus. Kinane is one of my favorites. Why don’t you make him one of yours, too? To help celebrate (or promote the new disc), Kinane appeared last night on Conan, where he talked about finding love through “Thousand …
Nobody is booking comedy guests for late-night TV chat in America these days quite like my friends at Team Coco. Or, should I type, quite as daringly and creatively — for every traditional stand-up performance you may see on Conan in his TBS era, you’re just as likely to find …
Tommy Johnagin had quite a 2012, as he and his girlfriend became parents, and he also signed a script deal with NBC to turn his real-life experiences into a sitcom. On Conan, Johnagin lets us know how impending fatherhood treated him and his girlfriend, and how it impacted their sex …
As the resident black comedian on Conan’s writing staff, Deon Cole took it upon himself to defend Katt Williams on last night’s show. Although by defend, Cole meant to prove that even he has a right to become more famous by taking his “crazy” public. Because that’s how you really …
In the past couple of years, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has earned Emmy Awards and loyal viewers, in part, through its use of crowd-sourcing content — rewarding their biggest fans by leveraging social media to putting their Twitter suggestions into late-night TV segments. The previous Late Night occupant, Conan …
Samuel Comroe made his late-night TV debut last night on Conan, thanks to Ricky Gervais, and even more specifically, thanks to Comroe winning Gervais’ Just Sayin App contest. Comroe joked about living with Tourette’s, and also received an invite from Conan O’Brien to sit down for a panel interview segment. …
