Dan Cummins on Conan

Dan Cummins‘ fiancee loves to butter him up. Good for the marriage, but all that fattening is making him fat. As Cummins explained on Monday’s Conan, he also has two young children who he says are very smart. Good for their education, bad for him with all of the questions …

Last Comic Standing 6: Second Semis in Vegas

After all of this, we have come to this…the second semifinal round in Las Vegas, where another 16 stand-ups will be cut down to five (make that seven) finalists for the sixth season of Last Comic Standing. Time to deadblog it now! Esther Ku tells the NBC cameras if she …

Last Comic Standing 6: Minneapolis and Nashville

If you knew nothing about comedy and turned on NBC tonight, the first few minutes of Last Comic Standing would not help you discern whether Americans actually have a sense of humor. And the celebrity judges from The Office, Kate Flannery and Brian Baumgartner are not helping matters. First up …

Behind the CCP: Dan Cummins

The 2008 season of Comedy Central Presents begins tonight with back-to-back half-hours from Stephen Lynch and Dan Cummins. I was at the Cummins taping (which airs at 10:30 p.m. tonight) and will be most interested to see how it edits — he didn’t go over completely well with the audience, …