The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Stephen Colbert may have won two Emmy Awards this year, and he was quick to remind us of this on Thursday night’s episode of The Colbert Report. But Colbert has his sights on a new prize, the “crystal vagina” that is the People’s Choice Award. In a segment called “Who …
David Letterman already knows he makes megamillions each year hosting Late Show with David Letterman on CBS. But that wealth hasn’t quite gone to his head in all of the bad ways. Letterman, with friend and writer/illustrator Bruce McCall, have published a new book that satirizes the richest one percent …
On Friday night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Fallon showed audiences how NBC crews had constructed an exact replica of his set next door in Studio 6A, where the show will air when it returns from this break until February 2014. That’s when Studio 6B (where Fallon had taped for …
With all of the late-night TV talk once again centered on NBC, sometimes Conan O’Brien and David Letterman can feel like odd men out. The comedy thing that binds them together, at least last night, was Steve Martin. In an odd, sincere tribute to Letterman, Tuesday night’s Conan featured a …
Some aspiring comedians think they need to start performing stand-up as soon as possible; like yesterday, even. Just watch Bill Cosby. Take notes. Cosby returned to Late Show with David Letterman last night, and at 75, he remains at the top of his game. Even when he’s pretending he isn’t, …
Jerry Seinfeld returned to Late Show with David Letterman tonight, but on this trip, Letterman turned the tables on Seinfeld, asking when he might be invited as a guest on Jerry’s webseries for Crackle, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Well. Would he? Could he? Should he? Seinfeld joked about Letterman …
In case you missed it, Oprah got David Letterman to sit down for an in-depth hourlong TV interview that covers his real and imagined feuds with Jay Leno and Oprah herself, his affair that went very public, his bouts with depression, and more. The interview aired Sunday night. They taped …
Finding a sincere, sit-down interview with David Letterman is about as rare as finding one with the late Johnny Carson. Which, if you follow Letterman’s career as closely as he has followed Carson’s, makes perfect sense. Almost. But this year, the Kennedy Center Honors have honored David Letterman — the …
Joe Wong recently scored his third fourth (?) fifth (??) appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, and as in past performances on the show, he reminds the viewing audience that he is an immigrant to America (although he ponders why immigrants also are called aliens), as well as more realistic …
Nick Griffin eats like a kid but wants to act like an adult. Can you help him? He’s a bachelor, people. “Which is a fancy way of saying I’m alone.” Roll the clip of Griffin’s recent appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
