The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Karen Rontowski likes to think outside of the box. And she tells you why in her network TV debut, which she made Friday night on Late Show with David Letterman. Congrats, Karen! Roll the clip.
In case you missed it Friday night, David Letterman welcomed Larry Miller back to the Late Show to perform a stand-up set. Miller milks the initial audience applause breaks for more, then fills us in on what’s wrong with kids these days. Kids! Good try! Roll the clip.
Living in New York City, it’s difficult to get through a September 11 without thinking about what happened that day in 2001, and yet I hadn’t planned on mentioning it here. Then I saw that two-hour documentary on CBS, 9/11: Ten Years Later, which saw two brothers filming the FDNY’s …
I didn’t remember the first time that Jim McDonald performed on Letterman, but sure enough, the Internet tells me it was about four years ago. McDonald also has done Ferguson’s show twice, and been around long enough to have TV credits on the old A&E shows from Caroline’s and The …
In his third appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, check out how Joe Wong keeps a slow and deliberate pacing to his delivery. It not only allows the audience to follow along with his Chinese accent, but also gives them chances to laugh at pauses that normally wouldn’t be …
Bill Burr is and has been one of my favorite stand-up comedians over the past decade. Never afraid to tell you what’s on his mind and take the opposite position from convention wisdom and find a way to make you laugh and agree with it. On last night’s Late Show …
In his first show back on the air since a Muslim extremist sympathetic to Al-Qaeda called for jihad and threatened to cut off his tongue, David Letterman used his sharp tongue to make jokes both at his expense as well as the terrorists, unleashing a monologue and a Top 10 …
Through the magic of video recording equipment, you could watch Louis CK on your television last night performing from NYC-based Late Show with David Letterman, while two packed audiences in Montreal saw him perform live there in Canada. Louis CK is in Montreal today, as well, to receive the Just …
