Inside inside joke shirt: The Simpsons’ meta product placement for JeShirt
by A few months ago, comedy director Jason Woliner decided to launch his own novelty T-shirt business, selling a parody of the red Che Guevara T-shirts …
Tag: Jay Leno
Watch Conan O’Brien sit down for Late Show with David Letterman
For the first time in 13 years, Conan O’Brien paid a visit to David Letterman’s TV talk show. O’Brien took over NBC’s Late Night show …
Year in Review: Top 10 Posts of 2011
Before we jump into the comedy news of 2012, let’s take one more look back at what you clicked on most here at The Comic’s …
The late-night TV wars of 2011: Winners and losers
With late-night TV pretty much done for the year (everyone’s airing repeats or is pre-empted for holiday programming for next week’s final week of 2011), …
Dave Attell visits The Tonight Show, jokes with Kristen Stewart and hawks “Old Porn”
Dave Attell has made the late-night TV rounds before, both as a host and as a stand-up comedian. But I cannot recall him ever doing …
On Leno, Kathleen Madigan talks politics, drugs, guns
Kathleen Madigan was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this week. Not the same episode as President Barack Obama. But close. Very close. So …
Barry Rothbart’s late-night debut on The Tonight Show
In case you missed it, Barry Rothbart made his late-night TV debut the other night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. And Rothbart made …
On The Tonight Show, Jo Koy reveals his sleep apnea
Jo Koy was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday night, and he talked at length about his problems with sleep apnea. He …
Timing: E! signs deal with Ross Mathews as Chelsea Handler lets him guest host, looks to exit
Seems like only a decade ago that viewers first saw a flamboyant chubby kid stealing scenes from Jay Leno’s Tonight Show as “Ross the Intern.” …
David Letterman responds to jihad threat with jokes, jokes, more jokes
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, …