The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 that replaced Che’s face with that of Jay Leno. But he quickly backtracked from his “Che Leno” shirt, replacing it with a “Jay Guevara” shirt, …
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 from Letterman when the latter bolted to CBS for an 11:35 p.m. slot, all because NBC chose Jay Leno over Letterman. Now O’Brien knows that …
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 Comic in 2011. A few of the more popular posts on the site actually dated back to 2010 or even 2009, thanks to people loving …
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), we can take a step back and see who’s doing well and who didn’t make it to year’s end. How your favorite late-night talk show …
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 panel with Jay Leno before, and certainly not with his ever-growing hairdo flowing out from underneath his ball cap — and most especially not whilst …
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 close that Madigan still felt comfortable expressing her opinion on Obama’s job performance, as well as the Republican challengers. Madigan also makes a compelling case …
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 some very valid points about drugs, conversations that could be movie plots as well as actual movies that don’t seem to make sense. Roll the …
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 also has a Filipino mother. Did he use her accent to get laughs? What do you think? Roll the clip. https://www.hulu.com/watch/285419/the-tonight-show-with-jay-leno-jo-koy
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.” Wait. That was a decade ago? Well, now Ross Mathews is all grown up, slimmed down, but still flamboyant in a suit as a frequent …
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 …
