The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As befits her name, Joyelle Nicole Johnson is a comedian and writer who brings joy to the stage. She made her network TV debut in 2018 on Late Night with Seth Meyers, but it was her May 2021 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that made such an impression that …
Look, I know that’s a photo from 2016’s Schtick or Treat, but on the bright side, as the new curator of Comedy Listings for the Weekend Arts section of The New York Times, I got that in the newspaper, so let’s all celebrate! As for Schtick or Treat 2018, it …
Norm Macdonald was supposed to go on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon today to promote his new Netflix talk show. But because of what Macdonald told The Hollywood Reporter in an earlier interview that published this morning, that ain’t happening. “Out of sensitivity to our audience and in light …
And how was your Labor Day? The New Yorker Fest announced its star-studded list of attendees for one-on-one talks Oct. 5-7, 2018, and one name stopped several of the stars from attending. Steve Bannon, the co-founder of Cambridge Analytica, the data-mining firm that helped Donald Trump win the White House …
In perhaps an unprecedented move (I’m still waiting for my interns to report back to me!), the hosts of three late-night shows on three different networks joined forces for a singular response to President Donald Trump. Because while we fight over immigration and racism and everything else, the president of …
America has so many problems to deal with, just including new ones created by the Trump Administration, but of course, this guy occupying the White House has a cable-news alert set to anyone besmirching his name, so the unpresident has questioned Jimmy Fallon’s manhood. Yep. This is America. In a …
Jimmy Fallon didn’t surprise students in Parkland, Fla., on Sunday, so much as he made good on a promise he’d made to some of them following a meeting with them during the March For Our Lives protest for gun reform. Fallon showed up on Sunday to deliver a special commencement …
What, or who, could convince Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert to collaborate on a Christmas carol? The “King of All Media,” of course! All hail Howard Stern for this cheeky holiday truce in the late-night TV wars. Roll it! Chorus to the tune of Jingle Bells: We’re all …
Who is the better Jerry Seinfeld: Seinfeld himself, or Jimmy Fallon? Fallon challenged Seinfeld to a “stand-up battle” on the Thanksgiving 2017 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Really more just a chance to hear some old Seinfeld bits, as well as for Fallon to show off his …
Nate Bargatze is Jimmy Fallon’s favorite stand-up comedian, and Bargatze has the Tonight Show credits to back that up. Nate also has gone on tour with Fallon, multiple tours to entertain the troops in Iraq and Kuwait, and has two hit comedy albums to boot: Yelled At By A Clown …
