The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comix may be no more, but the comedian who co-launched that former New York City comedy club is still performing. Hey, that’s something Bobby Collins has in common with Jimmy Fallon. Sort of. You know. Speaking of which… Bobby Collins dropped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. Because …
Are Fallon and Higgins our generation’s Abbott and Costello? Who is Billy Crystal? A.D. Miles is doing what? I don’t know…Jerry Seinfeld? What is one of the most famous comedic dialogues of all-time? No, what is A.D. Miles, head writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Answers to all of …
Neal Brennan restored order to the universe on his second appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, by revealing the relative order of things. Black people are much more relaxed than white people, and women are much more determined to plan everything out, but for what purpose? And here’s another …
Stop. Look. Listen. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon sets itself apart from the other late-night TV talk shows by all of the ways that it’s NOT a talk show. Last night’s show gave anyone a reason to feel happy about the holidays, as Jimmy Fallon and The Roots offered up …
Chris Tucker joked this past week that his new stand-up comedy tour is called his “IRS Tour,” a reference to his owing the Internal Revenue Service more than $11 million. Tucker told Jimmy Fallon that he had taped a new stand-up comedy film last week in his hometown of Atlanta …
For someone who is one of the biggest stand-up comedy draws in the world, Russell Peters doesn’t appear all that often on the American late-night talk show circuit. Peters recently did Jimmy Kimmel Live for the first time in seven years, and last night performed for the first time on Late …
If you watch Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with any regularity, then you may have seen Tom Shillue multiple times without even knowing it. Shillue is quite the barbershop singer, in addition to perfecting a comedic storytelling style. On Wednesday night’s Late Night, Shillue discusses just how white his upbringing …
Inside and outside 30 Rockefeller Center, Jimmy Fallon and his Late Night staff produced their Monday episode a little bit earlier than usual. They could do so because they didn’t have a live studio audience. They had to do so because hurricane-force winds and storm surges from post-tropical storm Sandy …
As the advancing winds and rain of Hurricane Sandy began hitting New York City and the Tri-State area on Monday, the storm forced the cancellation of many live comedy shows, Broadway productions, and TV tapings — among them, the first-ever Brooklyn taping for Jimmy Kimmel Live, as well as regularly …
The final presidential debate of the 2012 campaign ended at 11 p.m. Eastern time Monday in Boca Raton, Fla. Meanwhile, up the East Coast in New York City, the writing staffs of four late-night TV comedy/variety shows already were beginning to pitch hundreds upon hundreds of jokes, video mash-ups and …
