The Definitive Guide to Comedy
You cannot ask the crowd how they’re doing and then not let us know the results, Kendrick Lamar? If that’s true, Joe Mande, then which side of the Late Night with Seth Meyers studio audience won the energy wars of Thursday, March 27, 2014? Now if Mande forgets to tell …
Eugene Mirman’s routines have a non sequitur vibe upon first blush, but if you change your focus just a smidge, it all blends together harmoniously. Take Mirman’s performance on Wednesday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. He opens with a bit about an audition scene set in the 1920s — topical …
If it’s too much of a rush to judgment to review Late Night with Seth Meyers after its debut, then how about two weeks later? And yet, here Meyers was with his executive producer Mike Shoemaker on Saturday afternoon at SXSW for a panel “Inside Late Night with Seth Meyers,” …
Michael Che was the first stand-up comedian to perform on Late Night with Seth Meyers, as seen on Friday night’s show. Che’s a writer for Saturday Night Live down the hall, where Meyers was his former boss until just this month. Here’s to happy reunions! Che talked taxes, politics, and …
Seth Meyers still works on the same floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza as Saturday Night Live, but for the first time since 2001, he’s not working on SNL any longer. So it’s not goodbye so much as it is good luck, as his SNL castmates paid tribute to their former …
Seth Meyers didn’t have to look far to find his new Late Night bandleader. Meyers announced Monday afternoon that his longtime fellow former Saturday Night Live castmate Fred Armisen would be in charge of the 8GBand (as he hashtagged it on Twitter). “Fred will curate and lead the band, and …
If you think there’s a lot going on in late-night TV talk in 2014, just wait until you see the humorous convergence taking place the second weekend of March in Austin, Texas. SXSW already announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live will broadcast five shows from the interactive, film and music festival …
Less than one week into 2014 and it’s already a big year for Seth Meyers. The former head writer of Saturday Night Live and soon-to-be former SNL Weekend Update anchor showed us on Sunday that he’s not moving all that far when he takes over Late Night on Feb. 24, …
