The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers, Michelle Wolf already has enjoyed plenty of chances to shine onscreen in sketches and segments, particularly as Grown-Up Annie and as Cassandra in the game show, “Fake or Florida.” On Thursday night’s show, Wolf got her first opportunity to perform stand-up, …
“Don’t just show up off the street and think you’re going to come in and do some jokes. Not happening.” Wanda Sykes said nobody wants to watch a true open-call audition process for stand-up comedians on Last Comic Standing — at least not anymore, as this eighth season was invitation-only, …
Myq Kaplan puts enough thought into his jokes that he’s thought out the arguments and counterarguments, and those are all part of the jokes, too. In this set from Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, Kaplan fills us in on Facebook’s thoughts on adding a second button as an alternative …
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Nick Turner on Late Night with Seth Meyers! I knew it the whole time. But what about the guy who didn’t? Turner jokes about that guy, as well as how his weight loss delights friends and confuses strangers. Roll the clip!
Ali Wong has some good news bad news happening in her personal life — on the one hand, she recently got engaged; on the other, her fiance has a gluten allergy. And ’til death do you part means forever because Wong is Asian. As she explained Thursday night in this …
If at first your Saturday Night Live sketch does not succeed in making the cut for broadcast on NBC, try, try again. Or wait until you leave the show and your former colleague and head writer has his own platform — in which case, here’s Late Night with Seth Meyers …
Gary Gulman has a way of hitting my comedy sweet spot every time, what with his pop-cultural references and combining the high, low and middlebrows with his six-foot-everything observations on life as it is now and how it was when we were younger. In Gulman’s performance on Thursday night’s Late …
Nikki Glaser broke up with her boyfriend but they’re back together again, so you can all breathe a little bit easier now. Because the alternative would be porn? No. Not that. Anything but that. Glaser explains in this stand-up performance on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Hit the showers! …
Blink and you missed it! It doesn’t have a premiere date on FOX yet, but Mulaney, the starring sitcom vehicle for stand-up comedian John Mulaney, debuted the first clip from its first six episodes on Thursday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC. Meyers introduced Mulaney with a clip …
Seth Meyers tells NBC viewers each weeknight to stay tuned for Carson Daly’s even later overnight show, but what really happens at the end of Late Night with Seth Meyers? This cute video imagines how quickly and how radically the inmates take over the asylum that is the Late Night …
