The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If all you know about Dan Mintz is that he voices Tina on Bob’s Burgers, then congratulations on that much. But you really should know more. Such as this: Dan Mintz is a wonderfully clever deadpan deliverer of one-liners. He has a half-hour Comedy Central in his past which you …
Jeff Caldwell returned for another stand-up performance on last Friday’s episode of Late Show with David Letterman. This time around, Caldwell describes what it’s like as a comedian married to an artist when the comedian is considered the main breadwinner, living in New Jersey, the use of reservoir water and …
Jerry Seinfeld returned to Late Show with David Letterman tonight, but on this trip, Letterman turned the tables on Seinfeld, asking when he might be invited as a guest on Jerry’s webseries for Crackle, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Well. Would he? Could he? Should he? Seinfeld joked about Letterman …
Has any stand-up comedian performed more stand-up sets on David Letterman’s shows than Jake Johannsen? Think about it for a moment. Johannsen has performed more than 40 times on Letterman’s late-night shows, dating back to his NBC Late Night overnights in the 1980s. For his first appearance on Late Show …
Nick Griffin returned to Late Show with David Letterman on Friday night’s show, with an introduction fit for one of Dave’s favored stand-up comedians. What wisdom does Griffin have to share with us this time? That depends upon how old you are, and how you feel about work, sleep, and …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Gravitas Ventures acquired the Eddie Pepitone documentary, The Bitter Buddha, out of Slamdance yesterday. The film directed by Steven Feinartz will screen in cinemas on Feb. 15, and if not near you then, then on your TVs via VOD on Feb. 19. CBS …
Brian Kiley definitely has become one of David Letterman’s favorite stand-up comedians. You could sense that not only from the sheer number of times Kiley has returned to perform on Late Show with David Letterman, but also in the sincerity of Letterman’s introduction, which referenced Kiley’s move to California (where …
Finding a sincere, sit-down interview with David Letterman is about as rare as finding one with the late Johnny Carson. Which, if you follow Letterman’s career as closely as he has followed Carson’s, makes perfect sense. Almost. But this year, the Kennedy Center Honors have honored David Letterman — the …
Carmen Lynch won the inaugural She-Devil Comedy Festival contest a couple of weeks ago in Long Island City, where I was one of the judges, and Friday night, Lynch made her debut on Late Show with David Letterman! Coincidence? No. But I cannot take credit for it. Lynch is and …
Myq Kaplan pulled off quite the daily/nightly double on Friday night. Early Friday evening, Kaplan opened for Aziz Ansari’s sold-out show at the Apollo Theater in Harlem; later that night, Kaplan performed on CBS on your TV dial at Late Show with David Letterman (previously taped on Thursday). For this …
