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Lenny Marcus performed Friday night for his third time as a stand-up comedian on Late Show with David Letterman, and the third time actually is charming if you watched the portion of the show before Marcus appeared onstage. As soon as Marcus switches gears in this set to mock vegans, …
Forgive David Letterman for not nailing the exact sequence of events that transpired during Jenny Slate’s tenure at Saturday Night Live. For whatever happened back then eventually led to a wedding weekend with Slate, her husband Dean Fleischer-Camp, and a voice that launched videos that launched a children’s book series …
Simon Amstell returned to Late Show with David Letterman on Friday night, a little older, a little less cheeky? That’s his worry. Well, one of his worries. Amstell jokes about his fragile ego and having to live in competition with others for happiness. Perhaps a trip to Peru is in …
Andrew Norelli was back on the Late Show on Friday night, tanned, rested and ready to tell us what he has learned about the economy from the French. The French smoke a lot, don’t they, still? Smokers in America, meanwhile, have some strange reactions to the rules we’ve enacted toward …
“I really don’t want to hear what most people want to say.” So sayeth Jerry Seinfeld, 60-year-old gabillionaire comedian, to multi-millionaire TV host David Letterman, on Thursday night’s episode of Late Show with David Letterman. Seinfeld sticks to his tradition of wanting to perform stand-up before sitting down for panel …
Did you know Jim Gaffigan tried out for the Indianapolis Colts this summer? Yeah, well. Not a spoiler alert, but Gaffigan did not make the 2014 Colts team, or even the practice squad. But he did eat some donuts, more doughnuts, exchanged words with Andrew Luck and said Pat McAfee …
How many times has Jake Johannsen performed on Late Show with David Letterman at this point? Well, how would we know if it’s really Johannsen? That’s a good point, now that the stand-up comedian has confessed that his social media skills conflict with his insecurities about his online history to …
Moody McCarthy may not be directly related to me, but he is one of my neighbors in the funniest neighborhood in NYC, and like me, he’s also willing to joke upfront about how he’s not hip. On this return performance to Late Show with David Letterman on Friday night, McCarthy …
Almost every comedian I know shared a photo and/or an anecdote about Joan Rivers tonight in the wake of her death at 81, a week after she suffered cardiac arrest and stopped breathing during throat surgery. (Read the obituary of Joan Rivers here) Looking at all of these photos shows …
For millions of students and teachers, it’s time to go back to school this week. For a handful of lucky comedy students, it’s also the start of a very specialized schooling, as Joe Toplyn leads a new group of would-be TV writers in his Comedy Writing for Late-Night TV class …
