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Laurie Kilmartin has a new comedy album out now, “Corset,” and here she was on Thursday’s Late Late Show to share her tips on mothering a teenage boy in the 2020s. For one thing, how to stop him from watching porn! For another, say bye-bye to Google and bring back …
Laurie Kilmartin, stand-up comedian and writer for Conan on TBS, recently lost her mother to COVID-19. Kilmartin live-Tweeted her experience, as she had when her father died from lung cancer a few years earlier. But Kilmartin could spend those final hours with her father by his bedside, in home hospice. …
The Internet’s relentless, rigorous demand for content, combined with show business’s relentless, rigorous desire for cash money, has combined in 2017 to bestow us with a bounty of stand-up comedy hours and variety specials, as well as a rash of rankings by amateur and professional armchair critics alike. My two …
Laurie Kilmartin’s new stand-up album is filled with jokes about her dead dad, as you can see from the title or just listen to find out for yourself. But for her most recent performance on Conan, Kilmartin wanted to crack fun at raising her son as a single mom, and …
Laurie Kilmartin produced one of the best stand-up specials of 2016, “45 Jokes About My Dead Dad,” streaming exclusively on Seeso.com. Kilmartin is a writer on Conan, a former finalist on Last Comic Standing, and the New York Times best-selling author of “Sh*tty Mom.” You can hear her on the …
Fans and friends of Laurie Kilmartin already had read her Twitter account of sitting by her father’s side as he lay dying of lung cancer in the winter of 2014. Kilmartin’s heartbreaking and hilarious 140-character thought process as she coped with her impending loss and her family captivated thousands of …
Jackie Kashian is one of my favorite stand-up comedians to watch live because she knows who she is and makes no apologies for it. That’s also probably why Maria Bamford so much enjoys working with her on the road, and why she’s had a successful podcast for the past decade …
When Conan O’Brien traveled to Qatar with Joining Forces to perform for the American military stationed there, he not only came with First Lady Michelle Obama and Grace Potter, but also brought a few comedians. Among them: John Mulaney, and two of his Conan writers, Laurie Kilmartin and Brian Kiley. …
Laurie Kilmartin writes for Conan and appeared as a finalist four years ago on Last Comic Standing, but seven months ago, Kilmartin’s attention was focused on an audience of one: Her dying father. She channeled her emotions into her Twitter feed @anylaurie16. Tweets like, “Every day, I set a new …
For all the grief I’ve given Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen for airing repeats five nights a week for the past seven years… Our long national nightmare of seeing Harland Williams stuck in his 2007 style are over! Comics Unleashed taped a batch of new episodes last week. Including Williams. …
