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Blink and you may have missed it last night, but only if your blinks last a New York Minute — because that’s how long it took for America’s Got Talent to show us brief teases of comedians Myq Kaplan and Gary Vider from their auditions this season. Don’t worry. You’ll …
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 …
You know how they say jazz is all about the musical notes that you don’t hear? You don’t know that? Well, now you do. That’s how and why I laughed so much at Myq Kaplan’s performance on Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman. Kaplan has done Letterman, before, and …
Hello, internet people, including whoever put a joke about vegans that I wrote on a butcher shop window. I wrote a joke a few years ago and performed it on Conan in 2012. You can see it at around the 4:00 mark in this clip: A while ago, someone took …
It has been a week since a crowd of thousands near Hartford heckled Dave Chappelle with shouts of appreciation and misbegotten requests, derailing his planned stand-up comedy set, and with it, the end of that night’s Oddball Festival. But oddballs one and all, come with me back a few years, …
Myq Kaplan returned to the Conan program on the TBS last night. Kaplan ponders the idea of a Buddhist extremist, as well as zombie Hitler, time travel, the Back to the Future movies, and of course, Bill Murray. If you feel like you’ve seen this clip before, then perhaps you …
Myq Kaplan returned for another performance last night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. It was Kaplan’s second appearance on the show this month, taped earlier in April when he originally was scheduled to tell jokes but bumped from that night’s telecast due to time constraints. Ferguson’s, not Kaplan’s. …
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 …
Do you know all of the words to your National Anthem? ALL of the words? Could you sing it on cue, let alone on pitch? OK. Now, can you sing the “Comedian’s National Anthem”? Wait. You don’t know that age-old ditty? That’s probably because it’s only a few years old, …
University of Colorado psychology professor Peter McGraw and Denver-based journalist Joel Warner are trying to unlock the formula to funny — what makes something universally funny? — or as they’re calling it, the Humor Code. They’ve explored the impact of Mad Men drinking on an actual NYC ad agency team …
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