The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What would happen if you treated your first stand-up comedy performance on The Tonight Show as a double-act delivering an acceptance speech? We found out Friday night when Kate Berlant and John Early went meta, getting distracted by the moment and by each other to talk about the moment rather than …
When was the last time you saw a comedian who’s part Native American and part African American performing on TV? When was the last time you saw a woman of any color performing on The Tonight Show, period? Please allow me to introduce you to Candice Thompson, who made her …
In a conversation celebrating Tom Brokaw’s 50-year career with NBC News, Jon Stewart told the veteran newscaster that social media has “democratized abuse.” More specifically, here’s the exchange: JON STEWART: Social media, I think, has democratized abuse. As well as, brought community. You’ve seen so many technological advances, has there …
A few minutes after Donald J. Trump took the inaugural oath to become our 45th president of the United States, Saturday Night Live writer Katie Rich mocked the president’s youngest child, writing on Twitter that 10-year-old “Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter.” By Saturday, Rich was gone from …
Matt Iseman was a jock when I first knew him as a college classmate of mine at Princeton. After graduation, Matt went to med school to become a doctor, only to diagnosis himself as a comedian. Since then, he has shared an Emmy win for the cable show, Clean House, …
Before IFC’s Portlandia, and before NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Fred Armisen showed up on your TV screens in unusual ways and sometimes even without credit. Armisen performed a number of short videos for HBO in the late 1990s, for instance, that ran as interstitials between movies. He’d take one of …
Jimmy Fallon introduced Nick Thune on Thursday night’s episode of The Tonight Show as one of his favorite comedians, and also reminded viewers that Thune has a new stand-up comedy special (Good Guy) on “NBC’s digital comedy platform,” Seeso.com. And if that wasn’t direct enough for you, Thune also wore …
Dan Levy has a new stand-up special out on Seeso called Lion, in which he learns which animal he acts like in real life. Which may change depending upon how he has to react as a husband and father now. Levy joked about parenting and marriage in Tuesday’s episode of …
Late Night with Seth Meyers debuted on Feb. 24, 2014, but the Meyers edition of NBC’s late-late talk show — following in the footsteps of David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon — didn’t start to find its own footing until he first ditched the stand-up monologue to open the …
In a major vote of confidence, NBC is inviting you to take a closer look at Seth Meyers on New Year’s Eve. No, not Meyers’s role in the film, New Year’s Eve, but a special primetime Saturday edition of his Late Night talker. The Late Night with Seth Meyers New …
