The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nikki Glaser doesn’t yet have “baby fever,” as she joked on Friday’s Tonight Show, although the host of Comedy Central’s “Not Safe” is about to become an aunt. Glaser wondered what she should do when her boyfriend gives her the “silent treatment,” and whether allowing other people into their relationship …
Naomi Ekperigin is at a crossroads, ladies and gentlemen. And not because she writes for Broad City. As Ekperigin explained in her stand-up set on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, her real issue lies with her nutrition. If only her TV watching could help her crack the case on …
Tape Face, aka The Boy With Tape On His Face, aka 38-year-old Sam Wills from New Zealand, rode his unique wave of prop comedy, mime and street performance all the way to the stage for the finale of America’s Got Talent 2016 on Tuesday night. To the sounds of “The …
Saturday Night Live has confirmed that it’s adding Melissa Villaseñor and Alex Moffat to the cast as featured players for season 42. I told you over the weekend that they were both finalists for the gig, along with Chris Redd, who had The Lonely Island vouching for him after his breakout …
What happens when comedians sit down with Lorne Michaels remains such an enigma shrouded in mystique that Marc Maron has made it a staple of his popular podcast. In fact, it’s one of the ultimate WTF moments in comedy. Does Lorne outright hire anyone for Saturday Night Live, or does …
Tape Face, aka The Boy with Tape on His Face, is scheduled to launch a European tour next week. But somewhere over the course of the summer, this comedian with the style, charm and antics of a street performer — who delivered the welcoming address to performers this August at …
There will not be a stand-up comedian in the finals of the 2016 season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Teenager Lori Mae Hernandez came up just short, so to speak, this week. Voted out after this week’s semifinal round, in which she joked about how another Laurie Hernandez became much …
Matt Farley has written more than 18,000 songs in the past eight years, but his biggest performance came Tuesday night when Jimmy Fallon took up the “Suggestion Box” offer of a gig by Papa Razzi and the Photogs. So here was Farley performing his song, “Used to be a Pizza …
The Tonight Show under Jimmy Fallon has demonstrated a comforting throwback trend when it comes to stand-up comedy, in allowing or convincing (whatever the case may be) stand-up comedians to actually perform a few minutes onstage proper instead of (but also in addition to) sitting on the panel to chat …
How many stand-up comedians open their sets with operatic singing? Matteo Lane, that’s who. Lane used his vocals to voice his sexuality to his father, as he jokes opening his set Thursday night on Late Night with Seth Meyers. As if you were still questioning him after hearing his voice. …
