The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It has been a while since you saw Stephen Colbert onstage while a stand-up comedian performed on The Late Show. Normally, they’ve filmed stand-ups in separate bunches for a separate audience, then stitched each comedian into an episode when they could schedule them. But Paul Mecurio isn’t any comedian. He’s …
Paul Mecurio is seen every night by audiences of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as he warms them up before the CBS cameras turn on for taping. Mecurio graduated from law school and started out on Wall Street, though, before ever discovering his passions for comedy and getting a big break by selling …
On Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert’s warm-up comic Paul Mecurio received a warm encore of a reception from the audience, and he told them how preparing for a baby is a bit different for parents in New York City than it is elsewhere. Mecurio isn’t so sure …
Paul Mecurio pulled double-duty again on Friday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, not only warming up the crowd before the taping, but also performing a stand-up set to close out the show. Mecurio joked about being that guy that you can’t possibly imagine having a kid but has one, and …
Audiences at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert see Paul Mecurio every night, but usually only before the cameras start rolling, since Mecurio is the show’s audience warm-up comedian. On Wednesday night’s episode, though, Colbert booked him to perform during the show, too. So the audience greeted Mecurio with a …
There’s a nine-year-old boy in the audience, and that throws our host off until he realizes the boy is the son of Paul Mecurio, who has returned for his second set of the day. Mecurio is back to work the crowd, and a young Indian man beats him to the …
The voice of Rachel Feinstein’s mother still would be haunting me, if not for Paul Mecurio, who in his first 10 minutes onstage has proceeded to yell at most of the remaining audience members and even at me. He thought I was the Guinness World Records rep. When he found …
