The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Dan Naturman returned to Conan on Tuesday night, once more a new uncle, fresh with jokes about how much simpler a job being an uncle is than a father. Especially to just not be bad at it. Naturman also joked about the difference between texting a potential mate and calling …
Noah Gardenswartz‘s biggest week ever kicked off Monday night with an appearance on Conan, where the comedian joked about a subway poet, moving in with his girlfriend, and trying acid for the first time. Gardenswartz has his debut stand-up comedy album coming out this weekend, coinciding with the premiere of …
Not to be confused with the Teen Choice Awards, the TCA Awards handed out over the weekend let us know what TV shows in this “Too Much TV” or “Peak TV” era have captured the hearts and minds of North America’s TV critics. So if you thought your favorite TV …
Matthew Broussard has such good hair, he looks like the bad guy in a 1980s movie. “I get it. I’ve seen mirrors.” So Broussard joked on Monday’s Conan that he had joined a support group for people who peaked in high school. Roll the clip.
Christian Finnegan co-stars in a new series on A&E he created with Sherrod Small called Black and White, where over the course of the first eight episodes, they’ll deconstruct today’s headlines through the humorous prism of race relations. Finnegan and Small cracked wise about less serious matters for years as …
What a master class of a TV stand-up set here, by my friend, Mr. Gary Gulman, on Wednesday’s Conan. Gulman takes the ridiculous notion of a Netflix documentary on the official U.S. Postal Service decision to create two-letter state abbreviations — which isn’t a thing, although it couldn’t dare compare …
Aparna Nancherla returned to Conan the other night, and she has a problem with pills. Well, not so much the pills, but how it looks if you happen to drop them on the floor or street. That’s very problematic. Perhaps she’d be helped by trying a different dating website. Or …
Rhea Butcher has twice as much fun explaining the irony of her last name to audiences, not only because she has been a vegetarian since before she was born, but also because she is a lesbian. Wordplay. You get it. Prophecy fulfilled?! Butcher, in her debut on Thursday’s Conan, also …
Joel Kim Booster made his Conan debut on Wednesday, and explained what it was like growing up as an adopted Korean baby in the Midwest U.S. in the 1980s. For instance: “I knew I was gay before I knew I was Asian.” He also reports that the Midwest sensibilities can be …
Fun fact about Doug Smith: His great-great-great grandfather was Ulysses S. Grant. Funnier fact about Smith: Monday night was his debut on Conan, and Smith could find ways to poke fun at how he doesn’t measure up to his famous lineage, as well as how his father lost an eye …
