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Daniel Sloss returned to Conan again — and on Monday night’s show, Sloss wondered how Brits can get condoms for free, but if a woman wants a tampon, she has to pay for it, and then gets taxed upon it as a “luxury item.” And you thought your health-care system …
Tom Papa returned to Conan on Thursday, and said if you really want to be scared about where the world is heading, just think about where all of the adults went. “Everybody’s a baby now.” Adult coloring books? Therapy dogs? Then again, Papa has two daughters, and realizes they’ve begun …
Mark Normand had sex on the brain for his latest stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan. Find out what he’d like to tell the ladies, and what he’s learned from having a gay roommate. Roll the clip!
Matt Donaher is back on Conan, but this time, he and his girlfriend are going to have a baby. Pretty exciting! Narrowing down the name can be trying, too. But if you think he’s his worst critic, then you haven’t heard the heckles he receives from his therapist. Or from …
Gad Elmaleh is still learning how to deliver comedy in English, as he explained in his American TV debut doing such on Wednesday’s Conan. The French Moroccan star is touring America, and he jokes about visiting the Statue of Liberty and trying to rent an apartment in New York City. …
“If you’re yelling at somebody for doing pot wrong, I feel like you’re also doing pot wrong.” So sayeth Myq Kaplan in his most recent stand-up performance on Conan, so let it be done. Or undone. Kaplan explains how you cannot judge an entire genre by one thing, and even springs …
Steve Gillespie comes to us from Minnesota by way of Wisconsin, or is it the other way around? Either way, Gillespie made his first stand-up appearance on Conan on Monday. He jokes that he’d much prefer being a step-dad to someone than being the dad. He doesn’t even have his own …
Forget fire in the belly. Samantha Bee has something stirring in her “swamp.” Her word. Not mine. What already has set Bee and her weekly TBS series apart from the late-night talkers, variety hosts and satirists out there? Her passion. From standing front and center to face her audience instead …
CBS announced a new showrunner today for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, moving Eric Licht from his executive producer gig on the morning shift for CBS This Morning to help steer the late-night ship into more comfortable long-term territory. Before you rush to write your hot-take thinkpieces about how …
Hot off his HBO special taping, Quincy Jones remains relatively healthy and in fine form as he performed on Monday’s Conan. Jones joked about fitting in with his white audience and friends by not only attending brunch, but also by writing Yelp reviews about his brunches. He also had some …
