The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Dating is difficult. Especially when you realize how many men are faking it ’til they make it with a woman, as Fahim Anwar observed in his stand-up performance on Tuesday’s Conan. He joked that real dating isn’t like what you see in a romantic comedy — unless and except for …
Jason Jones and Samantha Bee left Comedy Central in 2015 for a package deal with TBS — Bee is hosting her own weekly late-night talk show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, which premieres on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016; she also co-created The Detour, starring her husband Jones leading a family …
“I wear a lot of flannel, ’cause I’m pretty butch for a lady.” Or because he’s the weak paper towel version of Brawny. Find out more about young Brad Wenzel from his first stand-up comedy performance on Conan. He was a finalist for the “Conan Just Sayin Contest” back in …
When Roy Wood Jr. started interning in morning radio and working in his native Birmingham, Ala., he initially thought he might be the next Ricky Smiley. Wood’s determination and hustle, as well as his talent for prank calls, led him on a slightly different path slowly but surely up the …
“Yeah, that was a weird thing,” Zach Galifianakis told Conan O’Brien, almost two years after he had sat down with President Barack Obama for an installment of his Funny or Die series, Between Two Ferns. “I went to the White House before we shot it,” Galifianakis told O’Brien on Tuesday’s …
When Conan O’Brien traveled to Qatar with Joining Forces to perform for the American military stationed there, he not only came with First Lady Michelle Obama and Grace Potter, but also brought a few comedians. Among them: John Mulaney, and two of his Conan writers, Laurie Kilmartin and Brian Kiley. …
Check out the nervous energy Marques Ray brings to his first performance on Conan on Thursday night, which feeds into giggles from the audience for his jokes, crowd work, characters and celebrity impersonations. That Johnny Depp, in particular, man. It makes for the fun kind of showcase set that you …
Joe List has a sweet fiance, but perhaps there’s a better way for her to let him know he’s not hot? Don’t worry, though. He’ll never cheat on her. For the obvious reasons, and also for several funny ones, which List explained in his performance Monday night on Conan. Roll …
Rory Scovel’s first stand-up hour special, The Charleston Special, takes the comedian back home to familiar ground in South Carolina, but asks viewers to go somewhere new and different in Seeso, the new streaming Video On Demand subscription platform that went live yesterday. Seeso is available online at Seeso.com or …
TBS stepped up to the plate at the winter meetings of the TV Critics Association (TCA) with a brand-new look and feel, and plenty of new series to back that up. Newest among them? A 10-episode order for People of Earth, which stars Wyatt Cenac as a journalist who investigates …
