The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Alingon Mitra made a big splash last summer on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and for this performance on Monday night’s episode of Conan, he once more tells us about his own issues with gay athletes and gay marriage. Which isn’t so much first-hand. Then again, he doesn’t know why people …
Simon Amstell returned to Conan on Wednesday night’s show to report that he’s in a great relationship with his current boyfriend. The only potential downsides to that? What didn’t happen in his previous relationships, and what’s happening in his dreams. Amstell is on tour, and will hit up some American …
The cowardly massacre of 12 people, including cartoonists at Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a police officer and bystanders, made all of us in the comedy community pause to reflect on the nature of free expression and the importance of civility amid chaos. Some joined massive demonstrations in Paris, New …
Michael Palascak vows to tell his future children better bedtime stories than his mom told him when he was a kid. As the comedian explained in his stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan, Palasack still enjoys going home to visit his parents, though, wherein he learns all of the various parking …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
People were going Hollywood long before Bing Crosby starred in the 1933 film musical Going Hollywood. Certainly, though, countless unknowns have packed their bags and moved to Los Angeles in the years and decades since then, hoping for show business to discover them and make them a star! New York …
Sebastian Maniscalco and his wife have different ways of dealing with a wild opossum in their yard. Same goes for squirrels, even! Let him explain in this stand-up set from Thursday night’s Conan. You can find a full hour where that came from in Maniscalco’s latest stand-up special, “Aren’t You …
Mo Mandel returned for another stand-up performance Wednesday night on Conan, and if you think Mandel has gotten older since then, so have you and everyone else. Mandel wants you to know about his dad, though, who’s now 70 years old. If you think that’s something, though, just listen to …
In case you missed it Monday night, D.J. Demers crossed the border from Canada to make his American TV debut on Conan. Demers has done plenty of TV in Canada before, but you might not know much about him here in the States. So here’s one thing to know: Demers …
Forrest Shaw has grown “taco tits” since moving from Miami to Los Angeles, thanks to all of the food trucks. No thanks to organic food, which is too expensive. As he notes: “Why does organic food cost more? Don’t they do nothing to it?” And yet, as he explains on his …
