The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Work hard, play hard, joke hard? That seems to be the motto for Allen Strickland Williams, who made his TV debut on Wednesday night’s episode of Conan. Williams is one-fourth of the sketch group WOMEN, but here, he stands alone, telling one-liners. Roll the clip!
BAZINGA! TBS has a new president and chief creative officer in Kevin Reilly (recently head of FOX), but it’s an old warhorse of a sitcom that has put TBS ahead of everyone else in basic cable — including its own original series — in terms of viewers. The Big Bang …
Online, this clever kid from New Hampshire is SimplyMattD. But that simply won’t do when you’re making your national TV debut, so Conan O’Brien introduced him to you on your tubes under his real name, Matt Donaher. Donaher’s set examined his lifelong difficulties with women, and a slightly related bit …
The “Greatest Generation” won a world war, had to drink pulp in their orange juice and couldn’t download a book into their hands within seconds. So how great were they, really? One of my faves, Gary Gulman, performed on Tuesday’s Conan and put all of that and some more technological …
Working the road as a stand-up comedian often entails early-morning promotions the day of or before your weekend club and theater appearances, both on local radio and TV stations. It can be fun. It can be terrible. It can be terribly fun. Especially if you want to take advantage of …
Dan St. Germain showed up to perform in a suit on Monday’s Conan, which is an odd look for this man at this location. As he readily acknowledged. His ex-girlfriend left him to work for Google, which is awkward for all of us. I wonder what his future self would tell …
Pete Correale is no spring chicken. And yet, on Wednesday’s Conan, he let us in on the fact that he’s married with a very young daughter. And so fatherhood begins. His family lives in the kind of small town where everybody likes to go fishing. But it’s not the kind …
Is Nick Griffin feeling depressed, or is this just a natural state of being once you hit your 40s? On Tuesday night’s Conan, Griffin isn’t quite sure. He does know now that if it’s not sex, money, booze, or dessert, then he’s not having any of it. And don’t try …
We all had the opportunity the past few years to see how well Nasim Pedrad could impersonate and mock Kim Kardashian on Saturday Night Live, but if you blinked, then you may have missed your chance to see Pedrad’s impersonation of comedian Aziz Ansari. Never fear. When Pedrad showed up …
Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome, aka Garfunkel and Oates, performed their song, “The Fade Away,” on Thursday night’s Conan. It’s about how some of their female friends break up with boyfriends via passive aggression. Roll it. Micucci and Lindhome are enjoying their first season playing Garfunkel and Oates on IFC, …
