The Definitive Guide to Comedy
On Monday, Mel Brooks joined the select group of movie stars who have immortalized their handprints and footprints in the cement outside the iconic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Then Brooks told Conan O’Brien how he successfully snuck in an 11th finger — six fingers instead of five on his …
Almost every comedian I know shared a photo and/or an anecdote about Joan Rivers tonight in the wake of her death at 81, a week after she suffered cardiac arrest and stopped breathing during throat surgery. (Read the obituary of Joan Rivers here) Looking at all of these photos shows …
Roy Wood Jr. is somewhere en route to Moab, Utah, on a camping trip that’ll take him and his friends on a 100-mile boat tour south on down the Colorado River into Canyonlands and Glen Canyon toward the Grand Canyon. But a couple of days ago, Wood was on the …
“So, I was just fired from Saturday Night Live.” How’s that for an opening line to your stand-up comedy set on the TV? But wait. Brooks Wheelan followed up that salvo on Tuesday’s Conan with this: “That’s not even the worst thing that happened to me this summer.” Roll the …
Fresh off his performance a few weeks ago at Montreal’s Just For Laughs as a New Face, fresh-faced Hampton Yount made his stand-up debut on Conan Wednesday night. Yount wonders why local TV news anchors use a very specific type of delivery to introduce some stories, lets us know a …
In case you missed it, the other Wayans brother with a televised comedy competition this summer wrapped up its first season last weekend on TBS, crowning Sydney Castillo the winner of Funniest Wins. So he was funniest. That’s how those words work. Castillo takes home $100,000 and a development deal …
I don’t know if Cameron Esposito ever considered calling her upcoming stand-up album Zero Penis Summer, but I’m sure Same Sex Symbol has a certain symmetry and family-friendly appeal when merchandising and marketing, too. In this performance from Thursday’s Conan, you’ll also hear Esposito relay a delightful tale about two …
Here is the Talking Dead spoof you didn’t know you kneaded. Ahem. It’s “Talking Bread,” with your host Chris Hardwick, well, talking bread with guests Andy Daly and Tig Notaro. Thanks, Team Coco? Yes. That’s what this is. Roll the clip!
Sam Morril was on Wednesday night’s Conan, where he’s not worried if you’re place is messy when you’re trying to hook up late at night. Life is messy. So are porn and Facebook, the two main food groups for any comedian? At least for Morril. Which led to an odd …
Carrie Keagan, who was great late in the mornings as host of VH1’s Big Morning Buzz Live from 2011-2013, could, would and perhaps should also be great as host of a late-night TV show. If only the TV networks would give Keagan that chance. Or any lady, for that matter. In …
