The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Beth Stelling has made choices in her life. We’ve all made choices. You know we all can make choices, right? For Stelling, it’s leaving Ohio, touring the country telling jokes, maintaining a long-distance relationship, and telling really great jokes. This set on Thursday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show …
Gary Vider made his TV debut last night on Conan. Perhaps this will help his financial situation a little bit, or at least enough so he won’t have to come up with any more creative ways to ask his parents for money. And that, in turn, would help his dating …
While Keenen Ivory Wayans passes judgment on comedians on NBC’s reboot of Last Comic Standing, his younger brother, Marlon, is ready to hold court on his own televised comedy competition. And now we know the 10 comedians competing on the new TBS series, Funniest Wins, which premieres at 10 p.m. (Eastern/Pacific) …
TBS announced today that it would not be renewing The Pete Holmes Show for a third cycle — a 13-week run ends on June 18, 2014, with all of the remaining episodes already pre-taped. It debuted last fall on a seven-week trial basis. The half-hour mix of monologue, sketches, edited …
Joe DeRosa moved out to Los Angeles to work as a writer on The Pete Holmes Show, and on Thursday night’s program, he appeared once more onscreen — but this time in his capacity as a stand-up. Living and working in Hollywood has really changed DeRosa. Not really. But really, …
“This job looks easy,” Norm Macdonald told Conan O’Brien, gesturing to O’Brien’s role behind the desk as host of Conan. “Do you have the chops to do it?” O’Brien asked Wednesday night. “I’ve been studying it like a Jesuit,” Macdonald said of the tasks required to host a late-night TV …
How about Mrs. Doubtfire sequel? Forget about that. How about that Mike Recine? Here he is from Tuesday night’s show on Conan, making his debut. Funny stuff. Love that joke about his hot teacher getting married and changing her name (do we all have one of those growing up?!), as …
Dan Telfer knows dinosaurs. How well does he know dinosaurs? Well enough to challenge the audience on The Pete Holmes Show to name the best, baddest extinct dinosaur of all time, only to have him tell them why they’re most likely, probably wrong. By the way, Telfer said this via …
At today’s Upfronts presentation for TBS and TNT, the cable networks announced they’re keeping Team Coco in business through 2018 with another three-year contract extension for Conan. And throughout Burbank’s Team Coco HQ, and everywhere fans of Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter and the rest of the team exist, late-night TV …
Ryan Hamilton knows what he looks like, you guys. And as a stand-up comedian, Hamilton knows to come out swinging and takes the first shot at himself, and then some, referring to his permanent smile and how it makes him look more like a comedy club logo than an actual …
