The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Team Coco has a new installment in its fan art gallery, Coco MoCa: An infographic illustrating how to duplicate Conan O’Brien’s classic “string dance” in seven steps. You see it above. You try it out. You need help, you consult the video archives to watch Conan in action from the …
Daniel Sloss is 23. And Scottish. And acknowledges his boyish looks up front. On Thursday night’s Conan, Sloss also tried to let us know that he knows what it’s like to be a parent, to have your child go missing, and that he hasn’t always been the best boyfriend. But …
Jay Larson and fellow comedian Sean Patton are on a journey to find and drink their way through the Best Bars in America for the new Esquire cable channel. You can see that Thursday night. But first, Larson was on Conan on Monday night, where he regaled the audience with …
Interviewing your boss is weird. Interviewing your boss on TV is weirder. Interviewing your boss on TV when your boss has his own TV show interviewing other people is the weirdest. But when you’re Pete Holmes and you’ve built a following outside your stand-up comedy through a podcast called “You …
The 1980s were alive and lip-synched Monday night on Conan, as favored musical comedic guest Reggie Watts was on hand for something, well, completely different from his usual completely different performances. For one thing, he wasn’t alone onstage. Watts had The Dance Cartel with him to shake, shimmy and move …
Sean Patton has a younger brother. A much younger brother — 14 years younger. On Tuesday night’s Conan, Patton told a story of taking his brother to see Men in Black when the brother was only 4, and how his homemade neuralyzer would have a long-lasting impact on their brotherhood. …
America the beautiful is so dreamy that we have more food and water than some other countries only can dream of…as Adam Yenser explained on Wednesday night’s Conan. Speaking of excess food, Yenser wonders why Applebee’s menu items sound like types of diarrhea. Just imagine, he could have eaten at …
We first saw Conan O’Brien as a bona fide late-night TV talk-show host on NBC in September 1993. It’s never too late to celebrate a 20th anniversary, though, is it? That’s what Team Coco has decided, kicking off a weeklong celebration Monday night on TBS with plenty of clip packages from the …
In case you missed it, TBS unveiled a game-show concept last night that actually fits the cable network’s motto of “very funny.” In fact, Michael Ian Black and D.L. Hughley are so refreshingly and wickedly witty, slinging barbs at each other throughout the half-hour, that the actual “game show” element …
Sam Simmons put on one of the more gleeful and dizzyingly giddy one-man shows I’ve seen at Montreal’s Just For Laughs. Naturally, Simmons also is one of those Australian comedians who made a name for himself in the U.K. before putting himself before American audiences now. Then again, nature abhors …
