The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Add another late-night TV show to your late-night TV viewing rounds, as The Pete Holmes Show has announced its lineups for the first two weeks of broadcasts at midnight Mondays-Thursdays on TBS, as well as the first three weeks of tapings. Set your TVs, DVRs and all reminders that mark …
Aparna Nancherla is a writer/performer on FXX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, but on Monday night, she had the night off from her day job so she could perform her night job on another late-night TV talk show on another network. You dig? You dig. Nancherla was on Conan. …
Have you ever asked someone “How are you?” only to immediately regret finding out the answer? Erin Foley feels your pain. In this stand-up performance on Thursday night’s Conan on TBS, Foley also fills you in on how she’s doing, which includes a lot of fun or not-so-fun facts about …
Mike Lawrence returned to perform stand-up again on Conan last night. Did you know that Star Wars is a completely different movie for you if you’ve watched Spaceballs first? Lawrence knows how that feels. And he shared his “strong nerd opinions” about that, Ben Affleck as Batman, the Hulk Hogan …
If you tuned in last night to Conan’s special Breaking Bad episode, then perhaps you noticed that TBS offered what the network called a “Sneak Pete” at its upcoming late-night series, The Pete Holmes Show. And what a delightfully odd duck of a preview it was. Roll the clip! Fans …
Louis C.K. is in Los Angeles for the upcoming Emmy Awards on Sunday night, but he certainly got into the spirit of #tbt last night as he and Conan O’Brien went total Throwback Thursday on Conan by reminiscing about their first days and nights on Late Night with Conan O’Brien …
In case you haven’t been following Sammy Obeid for the past 999 days, he’s been performing at least once a night every one of those days and nights. And last night, Obeid made his debut on Conan. It’s the latest twist and turn in Sammy Obeid’s 1,000 Days of Comedy …
What’s in a phrase? For Tony Deyo on Monday night’s Conan, the phrase is the thing. It’s the premise. As he told the audience, some of those “Books For Dummies” might be exactly that, while an Apple Store “Genius Bar” might not seem like such a bright idea at the mall. …
If you’re black-tie formal, does that then make your stand-up performance that much classier? You could just ask Rory Scovel, who donned a tuxedo and had a friend (Adam McFarland) on the piano accompany him for his set on Tuesday night’s episode of Conan. His routine reminded me of a …
Kurt Braunohler loves to inject fun into the lives of strangers. We saw that this spring in the skies above Los Angeles when he hired a plane to write an emergency message as a goof; and we saw that again last night on Conan as Braunohler offered up a few …
