The Definitive Guide to Comedy
You may have seen Erik Charles Nielsen before on your TV from time to time as one of the other students at Greendale Community College on NBC’s Community, or earlier this year as a Twitter tormenter of Marc Maron on IFC’s Maron. Here’s something you hadn’t seen until now: Erik …
Myq Kaplan returned to the Conan program on the TBS last night. Kaplan ponders the idea of a Buddhist extremist, as well as zombie Hitler, time travel, the Back to the Future movies, and of course, Bill Murray. If you feel like you’ve seen this clip before, then perhaps you …
In Los Angeles and New York City, you’re much more likely to walk into a restaurant or other business and find a wall of headshots of the famous people who have eaten there or purchased goods and services therein. How do you add your headshot to that wall? Tig Notaro …
Jen Kirkman returned to Conan last night for another stand-up performance. The last time she performed on Conan, she was married. Not so, now. So Kirkman brings us all up to speed on what dating is like for her these days, as well as a valuable lesson in hairstyling for …
Jay Larson was back on Conan on Monday night for another stand-up performance. For his next trick, Larson shared with the audience his experience accepting a call on his cell phone from a number he didn’t know. What happened next? Not your ordinary wrong number. Larson explains his new business …
Shane Mauss returned to Conan last night, and got a little political in his stand-up. If, by political, you mean finding funny ways to explain why his racist coworkers don’t understand why having Mexicans speak English is even worse for said racists, and why as a straight man, he’d be …
Deon Cole is the newest member of Team Coco to earn his own weekly TV show about pop culture, as he’ll be hosting Deon Cole’s Black Box. It debuts Monday June 10, 2013, on TBS. Here’s a sneak peek inside his box!
Bengt Washburn performed on Conan last night. But a few years ago, Washburn’s comedy career was on hold. With a wife in the Air Force, the 2001 winner of the San Francisco Comedy Competition left comedy and American gigs behind to join her in Germany when the military transferred her …
Has it really been 25 years since The Simpsons rejuvenated the idea of animated TV in primetime? Well, yes and no. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson first emerged as shorts on the fledgling FOX network during The Tracey Ullman Show in April 1987 — 26 years years ago. …
For his next episode of his spin-off video podcast, Serious Jibber-Jabber With Conan O’Brien, O’Brien reunites with his former co-workers from the writers’ room of The Simpsons to discuss the early days of the FOX animated classic. Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen, and Jeff Martin talk about comedy, fatherhood and how …
