The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When have you ever seen comedians on TV on consecutive nights joking about growing up Muslim or Arab in America? You have now, thanks to Conan and the New York Comedy Festival’s “Comics To Watch.” After showcasing Dina Hashem on Tuesday night, Team Coco welcomed the debut Wednesday of Khalid …
We’re seeing the promise of the TBS Comics to Watch showcase from the 2017 New York Comedy Festival come to fruition, as Dina Hashem joins a few others from that showcase to get a TV credit on Conan. Hashem joked about growing up Arab in New Jersey, what it means …
Tom Thakkar made a memorable debut on Conan on Wednesday night, but would you have remembered him as much if he went by his birth name, Tom Brady? Thakkar jokes about changing his name, as well as traveling by Spirit Airlines. If he performs on more late-night TV shows, perhaps …
Ivan Decker feels out of place at the gym, not because he’s Canadian, but mostly because it seems to him as though everyone else has it all figured out already. In his performance on Monday’s Conan, Decker also mocked the concept of running for pleasure, and re-evalutes the concept of …
Matt Braunger’s routine about an elevator ride from hell has become the first animated Snapchat show for TBS and Conan’s new series, Team Coco’s Comedy Club. New animated stand-up routines will debut Sundays throughout the winter, developed specifically for Snapchat’s mobile platform. You’ll be able to catch them on Snapchat from …
Jon Dore has pulled stunts on Conan before, but nothing like this. Here he was, Thursday night at the Apollo in NYC, in a centaur costume with an accomplice, pretending to be preparing for a Broadway show. And that’s not even the half of it. Roll the clip.
On this Throwback Thursday, comedian Jack Whitehall feels wistfully nostalgic for the old Nokia 3310 mobile phone. Although in his performance on Conan in New York City, Whitehall really wanted to thank America for Trump, if only to make Brexit seem less ridiculous. Nothing seems less ridiculous to Whitehall, though, …
All week back in Harlem at the Apollo, Team Coco is celebrating the New York Comedy Festival and the TBS partnership with it by featuring a stand-up comedian on each episode. Monday: Former Last Comic Standing winner Rod Man. He joked about how differently you’ll react in a crosswalk when …
Some people hibernate for winter. Beth Stelling likes to wrap herself in a meat coat, but living in Los Angeles makes it difficult to know when to start and stop meating, as she explained on Wednesday’s Conan. Stelling also joked about how 60something women like her mom have difficulties operating …
“It’s never going to end. Never!” That’s Joel Kim Booster on Conan on Halloween, comparing 2017 to a horror movie that you think you’ve survived, only to find out it’s still not over yet. Roll the clip!
