Conan O’Brien’s high-school letter to E.B. White
by Conan O’Brien graduated from Brookline High School in 1981. As a junior, the teenager who was not yet a beloved TV writer and late-night host …
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Enjoy this pitch perfect 30 For 30 treatment of “The Karate Kid” #TBT
If you haven’t yet treated yourself to the first season of Cobra Kai on YouTube, better get to it before season two drops next week. …
Late-night TV election sketches brought back Borat, Dr. Evil and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
One of the odder aspects of this year’s Election Day madness, and there were many odd things to choose from, was seeing so many old …
Listen to The History of Standup as told by Wayne Federman and friends
You want to get your TBTs on in a very comedy way? Starting this week, your ear holes can deliver the history of comedy into …
Jack Black and Richard Linklater on their unlikely partnership on 2003’s feel-good hit, School of Rock
Scott Rudin needed to persuade both star Jack Black and director Richard Linklater that Linklater was the right choice to direct 2003’s film, School of …
Watch Billy Crystal race David Letterman in a classic “Battle of the Network Stars” obstacle course
Late-night TV talk show hosts love digging up old clips from a celebrity guest’s early career, but this clip Jimmy Kimmel Live found of Billy …
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay launch 11-episode retrospective on 10 years of Funny or Die
“It was 2007, and at this point, the Internet was basically just a place for perverts to talk dirty to each other,” says writer/director Adam …
Samantha Bee reminds us she was on the case of Russian hacking and fake news trolling BEFORE the election
While the FBI and Congress are still trying to figure out what happened in our presidential election of 2016 and who helped the Russians and …
Now hear this: The very first “State of the Industry” by Andy Kindler at Just For Laughs Montreal in 1996
For years now, we’ve been sharing notes, transcripts and more recently full audio recordings of Andy Kindler’s annual State of the Industry Address that he …
Fred Armisen remembers “Sgt. Fred,” his first TV credit on Late Night with Conan O’Brien
Before IFC’s Portlandia, and before NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Fred Armisen showed up on your TV screens in unusual ways and sometimes even without credit. …