The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jena Friedman is a stand-up comedian, writer and producer who’s now about to star in her first late-night special for Adult Swim. Friedman has written for The Late Show for David Letterman, produced for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and taken a one-woman show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. …
You can look back on a calendar year from many different perspectives and points of entry. Your memories flash in front of you. And then a website comes and calculates how other people viewed your year for you. Or one slice of your view. Such is 2015bestnine.com, which takes an …
Before David Letterman got his own late-night talk show on network TV, he was, like many of you, I suppose, a hungry young stand-up comedian and writer. Here is some footage of Letterman from back then, talking about the influence of Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor on his generation of …
Robin Williams went on The Late Show with David Letterman last night, and showed he's almost fully recovered from his recent heart bypass surgery. Williams reveals he can still kick and get physical, but there's something a bit off vocally. He'll go back on tour at the end of September. …
In case you missed it last night, Norm MacDonald had quite the rambling chat session with David Letterman. Really. It was all over the map. But Letterman finally got what he wanted in the end, giggling throughout MacDonald's story about Bob Uecker seeing John Fogarty. Apparently, Uecker must not be …
UPDATED WITH VIDEO! Boston-based comedian Joe Wong will make his network television debut tonight on Late Show with David Letterman, and many of you will be seeing him for the first time. Wong taped his set on Monday and was terrific. Which is great news, not only for Wong, but …
Denis Leary appeared on last night's edition of Late Show with David Letterman (though taped on Monday), and after some funny banter from Leary ribbing Letterman for waiting 23 years before getting married to his girlfriend, Leary explains that he looks as good as he does at the age of …
On tonight's edition of Late Show with David Letterman, you'll hear Letterman say something you never thought he'd say again: "I got married." Which is why I'm mentioning it here. This is Letterman's second marriage. He and Regina Lasko have a 5-year-old son, Harry. From the home office (not the one …
We all know now that Feb. 11 was a blur for Joaquin Phoenix, and Feb. 12 turned out to be a blurry cold/flu vision for me, but who will look at this Friday the 13th and find it blurry? Spoiler alert: Probably you. That said, the Phoenix interview on The …
Fully aware that this has circulated around the Internets already today, and yet, I feel compelled to put this on my site, because, well, when I watched the full thing last night, I realized instantly that I was watching something special and no longer felt bad about staying in. Who …
