The Definitive Guide to Comedy
“We’ll do it live!” Stephen Colbert presided over a live edition of The Late Show on CBS this February following Super Bowl 50, and he’s hosted a rare live episode in late-night here and there as well. So why not take advantage of the anticipated political fireworks that’ll go off this …
Audiences at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert see Paul Mecurio every night, but usually only before the cameras start rolling, since Mecurio is the show’s audience warm-up comedian. On Wednesday night’s episode, though, Colbert booked him to perform during the show, too. So the audience greeted Mecurio with a …
Marina Franklin didn’t mean to become a cougar, as they say in dating lingo. But as she explained in her stand-up set on Friday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Franklin couldn’t help it if she’s aged well. She can control what kind of guys she dates, though. And as she …
Nick Griffin has performed several times on the Ed Sullivan Theatre stage and the Late Show, but Friday marked his first performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Griffin put a new spin on adulthood and what it means to be grown-up, observing: “It’s hard to be an adult…you’re …
Ryan Hamilton is a great stand-up comedian and a great stand-up guy who performed to great acclaim on Friday night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. You can watch it right here, as he describes the unnecessarily laborious process to cancel his gym membership in 2016. Side note: …
I don’t know if every stand-up comedian who performs on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has to have a direct personal connection to the host, but it certainly has started out that way. Sam Morril became the third stand-up to perform on Colbert’s Late Show since he took over …
CBS announced a new showrunner today for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, moving Eric Licht from his executive producer gig on the morning shift for CBS This Morning to help steer the late-night ship into more comfortable long-term territory. Before you rush to write your hot-take thinkpieces about how …
Maria Bamford is Stephen Colbert’s favorite comedian. Don’t take my word for it. Colbert said that himself when he invited Bamford onto The Late Show on Friday night to really kick off the show’s relationship with stand-up comedy and comedians. Bamford joked about being a newlywed and keeping the love …
It took four months for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to book a stand-up comedian performing stand-up comedy, and who knows how much longer we might have had to wait if not for Jerry Seinfeld’s appearance Monday night — since Seinfeld insists upon performing stand-up as a prerequisite to …
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 …
