The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Matt Farley has written more than 18,000 songs in the past eight years, but his biggest performance came Tuesday night when Jimmy Fallon took up the “Suggestion Box” offer of a gig by Papa Razzi and the Photogs. So here was Farley performing his song, “Used to be a Pizza …
The Tonight Show under Jimmy Fallon has demonstrated a comforting throwback trend when it comes to stand-up comedy, in allowing or convincing (whatever the case may be) stand-up comedians to actually perform a few minutes onstage proper instead of (but also in addition to) sitting on the panel to chat …
Stand-up comedian Jeff Dye has done so much television over the past few years since competing on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, I almost didn’t believe it when Jimmy Fallon introduced Dye on The Tonight Show as making his “late-night debut” on Wednesday night’s show. And yet. While you can see …
Mike Birbiglia says that his new movie about an improv group, Don’t Think Twice, uses plenty of real-life influences and anecdotes. Jimmy Fallon’s life isn’t among them, although Fallon shared a funny note about what happened when he himself got the call from Saturday Night Live — when Fallon called …
Brian Regan returned to The Tonight Show this June to make us question why press conferences only have one set of microphones, why sports fans have to mimic their mascots, and what the proper response was to the Michael Vick case. Roll the clip!
A second season of Jay Leno’s Garage is back on CNBC, so corporate synergy allowed Leno to fill in for his successor Jimmy Fallon during Thursday’s monologue on The Tonight Show. And Leno had plenty of topical jokes at the ready about the two major-party presidential candidates in 2016, Hillary …
Kenny and Keith Lucas — aka The Lucas Brothers — visited Jimmy Fallon again on Wednesday night to perform on The Tonight Show. This time around, they wondered, if people imagine what life would be like if they were tall enough to play in the NBA, what would NBA players …
It’s the end of the world as we know it, but Harland Williams feels fine. As he explained in his stand-up set on Tuesday’s Tonight Show, he’s not about to let North Korea or global warming scare him. Nature, though? Roll the clip and find out!
Jack Whitehall doesn’t look or sound as young as he still is, but that’s part of his charm — combined with starting in show business at an early age. For his stand-up performance on Friday’s Tonight Show, Whitehall joked about how his British accent isn’t quite as sexy as you …
Nick Guerra is 5-foot-5, which is rough when you look at dating sites and see how many women want a tall men, but is amusing when his long hair manages to form a line behind him for the women’s room. Although he explained while making his late-night debut on Friday’s …
