The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Dice is in a bad mood. The world is upside down. Batman vs. Superman? Andrew Dice Clay explains in this stand-up performance on Tuesday’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. His new semi-autobiographical series, Dice, premieres this Sunday on Showtime. Roll the clip!
Fallon favorite Nate Bargatze made his fourth stand-up comedy appearance on The Tonight Show on Friday night, and he’s no April Fool. Although Bargatze did admit he’s a fan of Trump. But in the way that anyone can be sold on a late-night infomercial kind of way, kind of fan. …
Gabriel Iglesias wore a suit for his third stand-up performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. A suit! If you’ve seen Iglesias do stand-up, you’re used to Hawaiian shirts and jorts. Not this time. Fluffy cleans up nice, doesn’t he? He also joked about how fancy the NBC facilities …
Jimmy Carr is the first British comedian to produce an original stand-up comedy special for Netflix, and Carr celebrated the occasion with a five-minute performance Thursday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. So here’s a sampler platter of one-liners from Carr’s new special, Jimmy Carr: Funny Business. Roll …
Steve Martin remains a great showman after all these years, and whether you want to nitpick about whether he has or hasn’t performed stand-up in the past 35 years and what constitutes stand-up exactly, but it’s great to see Martin entertaining the people live. And that’s exactly what he did …
Mary Lynn Rajskub performed stand-up on Friday’s Tonight Show, and she said flying to NYC and getting away for a weekend away from her husband and child made her feel like Miley Cyrus, even if people still recognize her from her role on 24. On that show, she played a …
Seth Herzog is what Malcolm Gladwell would call a Connector. The Zog seemingly knows everyone in comedy and show business who lives and works in New York at any given moment, and on any given Tuesday, you might see one of his famous friends onstage or playing sidekick to Zog …
Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show tenure will receive a second-anniversary primetime party on Valentine’s Day, followed by a week of shows broadcast from Universal Studios in Universal City above Los Angeles. NBC announced the celebration and L.A. visit for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon during the network’s turn Wednesday before …
For her third appearance performing stand-up on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Iliza Shlesinger went back to catch viewers up on her notion of the “party goblin,” a concept explaining that part of your subconscious that talks you into making poor decisions that she has joked about before — …
