The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jim Gaffigan was a late addition to Wednesday night’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, but Gaffigan had plenty of jokes at the ready. It always helps to sleep with your writing partner. It’s his wife. Don’t worry. Gaffigan will explain it to you, and also let you know that there’s …
Here’s something you haven’t seen in more than 22 years: Jay Leno performing his monologue in the middle of The Tonight Show instead of at the start of it. That’s because 1) Leno is no longer hosting The Tonight Show, and 2) it’s not his monologue, but rather, his stand-up …
Look. There’s no denying that The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has cultivated a super fun atmosphere that the kids really enjoy, that turns adults into big kids, and has everyone sharing videos from his late-night variety show the next day. That said, when Fallon says “super fun,” or “kinda …
Denver-based comedian Andrew Orvedahl made his debut Monday on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and let’s just say it’s more significant than a pre-school graduation. Orvedahl would go much further than that. Both in life and in this routine. Fun fact: Andrew is one-third of The Grawlix, a Denver …
Dane Cook is in New York City this weekend, and showed up Friday to perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. What about love? Are you in love? How do you talk when you’re in love? Roll the clips! They’re cut into two because of NBC’s rule of nothing …
Jimmy Fallon’s heading back to the Super Bowl. NBC announced today that The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will broadcast live on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, from the Orpheum Theater in Phoenix. The special live Tonight Show will air live following Super Bowl XLIX, a special episode The …
The historic Friars Club building, a five-story house constructed in 1909 in midtown Manhattan that became the clubhouse and “Friars Club Monastery” in 1957 with Abbot Joe E. Lewis, was renamed the “Jerry Lewis Monastery” in a special ceremony Monday night in honor of the club’s current Abbot and Lewis. …
Kurt Braunohler recently hopped on a Jet-Ski in Chicago and rode it all the way down along the Mississippi River to New Orleans, for charity. And for a webseries, “Roustabout,” that you’ll be able to watch online via Comedy Central. On Friday night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Braunohler …
The 4th Annual Streamy Awards were handed out last night, in a live ceremony hosted and also presented online by Streamy Award winners and touring friends Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart. Here is their opening monologue. Congrats to all of the winners, listed below. Channel, Show or Series – Overall …
Almost every comedian I know shared a photo and/or an anecdote about Joan Rivers tonight in the wake of her death at 81, a week after she suffered cardiac arrest and stopped breathing during throat surgery. (Read the obituary of Joan Rivers here) Looking at all of these photos shows …
