Nothing I say can prepare you for the end of Joe Pera’s set on Tuesday night’s Conan. Well, perhaps I could tell you to bone up on your knowledge of birch trees. Or I could hire a body language expert. Or I could tell you that this smile pictured above is Pera at his heartbreaking best. […]
Continue ReadingJoe Zimmerman doesn’t want to get laser surgery to improve his eyesight, and before you try to convince him otherwise, know that he’s fully thought this through — as he joked about on Friday’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Zimmerman also joked about survival techniques and a game you can play at home to find […]
Continue ReadingJimmy Kimmel sets up this bit rather nicely. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, whose daughter serves as a propaganda officer for President Trump, keeps writing horribly unfunny jokes on Twitter. Huckabee fashions himself to be a comedian — and I’ve even seen him in a comedy club before, way back in the day when Comix […]
Continue ReadingBlack men not only have to worry about encountering police officers, but also white women. As comedian Greer Barnes explains in this set from Monday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Here’s a question, though: Did Barnes already have this gig booked? Or did he get the gig after appearing on HBO’s Crashing? […]
Continue ReadingUsually the March Madness of the NCAA basketball tournament pre-empts CBS late-night programming, but The Late Late Show with James Corden snuck in a brand-new episode on Thursday, and Lil Rel Howery joked about how difficult it is to talk about hoops with his uncle who keeps name-dropping players you’ve never heard of before. Also, […]
Continue ReadingAnthony DeVito made his network TV debut on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he acknowledged that his facial features make him “ethnically ambiguous,” which can be a plus and a minus in this era. It also makes him the future! If so, the future also is even hairier than you […]
Continue ReadingAnthony DeVito made his network TV debut on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he acknowledged that his facial features make him “ethnically ambiguous,” which can be a plus and a minus in this era. It also makes him the future! If so, the future also is even hairier than you […]
Continue Reading“I got a hundred likes on the pictures, so this doesn’t really matter right now.” That’s Sam Jay making her late-night debut on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. She jokes about how we should lean into our stereotypes, and despite everything, still be nice to old white men. Roll the clip!
Continue ReadingKurt Braunohler has a new one-hour special (and comedy album) out now thanks to Comedy Central, and he’s about to become a brand-new dad, too. Which had Braunohler thinking dad jokes on Conan, as well as about the problems with dads in America. Roll the clip. You can check out Braunohler’s new album, “Trust Me,” […]
Continue ReadingYou’ve heard or read about comedian Mo Amer taking a flight across the Atlantic seated next to Eric Trump, but here on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Amer got to mine it for even more jokes. Amer, a refugee from Kuwait, also joked about growing up in Texas and how he […]
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