Cristela Alonzo has a new stand-up special out on Netflix in 2017, but she recorded it before the election. Alonzo explained on Wednesday’s Conan how all of her white friends texted her after the election, and how that made her feel. She also has some amusing experiences to share about her participation in the various […]
Continue ReadingPat Brown made her late-night TV debut as a stand-up comedian on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She joked about living in Harlem, the importance of a good grocery store, and her continuing respect for Barack and Michelle Obama. Roll the clip, y’all!
Continue ReadingOrny Adams literally was all over the place during his stand-up performance on Wednesday’s Conan. Pacing back and forth across the stage, shaking his microphone (which he didn’t need since he already had a lapel mic on his jacket), and finally sitting on the steps in front of Conan’s desk and panel guests, Adams raged […]
Continue ReadingNathan Macintosh is a Canadian comedian living in New York City, and Tuesday night Macintosh made his American TV debut performing on Conan. So he could note the irony of hearing Americans talk about moving to Canada now that Trump’s in power. But Macintosh grew up poor, which also means he didn’t have food allergies […]
Continue ReadingWhen was the last time you saw a comedian who’s part Native American and part African American performing on TV? When was the last time you saw a woman of any color performing on The Tonight Show, period? Please allow me to introduce you to Candice Thompson, who made her late-night debut Wednesday on The […]
Continue ReadingEstablishing himself as Conan‘s favorite stand-up comedian with repeated bookings to perform stand-up, Daniel Sloss was back onstage and on TV again Monday night, this time noting that even though he’s a foreigner, he pays more taxes to the U.S. than our current president does. If you think that’s something, you should know the deeper, […]
Continue ReadingBilly Wayne Davis grew up in a small town in the South. How small? Davis will tell you in this stand-up performance from Thursday’s all-comedian episode of Conan (the other guests were Andrew Dice Clay and Jen Kirkman). Going back to his hometown, Davis also joked about realizing that some of their small-town sayings weren’t […]
Continue ReadingBefore IFC’s Portlandia, and before NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Fred Armisen showed up on your TV screens in unusual ways and sometimes even without credit. Armisen performed a number of short videos for HBO in the late 1990s, for instance, that ran as interstitials between movies. He’d take one of his characters there, “Sgt. Fred,” […]
Continue ReadingGary Gulman delivered the best late-night stand-up performance on TV in 2016, and here he is in the first weeks of 2017 with even more from his stellar special, “It’s About Time” (read my review), as he joked on Friday night’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert about the negotiations we make with ourselves just to […]
Continue ReadingJimmy Fallon introduced Nick Thune on Thursday night’s episode of The Tonight Show as one of his favorite comedians, and also reminded viewers that Thune has a new stand-up comedy special (Good Guy) on “NBC’s digital comedy platform,” Seeso.com. And if that wasn’t direct enough for you, Thune also wore a Nick Thune T-shirt promoting […]
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