Ari Shaffir finally gets to the bottom of the only reason you should go camping and how to be a porn connoisseur last night on Conan.
Whether you want to get to learn the answers to those queries or not, you should watch and enjoy his stand-up set here.
Brian Kiley returns to The Late Show with David Letterman stage at The Ed Sullivan Theater to perform another set to, yet again, waves and waves of applause.
Watch his set here.
Jim Gaffigan looks like he’s going to have a pretty fun week at the helm of The Late Late Show on CBS.
Just check out his kids opening up the show just like they’ve been doing for some of his stand-up shows and his monologue from last night.
“Late Show With Stephen Colbert” will debut on Sept. 8, CBS announces. Colbert’s comment below: pic.twitter.com/IPJX0xBD2a
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff)
So, one of the very final dates in the beginning of this new era of late night is set. Sept. 8th, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will premiere on CBS at 11:30PM (via @ditzkoff).
You read that right. We all have to wait nine months until Colbert resumes his role as a host on the legendary Late Show. As he has said himself, "I have nine months to make a show, just like a baby. So first, I should find out how you make a baby.“
That’s a long time, especially considering what’s going to be happening in the meantime.
For one, David Letterman is signing off from The Late Show on May 20th.
James Corden, who will be following Colbert with The Late Late Show, starts his hosting duties several months earlier on Mar. 23rd.
…and…
Larry Wilmore will be starting next week on Jan. 19th with The Nightly Show at Comedy Central.
…then…
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returns for its second season Feb 8th at HBO.
…then…
Grace Helbig will be headlining her own talk show on E! ostensibly replacing Chelsea Handler starting in April, though it will air in primetime.
…then…
Conan O’Brien will tape a week of episodes at Comic Con this summer, which should be one of the most fun things to happen this year in late night.
The only other thing that is going to happen in the late night realm after Colbert takes over in the latter part of 2015 is the aforementioned Chelsea Handler doing a talk show on Netflix in 2016.
All of this is in addition to Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien, and Jon Stewart, continuing to build their late night empires both live on TV and online.
So, with all of those dates set, that leaves four months at CBS where 11:30PM is vacant. Apparently, there will be reruns (via THR) playing in that slot during that time leading in Corden. All other late night programs will be more than happy to play against reruns at 11:30PM at CBS.
What interests us is what exactly will Colbert be up to in these nine months. The format for his tenure at The Late Show is set to be much more traditional than The Colbert Report, which, we think, wouldn’t necessarily need nine months of pre-production and retooling.
Is there something else that Colbert is up to for most of this year? Maybe it’s just some well deserved time off?
Either way, we definitely want 2015 to go way faster now.
Not only is Kyle Dunnigan a very funny comedian, but he has a secret “magical” talent that he’s apparently been hiding from the late night audiences of America.
All that changed this week when he performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers this week. Watch his set here.
(via Deadline)
Throughout the history of late night , all the major broadcast networks have had an absence of female late night talk show hosts. Even the roster of interim hosts for The Late Late Show that bridges the gap between Craig Ferguson exiting and James Corden starting doesn’t have a female guest host so far as we know.
So, Lauren Graham has taken it upon herself to co-write and star in a sitcom about their being a fictional one trying to make her way in what has been a field almost entirely populated by white men in America since its inception. NBC has taken on the project, titled Kate on Later, for development and Ellen DeGeneres has boarded the project as an executive producer.
Perhaps, this might resemble a female led Larry Sanders Show and we’re absolutely on board for that.
Though he had already taped a comedy special that will be coming out in the not so distant future, Jermaine Fowler, somehow, still had yet to perform stand-up on a late night talk show.
Luckily, that changed last night when he got to perform on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and got to tell the world of how his brother got put in Special Ed by mistake.
Watch it here (starting around 35:08) or at CBS.com (around 35:40).
Erin Foley notched in her latest late night set on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
For obvious reasons, our headline here couldn’t simply read “Watch Erin Foley on Ferguson”, but it’s still worth watching if you need a laugh today.
Start at 33:40 at here or at CBS.com when the YouTube clip gets inevitably taken down at some point.
Stand-up has been happening more on late night over the last few months, a trend we’re definitely on board for. More folks like Fahim Anwar get to make their debut because of it.
Mike Lawrence notches in another great late night talk show stand-up set (sets on Conan are his other ones) with his performance on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night.
Allen Strickland Williams has been working his way through the LA scene for more than a few years now and all his work has just paid off. Last night saw Allen’s late night stand-up debut on Conan.
Give it a watch and, if you’re into this sort of thing, count the applause breaks because there’s plenty to count.
Hopefully, after watching Matt Donaher’s set from Conan last night, which, was also his first late night TV set, you’ll appreciate the wondrous craftsmanship of Donaher’s jokes as much as we do.
In fact, we’ll never forget this set, especially if we’re thinking about eskimos.
This weekend, we were treated to the likes of Brian Regan, The Lucas Brothers, and even Chris Rock, in a way, doing stand-up on late night TV.
So, we’ll cap this weekend off with the debut of Alingon Mitra, who’s already gotten to do stand-up on Last Comic Standing and Adam Devine’s House Party, on The Late Late Show on Craig Ferguson.
Gary Gulman is currently on a tour across the country that will lead up to the taping of his third special. Not many comics get to have late night be one of the stops on their tour, but Gary got to return to Conan for a second time to do stand-up and showcase the sharply written comedy that’s gotten him to this point after 20 years.
Watch his set here.
Last year, Dan St. Germain did stand-up on Conan for the first time without a shirt and tie and it was pretty great.
For this second appearance on Conan, Dan donned an entire suit and absolutely made sure to comment how it doesn’t necessarily fit his particular brand joie de vivre and it went even better.
Turns out the Weird Al Yankovic has just wrapped up a three decade plus long record contract with his latest chart topping album Mandatory Fun. Yankovic chatted about that with Seth Meyers on Late Night last night as well as how he makes sure to clear his song parodies with the artists (even if its the night before recording) and his overall process in song writing and what he goes for.
While that’s all well and good, Weird Al also talked about the one time that he played Wheel of Fortune with Little Richard and James Brown, which is a thing that really happened.
We’re glad to see Randy Liedtke back on TV, this time making his late night talk show debut by performing stand up on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
It’s supremely silly and fun as you should expect from Liedtke and probably the perfect thing you need to start off this Friday morning, or any morning really.
Approaching the precipice of ending his decade long run as a late night talk show host at The Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson imparted some advice to late night newbie Seth Meyers while on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
For the most part, Craig stresses that there will be a point where you go crazy.
Kurt Braunohler notched another great late night set in when he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. It should make you all the more excited for Kurt’s upcoming CC:Studios series Roustabout.
If you’ve been to any of the Oddball shows, you might have seen Hannibal Buress in a custom jump suit with his own face printed on it.
Not only did he wear during his appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, but Hannibal gave the origin story behind it. He also gave some insight into who he photobombs, his rejected SNL sketch, as well as learning to dunk in case he has to play in the NBA Celebrity Game next year.
Watch the whole interview here.
As Joan Rivers passed away yesterday afternoon, there were plenty of tributes throughout the world of late night, one she was such a forceful, hilarious presence in. Conan O’Brien and Chris Hardwick, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart, and Craig Ferguson all paid their respects to Rivers on their respective programs.
Though Brooks Wheelan was just a SNL cast member in the previous season of SNL, Brooks had yet to do stand up on a late night talk show on TV.
Last night, Brooks changed that by performing on Conan. He also let the world know about how long he had a Furby as a kid.
For the last several weeks, many of all of our favorite late night programming has taken their summer vacations and we’ve all been left with reruns at 1 in the morning.
Now that Summer’s over, it’s all back to work for all of us, which includes brand new episodes of Letterman, Kimmel, Fallon, Conan, Meyers, The Daily Show, “@midnight”, Colbert, and Ferguson (that’s Craig Ferguson mind you, not Ferguson, MO).
For tonight, you should especially watch Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris on Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC 12:35AM) and Brett Gelman and Brooks Wheelan on Conan (TBS 11PM)
You might have seen Hampton Yount on Last Comic Standing or Adam Devine’s House Party, but Hampton’s been deserving of a stand up set on late night for quite some time.
Fortunately, last night, he got to do just that on Conan. Watch his set here (and then also never think about how your grandparents met the same way ever again).
With Drunk History’s third season ordered at Comedy Central, series creator Derek Waters got to chat with Seth Meyers at Late Night about the actual inception and development of Drunk History.
Spoiler alert: It involves someone getting drunk…