Hopefully, you’ll agree with us that Emily Heller needs to be in more things more often.
Making the rounds doing stand-up on late night, Emily Heller notched in her latest set at Late Night with Seth Meyers last night. From feminism to how obsessive a brain can get, she put together a real nice tight 5 minutes.
It’s not as easy to put comedy tastes into an algorithm as it as music. As that’s the case, Pandora will now be highlighting certain comedians, which we think is the better route for listening to comedy.
They also made great pick starting with Nate Craig.
Six weeks ahead of its release, you can stream Nate Craig’s brand spankin’ new album “Eggshell” exclusively on Pandora as part of their new Pandora Comedy Spotlight program. It’s like NPR’s wonderful First Listen, but done for comedy.
So, with all of this in mind, we urge you to listen to Eggshell here, then, if you can, go to Nate’s party celebrating the occasion in Venice tonight.
It’s no secret that Nate Bargatze is one of Fallon’s favorite comics and you can see why with every set he’s done on Late Night and The Tonight Show including this one from last night.
Bargatze returned to the stage adjacent to Fallon’s desk once more and gave us some insight about how he, and probably many more people if they were being honest, would fare as a time traveler.
Watch his set here and be sure to catch his hour stand-up special Full Time Magic on Comedy Central on May 2nd at midnight.
Questioning the point of life never seemed so upbeat.
David O’Doherty performed on Conan last night armed with a little keyboard and fun little songs about the ever present dilemma of life and it’s meaning and purpose is.
Please give it a watch and you might feel better about the potential meaninglessness of it all.
Most of you think you’re some sort of fearsome predator or noble, upstanding creature. According to the findings of Joe Zimmerman, the Internet thinks otherwise.
Zimmerman’s latest late night stand-up set on Conan showed what happens when a simple Google search goes fantastically awry, but ultimately ends up with you knowing yourself better, especially when it comes to spirit animals.
We’re assuming that you’re on a comedy album a week budget and on that assumption, you should pick up this one from Cayton-Holland.
You might be down over the fate of Twin Peaks returning hanging in the balance, but give yourself a pick up by buying and listening to Backyards, the new album from the fantastic Adam Cayton-Holland.
You can get it on iTunes or on CD w/limited edition baseball card.
Louie is back Thurs. night, which brings another added treat of C.K. doing great rounds at late night and a bunch of fascinating, unfiltered interviews.
On The Tonight Show, Louis C.K. went one unbelievable story right after the other of being the head writer on the short lived Dana Carvey Show and making sure Jimmy Fallon, who apparently is hearing the story for the first time live on TV, didn’t get on the show, then detailing how had to go on stage with poop in his pants at a black tie event, stand alongside Mayor Bill De Blasio.
C.K. also reminisced about the harder, struggle-ridden days of doing stand-up in New York City both on The Tonight Show and in an in-depth interview with The Hollywood Reporter and how appreciative of it he is now.
Also, we’re pretty sure you can see a picture from Louis’ story about standing next to De Blasio with poop in his pants in the THR interview.
We know it’s April 1st, but Mark Little “isn’t” trying to play us at all when he calls himself a “rapper” and definitely not playing us as a damn funny comedian.
Mark made a spot-on late night stand-up debut on Conan last night sailing smoothly delightfully through jokes into a rap song he’s “famous” for.
Watch his set here and hope he ends up spending more time in the U.S. than in Canada soon.
Even though Seaton Smith has been on TV more than a few times, it’s about time he got a late night stand-up set in.
Smith made a great first late night stand-up appearance last night on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
The joy that Seaton has during his set laughing and smiling juxtaposes nicely against discussing black republicans, gay pride parades, and Martin Luther King Jr. sleeping around.
Death, kids, divorce can all be enjoyed together as shown by Dana Gould.
Gould performed last night on Conan and gave us all something to think about in reaching those milestones of having a family, then potentially losing them, and then leaving this mortal coil all while having a good laugh.
Watch his set here.
The wonderful Beth Stelling graced our screens once again last night by performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Per usual with Stelling, Beth’s was a genuine delight as well as a hilarious story about her mom having to change phone service providers.
Watch and enjoy here.
Cristela Alonzo (yes, the one from ABC’s Cristela) is part of a great growing class of Conan stand-up regulars. This is Alonzo’s third time on the show offering up the trials of how overpriced losing weight is as well as racial ambiguity.
Kurt Braunohler took a break from riding on jet skis for charity or making “snow” fall in LA to do some stand-up on Late Night with Seth Meyers this week. If you’re worried that it won’t be a little “out-of-the-box”, worry not as Kurt definitely has a chunk about what utensils we should be using as a country.
With his fourth stand-up set on Conan last night, UK comedian Daniel Sloss has made himself into a bonafide regular on the show. Sloss is one of a rising tide of UK comedians making headway here in The States and we’re glad for it.
Watch this latest set where he’s amazed that his parents are his parents both in the nature and nurture sense.
One of our absolute favorites here at The Comedy Bureau, Jackie Kashian, got to return to Conan O’Brien’s stage to do stand-up once more.
Kyle Kinane is already off to a fantastic 2015. His latest special I Liked His Old Stuff Better was great and now he just notched in a marvelous set on The Tonight Show.
Hopefully, this means Kyle can avoid doing awful college gigs where mascots have to get involved like this one he shares a story about backstage.
Hailing from Seattle by way of Ethiopia, we’re lucky to have the very funny Solomon Georgio here now in Los Angeles.
Last night, he got to make his TV debut performing on Conan and while it may very well be the first late night stand-up set in the U.S. from an openly gay immigrant, you should watch it because it’s pretty great.
Most performances by stand-up comedians on late night programs are rehearsed word-for-word and vetted in a similar fashion by the show and the network. The result is a highly polished display of jokes, one right after the other, timed out, usually, to be exactly 5 minutes. When you go see those comedians live, it’s usually a little more visceral, livelier, intimate, and personal.
Andy Kindler manages to do a tight set and still pull off being completely himself on late night. Andy is one of the few comedians that takes the national spotlight of a late night talk show to not only do his jokes, but give his signature commentary in between those jokes, which doesn’t seem rehearsed or vetted, but, instead freewheeling and so much fun.
His set from Letterman last night is another perfect example amidst a big pile of perfect examples of this. Note that he also ends right at 5:00.
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.
UK comedian Simon Amstell has already been on David Letterman’s stage at The Ed Sullivan Theater twice doing stand-up.
Now, Amstell is on to the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and continuing to kill it with his cleverly thoughtful comedy working his way into the hearts and minds of Americans tuning into late night.
(via Variety)
Announced today, HBO’s next hour stand up special will be coming from Tig Notaro. Her amazing, lightning-in-a-bottle album Live, it would seem, might just be a preview of this special since she’ll be covering the passing of her mother and her bout with breast cancer.
It is set to tape later this year and we’re hoping that it’ll span the whole range of Tig’s comedic prowess from pushing a stool to the stories she shares at NPR and on The Moth.
Now that we’re into the interim period of The Late Late Show between Ferguson and Corden, it would seem that there are going to be a lot more comedians doing sets on the show over the coming weeks.
We’re definitely happy about that.
Already, Lachlan Patterson has done a set this week. Now, you can enjoy the delightful Esther Povitsky who notched in a set on The Late Late Show last night.
More so than Jan. 1st, Jan. 5th better marked the new year as everyone seemed to get back to work. That includes late night talk shows and stand-up comedians doing sets on said late night talk shows.
So, with that said, we’re off to the races for late night sets with Lachlan Patterson, who you saw on Last Comic Standing last year, on The Late Late Show with (for the week) Drew Carey.