This Week in Comedy: Late Night is Back on TV
Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. Courtesy of NBC. This Week In Comedy: The late night schedule is taking shape again. For the first time since May, most of television’s late night shows – save for The Daily Show, which returns later this month – will be returning to their usual time slots with new episodes. […]
Thirty Great Stand-Up Sets To Celebrate Conan O’Brien’s Hosting Debut Thirty Years Ago
When Conan O’Brien debuted his version of Late Night, it was a wild and raucous experience that saw everything from John Goodman leg-wrestling to Halle Berry playfully flirting with the host during an early stage of his “awkward romantic nerd” schtick. The bits Conan did, from the faux-future predicting In the Year 2000 to wild […]
Beth Stelling Announces New Netflix Special “If You Didn’t Want Me Then”
Beth Stelling. Beth Stelling is getting her first Netflix special! Following her Max special Girl Daddy – which came out in 2020 – Stelling took to Instagram to announce the new Netflix special, If You Didn’t Want Me Then. She was joined in the announcement by Whitney Cummings. Cummings added that Stelling is a Republican, […]
Comedy On Tour: Nick Offerman, Patton Oswalt And More Touring Again
Brace yourselves, comedy aficionados, because Fridays at 800 Pound Gorilla News are about to become your favorite day of the week! Get ready to embark on a riotous rollercoaster ride as we unveil the sizzling scoop on all the freshest and fieriest stand-up comedy tours that rocked our world this past week. These comedy maestros […]
The 35 Best Comedy Specials and Albums of 2020
The relationship between comedy and 2020 can best be described as contentious. The year started off strong then very quickly forced many to adapt to a pandemic which saw the comedy world (like many) flipped upside down. While there’s an end in site, it still might not be fast enough for many as we saw […]
Beth Stelling drops by “Conan” to talk about building up her meat coat
Beth Stelling is the best! She was the guest comedian on Conan last night and broke down the seasons. Particularly how being from the Midwest, it doesn’t really matter where she finds herself in the nation, when it starts to get cold, the meat coat begins to build.
Spend your 4th of July with new Netflix series “The Standups,” featuring half hours from Nate Bargatze, Dan Soder, Nikki Glaser and more
This 4th of July, Netflix is debuting their new series The Standups, a compilation of completely new half hours from Nate Bargatze, Nikki Glaser, Beth Stelling, Deon Cole, Fortune Feimster, and Dan Soder. Taped earlier this year in Los Angeles, The Standups is the latest in Netflix’s ever-expanding roster of original comedy offerings. All six half hours […]
Bargatze, Stelling, Soder, Glaser, Cole, and Feimster set to record Netflix specials next week
Netflix is in no shortages of announcing more and more stand-up comedy specials. Late yesterday after making a monstrous Louis C.K. announcement the streaming service announced plans to record stand-up specials for 6 comedians next week in Los Angeles at the Cicada Restaurant. For a while, rumors have been abound that the streaming giant was […]
Watch the trailer for Doug Benson’s new show, “The High Court”
Late last year Comedy Central announced that Doug Benson would have a new 15 minute late night TV show called, The High Court. With that name and Doug Benson running the show, you could gleam the show’s premise. Benson will oversee small claims court cases (a La The People’s Court) and he will then retreat […]