The Comic's Comic Presents Last Things First

Sue Costello grew up in the powder keg of Irish Catholicism getting more diverse that was Boston's Dorchester neighborhood in the 1970s. Costello got herself out of Dorchester to make a lot of hay in Hollywood two decades later, culminating in her own FOX sitcom, Costello . Since then, you've seen her as a regular on the roundtable for Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn , while her street smarts and bru...

Kev Adams is France's biggest young comedy star, with 6 million Twitter followers and another 5 million checking out his Instagram. He was performing one-man shows in Paris while still a teenager, and starred in 692 episodes of the TV series, Soda . He also co-starred in two hit movies in France, Serial Teachers , and The New Adventures of Aladdin . Adams has toured with his idol, Gad Elmaleh, and...

Orny Adams played Coach Bobby Finstock for six seasons of MTV's Teen Wolf . But to comedy fans, Orny is famously and infamously known as the co-star of Jerry Seinfeld's documentary, Comedian . While Seinfeld developed a new hour of stand-up from scratch, Comedian followed Orny's obsessive path as an aspiring comedian making his debut as a New Face at Just For Laughs in Montreal. Orny has since per...

You've seen Bob Saget's friendly face on TV for four decades now, ever since he starred in the late 1980s in the ABC sitcom Full House as well as the host of America's Funniest Home Videos . More recently, he has provided the narrator's voice of future Ted Mosby for the CBS hit, How I Met Your Mother , performed on Broadway, written a memoir and recorded a Grammy-nominated comedy album. That's Wha...

Colton Dunn began performing improv comedy while still a teenager in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dunn moved to New York City just in time to join the upstart Upright Citizens Brigade, then went to Amsterdam to perform with Boom Chicago. When he returned to the U.S., Dunn wrote and performed on MADtv , Pretend Time with Nick Swardson , Parks and Recreation, Burning Love, Comedy Bang! Bang! , the new Arsen...

Judah Friedlander may be best known for playing TV writer Frank Rossitano on the hit NBC sitcom, 30 Rock, but Judah has been making his appearance felt on screens big and small, with or without his trademark trucker hats. From his roles in films such as American Splendor , The Wrestler , Wet Hot American Summer , Meet the Parents -- from a bar patron in Star Wars: The Force Awakens to comic relief...

Jenn McAllister has 3.1 million subscribers and counting on YouTube, where she documents her life as jennxpenn. Jenn started uploading videos to YouTube when she was 12. At 16, she signed a deal with Awesomeness TV, then moved from Bucks County Pennsylvania to Los Angeles. She published her best-selling autobiography, Really Professional Internet Person , in 2015, and for the past two years has st...

Mark Feuerstein co-created, produces and stars in the new CBS sitcom 9JKL , which is loosely based on his real-life experience moving back to NYC to live next to his parents and brother while starring for eight seasons on the USA drama Royal Pains . Feuerstein began acting as a student and classmate of mine at Princeton University, and after winning a Fulbright Scholarship, found early success in...

Comedians, writers and actors  Corinne  Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson co-host the incredibly successful podcast  Guys We F*cked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast  which now has more than 200 episodes talking to comedians, porn stars, and more, a worldwide audience of more than a million listeners. They've taken their show on the road to comedy clubs, theaters, TED Talks and festivals. Now they've re...

Vladimir Caamano grew up in an immigrant Dominican family in the Bronx to live the American comedy dream. Since breaking out as a New Face in the 2015 Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, he has been anointed by Howie Mandel in a televised gala for The CW, co-wrote and starred in an NBC pilot based on his life and comedy with hit producer Bill Lawrence, and named one of Variety magazine's...

Best known for his work on Ren & Stimpy , Billy West has been making magic with his character voice work since the 1980s, starting on the radio in Boston and graduating to the Howard Stern Show. He has voiced the title characters on the Nickelodeon series Doug , as well as Ren & Stimpy , was Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd for the movie Space Jam , is the red M&M in TV commercials, portrayed Philip J. F...

Heather Anne Campbell is one of America's great improvisers. She has studied under the legendary Del Close in Chicago, performed overseas with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, appeared on MADtv , written for Saturday Night Live , and helped jumpstart FOX's ADHD Animation Domination High-Definition. In Los Angeles, you've seen her or taken classes from her everywhere you possibly could, from the UCB Thea...

Chaz Miller, Cameron Miller, and Amanuel Richards are one half of the sketch comedy group Dormtainment, who formed in Atlanta in 2009. They went straight from college to YouTube, and over the next eight years, amassed one million YouTube subscribers, a Comedy Central web series called Six Guys One Car , two albums on the Billboard comedy charts, and a live show that's a hit on college campuses. Th...

Jimmy Shubert was just a kid from Philly who wanted to be a magician. That's how he started in show business, before moving to Los Angeles in the 1980s and taking a job at The Comedy Store, where he became the kid in Sam Kinison's outlaws of comedy crew. That led to development deals and pilots early on in his career. Over the years, you've seen him in recurring roles on King of Queens and Entoura...

Dave Smith is a native New Yorker and key member of the emerging new platform, GaS Digital Network. You've likely heard Dave as one-third of the Legion of Skanks alongside Big Jay Oakerson and Luis J Gomez, or as host of the podcast Part of the Problem, which combined receive hundreds of thousands of downloads each week. You also can see Dave featured regularly as a comedic political analyst on FO...

Scot Armstrong grew up outside of Chicago and first studied comedy under the legendary Del Close, before moving to New York City and joining the Upright Citizens Brigade improv troupe Mother, whose members included Jason Mantzoukas, Jon Daly and Jessica St. Clair. He has since worked with St. Clair as an executive producer on both of her TV series, Best Friends Forever and Playing House. But you'v...

Ryan Hamilton grew up in a small town in Idaho and studied broadcasting before turning to comedy. Hamilton calls several comedy scenes home, and that perhaps allowed him to emerge nationally in the mid-2000s in Sierra Mist's America's Next Great Comic Search. He's also won the Great American Comedy Festival contest, and performed multiple times at Montreal's Just For Laughs festival, where I caugh...

Lynne Koplitz caught her first wave of success hosting or co-hosting TV shows the likes of Change of Heart , How to Boil Water , and Life and Style . The stylish comedian became friends with the late great Joan Rivers while paired up in the IFC comedy Z Rock , and later became a recurring character on Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best . Koplitz more recently was seen on the big screen in Chris Rock'...

Janicza Bravo has made several short films that debuted at premier festivals such as Sundance and SXSW, and also directed an episode of the hit FX series, Atlanta . Bravo's first feature film,  Lemon , features her husband, Brett Gelman, as an actor and acting coach who turns 40 and realizes nothing in his life is where it's supposed to be. In real life, you've seen Gelman shine in everything from...

Natalie Morales is an actress best known for her supporting roles in sitcoms that have included Parks and Recreation, Trophy Wife, Girls , and The Grinder . She's also done drama with White Collar , and action-adventure with The Middleman . She directed a webseries for Funny or Die about James Joyce's Love Letters, and you can currently see her on the Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet . Later in 2...

Nate Bargatze is Jimmy Fallon's favorite stand-up comedian, and Bargatze has the Tonight Show credits to back that up. Nate also has gone on tour with Fallon, multiple tours to entertain the troops in Iraq and Kuwait, and has two hit comedy albums to boot: Yelled At By A Clown and Full Time Magic. Those are references to his father, who was a clown and now is a magician. Bargatze released his firs...

Judd Apatow has one of the most impressive comedy resumes of anyone, anywhere. His Apatow Productions has produced and developed the television series Freaks and Geeks , Undeclared , Girls , Love and Crashing , he has directed the hit movies The 40-Year-Old Virgin , Knocked Up , Funny People , This Is 40 and Trainwreck , and produced another dozen smash comedies on film since the late 1990s. Befor...

Dylan Brody started his stand-up career in New York City while still a teenager in the early 1980s, performing on multiple TV showcases, writing monologue jokes for Jay Leno when Leno was still just guest-hosting The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson , and he has performed around the world. In more recent years, you may have seen him on The Green Room with Paul Provenza , opening for fellow humorist...

Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley had mutual friends growing up in Nebraska, but didn't meet each other until they were both aspiring comedic actresses in Los Angeles. Hensley has appeared in shows such as Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Smedley has appeared in several TV commercials. But together, they've built up a fan base of more than a million Facebook followers for their video...

Erik Griffin is recognizable to fans of Comedy Central's Workaholics as Montez, but he's also a veteran stand-up comedian who's playing a stand-up comedian and a Vietnam veteran in the Showtime series about comedy in the 1970s, I'm Dying Up Here . I sat down with Griffin in LA's iconic Canter's Deli to talk about his career path, what it's like to fictionalize stand-up comedy for TV, and the makin...