The Comic's Comic Presents Last Things First

Bo Burnham is the quintessential YouTube comedy star. While still a teen, Bo went from recording funny songs in his bedroom to best-selling artist with Comedy Central. Burnham become a successful touring stand-up comedian as well as an actor, appearing on the big screen in Funny People and The Big Sick , and starring on the small screen in MTV's Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous . After directing two...

Rachel Bloom is the creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girfriend on The CW, for which she has won the Golden Globe and the Critics Choice Award for best actress in a comedy series. Bloom's first big break in musical comedy came in 2010, when she made a music video celebrating author Ray Bradbury. Along the way, she has written and/or performed for Allen Gregory, Robot Chicken, and BoJack Horseman . She'...

Bill Hader was nominated for three Emmy Awards for acting during his eight seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live , has written for South Park , lent his voice to animated hits such as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Inside Out , and served up memorable supporting roles in the films Superbad , Tropic Thunder and Trainwreck . After co-creating the great IFC mockumentary series Docume...

Sharon Houston punked Magic Johnson, Too Short, and 18 other celebrities on Punk'd , fooled Kim Kardashian's fans on Celebrities Undercover , and has filmed hidden-camera pilots for VH1, E!, Disney Channel, Style Network and Dick Clark Productions. Sharon has been a fixture in clubs and cabarets since the 1990s, first in New York City and more recently in Los Angeles. Her podcast, Daytime Justice,...

Brian Volk-Weiss is the founding president of Comedy Dynamics, which grew out of New Wave Entertainment to become the largest independent stand-up comedy production and distribution company. You see the Comedy Dynamics logo on almost every new stand-up special you see these days, no matter where you see it. Since 2016, his company also has produced series such as History's Join or Die with Craig F...

Candice Thompson is a former finalist on Stand Up NBC's talent search who has performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and served as a correspondent on the E! series, The Comment Section . She has starred in her own YouTube sketch comedy series, and written for the game show Smart, Funny and Black . Thompson just launched her own podcast, The Struggle , but first, she sat down with me t...

Benji Aflalo is a stand-up comedian, who alone together with comedy pal Esther Povitsky, created, executive produces and stars in the sitcom Alone Together — which already has been picked up for second season by Freeform. They play versions of themselves, friends from different backgrounds trying to find love and success in Hollywood. Alone Together is also executive produced by The Lonely Island...

Jade Catta-Preta is a Brazilian-born comedian and actress who you can see on the truTV series, Those Who Can't , and in person frequently at The Comedy Store when she's not touring as a feature act for Bobby Lee, Kevin Nealon or Bill Burr. In 2014, she co-starred as a regular on three different series, MTV's Girl Code , Showtime's Californication , and ABC's Manhattan Love Story . She's also appea...

Jeff   Dye  was a finalist on  Last Comic Standing  only three years into his comedy career. Since then,  Dye  has hosted two MTV series –  Numbnuts , and  Money From Strangers  – one Spike game show,  That Awkward Game Show , appeared frequently on ABC's  Extreme Makeover: Home Edition , and competed against other celebrities on both  Lip Sync Battle  and  I Can Do That . For two seasons now, he...

You probably recognize  Matt   Jones  from the critically acclaimed AMC series, Breaking Bad , where he played Badger. But  Jones  has an extensive comedy background, starting in Southern California, where he performed improv in high school, then eventually to Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, and back to Hollywood for multiple TV roles in sitcoms and sketch shows the likes of Reno 911, Community, The Of...

You may think you know Katt Williams, but you don't know the Katt Williams behind the headlines. You may know him from his role as Money Mike on Friday After Next , or from Wild 'N Out , or from his four HBO specials: The Pimp Chronicles, Pt. 1 ; It's Pimpin' Pimpin' ; Kattpacalypse ; and Priceless: Afterlife . He now has his first Netflix special called Great America , and is ready to tell me the...

Jena Friedman is a stand-up comedian, writer and producer who's now about to star in her first late-night special for Adult Swim. Friedman has written for The Late Show for David Letterman , produced for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , and taken a one-woman show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She later taped that show, American Cunt , as a special for Seeso. It's available on audio on iTunes....

Cipha Sounds got his start carrying crates and opening for Funkmaster Flex and was a longtime DJ on HOT 97 in New York City and VJ on Yo! MTV Raps . But his comedy cred is just as impressive, serving as the DJ for Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central, going on tour with the likes of Chappelle and Michael Che, and hosting a variety of comedy showcases, from Take It Personal: The Hip Hop Improv Show a...

For a third consecutive year, New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman has invited me into his home so we can tackle the year in comedy, but hopefully from a largely positive standpoint by focusing on the MVPs, the most valuable performers in comedy this year. In 2017, despite the Trump effect having much more serious repercussions than some expected, we had plenty of positives to look back on,...

Jackie Martling was a longtime writer and performer on The Howard Stern Show from 1983 to 2001, who also was showing up monthly in the pages of Penthouse magazine, opening comedy clubs on Long Island, released six dirty joke records, and published Jackie The Joke Man Martling's Disgustingly Dirty Joke Book . After splitting from Stern, he hosted Jackie's Joke Hunt for several years on SiriusXM sat...

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...