14 Legendary Late-Night Appearances by Cutting-Edge Comedians [Video]

Three years before his debut album dropped, Buress popped onto Craig Ferguson’s show to talk about personal checks, job interviews and his career aspirations.

Bamford dropped by the short-lived Martin Short Show in 1999 to talk sex ed from nervous moms, God’s cruel master plan and her life as a radical militant feminist.

Wright appeared on Carson’s show in 1982 to discuss how being born via cesarean section has impacted his life, buying discount office items, having his apartment robbed (kind of) and a ton of other bizarre non sequiturs.

In 1983, when he had only been in Hollywood “about 10 months,” Carrey led with his eyebrows and never looked back. He delivered Gumby-armed impressions of Elvis, Jack Nicholson and everyone’s favorite: General Secretary of the Communist Party Leonid Brezhnev.

When she was still a two-name …