Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver breaks down the “it’s part of our history” argument against taking down Confederate monuments by people who try to equate the Confederacy with fighting for anything aside from keeping slaves. “If the Confederacy was not about slavery, somebody should really go back in […]
Continue ReadingWhat does SNL want to be under Trump? This is the second weirdly apolitical show in a very political time. Last week’s only topical outings were the impression-palooza of a cold open and some hurricane/NFL stuff during Update. This week the cold open and part of Update were devoted to Las Vegas, but nothing was […]
Continue ReadingSad news: TMZ is reporting that standup Ralphie May died today of cardiac arrest after battling pneumonia over the last six weeks. “We are heartbroken to announce the untimely death of our friend, Ralphie May,” May’s manager told Variety in a statement. “Ralphie had been battling pneumonia and had canceled a handful of dates over the […]
Continue ReadingJacob Pierce is a college student whose Twitter I found while scrolling through my newsfeed. Unlike most of the people interviewed in this column, Pierce is neither an aspiring nor a professional comedian, but his tweets are hilarious and topical, and he somehow manages to be both sarcastic and sincere. Many of his jokes are […]
Continue ReadingEarly this morning, my mom texted me about an MSNBC segment that aired last night on a group of psychiatrists and mental health experts who have banded together to warn that Donald Trump is “psychologically off the chain.” “Donald has a lot of scary monsters in his head like the short you showed me from the president show, […]
Continue ReadingMindy Kaling and Charlie Grandy’s NBC comedy series Champions is rounding out its cast. Deadline reports that Fortune Feimster has joined the show as a series regular, joining previously announced cast members Anders Holm, Andy Favreau, J.J. Totah, Mouzam Makkar, and Nina Wadia. The single-cam series centers on Holm as Vince, “a charismatic gym owner […]
Continue ReadingTo say the least, it’s been an awful week, but last night’s episode of The Chris Gethard Show (the perfectly titled “Everything Is Terrifying”) offered up a rare moment of positivity when Gethard’s mom called in to offer her son some words of encouragement and cheer up guest Michael Ian Black, who lost his own mother earlier […]
Continue ReadingTonight at 12:30 Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents will air a half hour that is arguably unlike any you’ve seen before. If this sounds like hyperbole, please know that the special involves giant sentient glowing crystals and excerpts from Melania Trump’s secret diary delivered by someone who refers to himself as a Space Prince. The half […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Trump continuing to brag about his terrible response to Puerto Rico and using Twitter to escalate the tension with North Korea. “So all the careful diplomacy and bargaining and angling just goes out the window with one tweet,” Meyers […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Conan, where O’Brien teams up Kumail Nanjiani for the latest installment of “Clueless Gamer,” where the two play Middle-earth: Shadow of War and O’Brien discovers that the soon-to-be SNL host also has a voice role in the game. “Here’s the thing, Conan. I’m a little nervous, because they wrote […]
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