Jacob Smith (@jacobjargon) is a writer, performer, activist, and Libra. He has worked as an intern at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS and was featured as a playwright at the Mizzou New Play Series. Recently, he co-starred with Rachel Tiedemann in Noah and Sofia, a mockumentary which won first place in the True/False […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s President Show, where Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump is joined by Steve Bannon (John Gemberling) and Mike Pence (Peter Grosz) for a new round of “Nice! Not Nice!” covering everything from miniskirts to lice to Hillary Clinton to history: “History: It’s old, it’s books, and I wasn’t there, so who cares?” […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Weekend Update: Summer Edition special, where Alec Baldwin returned with his Donald Trump impression to reenact the campaign rally in Phoenix earlier this week. Like the real-life rally, SNL’s Trump is upstaged by Kenan Thompson as the sign-wielding “Blacks for Trump” guy, and later on, the recently fired Steve […]
Continue ReadingSeason 43 of Saturday Night Live now has a premiere date, host, and musical guest. Last night, the show revealed that Ryan Gosling will host the season 43 premiere on September 30th with musical guest Jay-Z: Season 43 premieres on September 30 with @RyanGosling and JAY-Z! #SNL pic.twitter.com/a2kdhJGVs0 — Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) August 25, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a video Anthony Atamanuik’s President Show posted on Twitter today that’s two parts impressive and one part extremely terrifying – a roundup of the now multiple predictions the show has made that came true days and sometimes even minutes afterward. From Trump’s “many sides” comment in response to Charlottesville to his decision to stare […]
Continue ReadingDemetri Martin is expanding his summer Let’s Get Awkward tour through the rest of the year. Earlier this week, Martin posted the above announcement video for the tour, which will make over two dozen stops in both Canada and the US from now until early December. Check out the full list of dates below, and […]
Continue ReadingThe comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast […]
Continue ReadingSteve Coogan’s Alan Partidge is returning to the BBC with two new television projects. Deadline reports that BBC Two will air a one-hour Alan Partridge special later this year to celebrate the character’s 25th anniversary since his 1992 BBC Radio debut. In addition to the special, Coogan will star in a new series as Partridge, which will […]
Continue ReadingMy prayers have been answered. Nah, not really. I’m not religious. Still. After lauding Jason Gudasz’s Somewhere in Highland Park, we’ve got here the second episode in a series that’s brought to life by Aaron Kee and Brodie Reed, and continues to make me laugh out loud. Check this one…and then go back and watch the […]
Continue ReadingHulu just ordered a new ensemble comedy series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming network has given a 10-episode series order to a new show called All Night. The half-hour series is created by Jason Ubaldi and directed by Brian Dannelly and centers on “an overnight, lock-in graduation party when a group of new […]
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