Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the AHCA bill the Republicans’ jammed through Congress yesterday, which was a lot like their first attempt at a healthcare bill with a bunch of even worse items added in (or as Meyers puts it, “they basically took an […]
Continue ReadingEarlier this week, an unaired pilot starring Aubrey Plaza called Terror Team was posted to Reddit, and today Polygon did some digging and discovered that the 15-minute video was a pilot presentation for Comedy Central back in 2015 that was later developed into a TBS pilot called Nightmare Time last year. Nathan Fillion, Jack McBrayer, […]
Continue ReadingWhen I heard that Comedy Central had greenlit a show called Problematic (a word often used in social justice circles), I wondered if it would be the second-coming of the short-lived The Jeselnik Offensive, a show which often pushed the boundaries of good taste for the sole purpose of seeing what it could get away […]
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 ReadingThe Chris Gethard Show is moving to a new network, and this time it’ll stay true to its public access roots by airing live. truTV announced today Gethard’s show will return for a 16-episode third season and will air live hourlong episodes from New York. “I’ve long admired truTV for their brand of honest, in […]
Continue ReadingThe McElroy brothers — Justin, Travis, and Griffin — started their first family podcast in 2010 as a way of keeping in touch while living in different states. My Brother, My Brother and Me is a comedy advice podcast which skews heavily towards the comedy. “The McElroy Brothers are not experts, and their advice should […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah highlighted the thousands of people who took to the streets for this year’s People’s Climate March and figured out a way to get Donald Trump to actually care about global warming despite all his efforts to remove Obama-era regulations that fought climate change. “There […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at James Comey’s testimony yesterday as well as the Republicans’ latest attempt to repeal Obamacare despite their new replacement being even worse than the first one. “Paul Ryan and the Republican Congress have had seven years to come up with […]
Continue ReadingStephen Colbert will be joined by a bunch of his fellow Daily Show alums on The Late Show next week. CBS just announced that next Tuesday, May 9th, The Late Show will air a “special episode” featuring Colbert alongside Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Ed Helms, Rob Corddry, and Late Show co-executive producer Jon Stewart. Notably […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re like me, every once in a while you stop what you’re doing completely and say to yourself “holy crap, Donald Trump is President.” It’s been over three months since his inauguration, but it still feels surreal. This is primarily because until November 8, 2016, conventional wisdom suggested that people like Donald Trump — […]
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