Yesterday, Conan O’Brien’s late night show had a sketch in the works that involved a goat, but after the sketch was cut — and after O’Brien found out that the show paid a whopping $750 to rent a real goat for a few hours — he decided that, sketch or no sketch, there was no […]
Continue ReadingTo promote his upcoming Comedy Central show The President Show, last night Anthony Atamanuik was a guest on The Late Show, where he talked with Stephen Colbert about how his Donald Trump impression started out during a show at UCB and broke down the key parts to building the perfect Trump impression, which depends heavily […]
Continue ReadingReading Brandon Wardell’s Twitter account is like looking at online humor and culture through a prism. He seems to reflect our every joke, meme, and pop culture reference into his surreal persona. Brandon is “online as hell.” He popularized the “Dicks Out for Harambe” meme last year, and he regularly hosts a Comedy Central Snapchat […]
Continue ReadingChuck Lorre and David Javerbaum’s pot dispensary comedy just got a premiere date at Netflix. TV Line reports that the multi-cam show, which was given a 20-episode series order last summer, will make its Netflix debut on Friday, August 25th. Kathy Bates stars in the show as as Ruth, “a lifelong advocate for marijuana legalization […]
Continue ReadingSeason 4 of Broad City is still a few months away, but Comedy Central released a new installment of Hack Into Broad City featuring Abbi and Ilana celebrating 4/20 in true stoner fashion. The episode might be short, but it’s got enough Broad City magic to hold us over until the new season premieres in August or […]
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 seven entertainment winners of this year’s Peabody Awards were announced today, and the list is dominated by comedy series. Donald Glover’s FX series Atlanta was named a winner alongside HBO’s Veep and two Louis C.K. projects (Horace and Pete and Pamela Adlon’s Better Things). Here’s the full rundown: Atlanta FX Productions (FX Networks) Donald Glover’s enchanting series on the struggles […]
Continue ReadingSome deaths remain fresh wounds that refuse to heal or dissipate with time. They remain eternally painful. The deaths of Johnny Cash and David Bowie and Philip Seymour Hoffman are like that for a lot of people. For many podcast and comedy fans, so was the death of Harris Wittels on February 19th, 2015. Harris […]
Continue ReadingNetflix announced a bunch of May premiere dates this week, including previously announced specials from Tracy Morgan (Staying Alive) and Hasan Minhaj (Homecoming King) and three new ones from Maria Bamford, Norm Macdonald, and Sarah Silverman. Here’s a rundown of all the premiere dates: May 2nd – Maria Bamford: Old Baby May 9th – Norm Macdonald: Hitler’s […]
Continue ReadingThe custody battle between insane radio host Alex Jones and his estranged wife has gotten even weirder this week with the news that Jones reportedly is “fond of disrobing” during counseling sessions and couldn’t remember basic facts about his kids because, in his defense, he had eaten “a big bowl of chili.” Given all these […]
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