At long last, The Chris Gethard Show returns to truTV later this month with a new batch of live episodes, but if today’s new promo is any indication, Gethard is having some anxiety-ridden second thoughts about this whole live TV show thing. The show returns Tuesday, March 20th at 11:00pm, so hopefully by then he’s […]
Continue ReadingJerrod Carmichael just signed on to write and produce a movie about the life of Harlem-based hip-hop fashion icon Dapper Dan, who has styled everyone from Salt-N-Pepa to Jay-Z to, more recently, Conan O’Brien. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Carmichael will adapt Dapper Dan’s upcoming memoir, which is slated to be released next year, for a biopic […]
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 ReadingLast year, HBO ordered a half-hour late night docu-series produced by John Oliver starring Wyatt Cenac, and now the show has a premiere date. Cenac announced on Twitter today that the series, titled Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas, is slated to premiere Friday, April 13th at 11:30pm: Maybe not the best move to announce another man […]
Continue ReadingTonight’s episode of Portlandia features the ultimate meeting of the minds when Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s feminist bookstore ladies, Candace and Toni, meet Nick Kroll and John Mulaney’s Oh, Hello guys George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon. Of all the things that could’ve brought these four together, I’m extremely grateful to know it’s an […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee shines a light on one huge aspect of the debate about guns, specifically Trump and the GOP’s decision to react to the Parkland shooting by blaming it on mental illness. “Most mass murderers aren’t mentally ill — only about 22% of them are. That […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers recaps some of the biggest Trump-related news stories this week including him not knowing the difference between North and South Korea, denying the chaos in the White House, economic advisor Gary Cohn’s resignation, and Stormy Daniels’s lawsuit against Trump for invalidating the hush agreement […]
Continue ReadingSterling K. Brown makes his Saturday Night Live hosting debut this weekend with musical guest James Bay, and the show got extra creative today with the promo, which reimagines the SNL cast and opening credits as a tiny world of toys. Bonus points for Aidy Bryant as a Care Bear, cardboard versions of Grand Central […]
Continue ReadingLike someone doing a spot-on celebrity impression, even the best parodies are, at their very core, marvels of the derivative. Still, there’s something mesmerizing about a well-tuned riff on a zeitgeisty moment. It’s almost primal. Anna Roisman and Cannibal Milkshake don’t reinvent the skate here by any means, but they don’t have to. Their ear for tone and […]
Continue ReadingAre there any four words that cause cringe in 2018 like “It’s a prank, bro”? Hordes of well-scrubbed YouTube boys have built careers around hollering that disclaimer after performing ridiculous acts in front of unsuspecting victims. Their videos are unanimously pretty dull, capable of eliciting shocked yawps at best before being forgotten by all but […]
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