‘Structurally Sound’ is a recurring feature where each week a different structurally unusual, rule-breaking anomaly of an episode from a comedy series is examined. “This is what happens when we battle for the butts. We don’t let girls come between us.” Somehow the very DIY brand of comedy that capitalizes on “buds being buds” that’s […]
Continue ReadingAshley Nicole Black is a writer and correspondent on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She dropped out of a PhD program at Northwestern University to study comedy at The Second City. Thank God it worked out. This week Black spoke to me about four of her favorite tweets, plus the Congressional Black Caucus, unpunished celebrity […]
Continue ReadingAshley Nicole Black is a writer and correspondent on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She dropped out of a PhD program at Northwestern University to study comedy at The Second City. Thank God it worked out. This week Black spoke to me about four of her favorite tweets, plus the Congressional Black Caucus, unpunished celebrity […]
Continue ReadingJim Jefferies is headed to Comedy Central with a new late night show. According to Variety, the network has ordered 10 episodes of a weekly, half-hour late night series starring Jefferies, which was ordered to pilot last year. The show will “take on culture and politics” and “show Jeffries traveling around the world to take […]
Continue ReadingJim Jefferies is headed to Comedy Central with a new late night show. According to Variety, the network has ordered 10 episodes of a weekly, half-hour late night series starring Jefferies, which was ordered to pilot last year. The show will “take on culture and politics” and “show Jeffries traveling around the world to take […]
Continue ReadingKurt Braunohler doesn’t want you to trust him and he explains why in his first ever Comedy Central one-hour special Trust Me, premiering tonight at midnight. For Braunohler, this hour is part of his current comedy goal: to make the laughs mean something. “I want to get to a place that’s not just silly haha, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from former POTUS George W. Bush’s appearance on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where he looks back on the days Will Ferrell impersonated him on SNL and a meeting he had with Lorne Michaels at the time. “I had dinner with Lorne Michaels, the head of Saturday Night Live, and he said, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the recent news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with the Russian ambassador during the campaign despite claiming under oath during his confirmation hearing that he didn’t. “‘I met with him but I don’t know what you’re talking about, […]
Continue ReadingIn the history of cinema, few celebrities have ever been mocked so brutally over the course of a movie as poor Michael Bolton in Office Space. We find out that one of the low-level employees the movie focuses on shares a name with him, and ever since he became famous in the late ’80s, his […]
Continue ReadingJane Fonda and Lily Tomlin return to Netflix this month with a new season of Grace and Frankie, and the streaming network just released the first trailer for season 3, which shows Grace and Frankie facing some bumps in the road starting their new business making vibrators for older women. Check out the trailer above, […]
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