Conan O’Brien is heading back to Harlem later this year. According to Deadline, O’Brien’s TBS late night show will tape another week of shows at the Apollo in New York during the New York Comedy Festival from November 7th through the 12th. O’Brien last did a week of Apollo shows back in November, and in […]
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 ReadingLots of comedians I follow on Twitter haven’t joked in months, and it’s not because they don’t funny ideas. It’s because of articles like this. We thought we’d made progress these last eight years. Things weren’t perfect; we knew they never would be, but they were improving — at a rate faster than I’d seen in […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a great clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee heads back to the SoulCycle bunker to chat with ACLU civil rights attorney Lee Gelernt, who was one of many lawyers who worked tirelessly over the weekend trying to help travelers who were detained due to Trump’s unconstitutional Muslim ban, which ultimately led […]
Continue ReadingIn case you missed Donald Trump’s terrible Black History Month speech yesterday (if you can even call it a speech), Late Night created a way for you to check it out without actually having to watch it. In the above clip from last night’s episode, Seth Meyers welcomes writer Amber Ruffin to do a live […]
Continue ReadingBack in 2011, Mr. Show writer Eric Von Hoffman created an Adult Swim pilot starring Jay Johnston and Rich Fulher called Guy Suave: Homicidal Spy, and while the pilot never went to series, thanks to Hoffman we can finally get a peek of what might have been. Here’s what Hoffman told us about how the […]
Continue ReadingChris Gethard’s hit off-Broadway show produced by Judd Apatow, Career Suicide, is getting the HBO treatment. The network announced today that Gethard will tape a performance of Career Suicide in New York this month that will be turned into an HBO comedy special set to air sometime in May. The show originally debuted back in […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to The Second City Archives, in which we post an exclusive clip each week of some of comedy’s biggest superstars performing early in their careers on the legendary Chicago stage. Second City has generously given us a glimpse into their extensive archive of live performances, and over the coming weeks we’ll be sharing some […]
Continue ReadingCBS just added a new comedy pilot. According to Deadline, the network has ordered a half-hour comedy pilot written by Bad Teacher creator Hilary Winston called Real Time, which is a redeveloped version of a romantic comedy pilot Winston had in the works last year called My Time/Your Time. The project “chronicles the relationship of […]
Continue ReadingBack in October, Comedy Central ordered a 15-minute series from Doug Benson called The High Court, where Benson stars as “Judge Doug” and rules on real small claims court cases “before retiring to his chamber with a guest bailiff to get very stoned and deliberate on the matter.” Throughout the 10-episode debut season, Benson will […]
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