The Daily Show and The Opposition aren’t the only late night shows planning live State of the Union coverage this month. Variety reports that over at CBS, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will also air a live episode the same night Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver his first State of the Union address […]
Continue ReadingTBS just announced a pile of comedy news. First up is a double-season renewal for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, which will keep the show on the air through the 2020 election. Also given a double-season renewal is Seth MacFarlane’s animated series American Dad, which will be paired up with new Conan O’Brien-produced animated comedy […]
Continue ReadingLast week, former Community writer Megan Ganz took to Twitter to call out Dan Harmon for what she found to be hypocritical behavior, given the sexist treatment Ganz received from Harmon while he worked as her boss on the NBC sitcom. “It took me years to believe in my talents again, to trust a boss when he […]
Continue ReadingWhen I caught up with Anjelah Johnson she was at her home in LA, getting ready to head to the Bay Area to spend Christmas with her family before doing a stretch of eight New Year’s weekend shows at Tommy T’s Comedy Club in Pleasanton, just 25 minutes from where she grew up. For Johnson, […]
Continue ReadingThis week, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper aired a two-part segment from Citizen Journalist Kobi Libii, who headed out to Twin Falls, Idaho to investigate what far-right sites like Breitbart claimed was a horrific gang-rape of an Idaho girl by Syrian refugees that turns out to be – unsurprisingly, since it’s Breitbart and all – […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, where correspondent Ashley Nicole Black heads to Georgia to meet gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who just might become the first-ever black female governor in the country. As Black quickly learns, Abrams is extremely overqualified for the job and has found creative ways to win over […]
Continue ReadingNot everything needs a twist. Tynan DeLong and Colin Burgess’s short Emergency Room is so well-executed at its simplest core idea–nurse/doctor isn’t sure how to contribute to life-saving surgery in a tense ER–that it’s worth featuring in spite of an ending that felt almost too rational for such a heightened and poignant commentary on out-of-their-depth […]
Continue ReadingThe upcoming season of HBO’s Silicon Valley now has a premiere date. The network announced today that season 5 of the show, which was renewed back in May 2017, will debut Sunday, March 25th at 10:00pm. As previously announced, T.J. Miller will not appear in the next batch of episodes. The season 5 cast includes […]
Continue ReadingWhen news broke last week that FX’s critically acclaimed comedy Atlanta would finally be returning for its second season, I marked the occasion by rereading one of my favorite profiles of Donald Glover, which was published back in August 2016. Speaking to Vulture about the show’s creative priorities, Glover said the following: “The No. 1 thing we kept coming back […]
Continue ReadingThanks to victims and reporters who worked to bring long-rumored sexual assault and misconduct allegations to light against powerful men like Harvey Weinstein and Louis C.K., we’re finally beginning to see instances where men publicly question other men about their alleged behavior. Last month, John Oliver confronted Dustin Hoffman during a panel that turned into […]
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