Here’s a clip from last night’s Conan, where O’Brien is subjected to a very comprehensive New York City citizenship test by longtime NYC resident Jon Stewart. “You don’t lose your citizenship of New York when you leave it. You are always and will always be a citizen of New York,” Stewart assures O’Brien before the test. […]
Continue ReadingNetflix is a joke — at least that’s what they want you to think. From their cryptic billboards to their comedy-only Instagram account, Netflix has been engaged in an aggressive push to become the go-to place for comedy. Last month it kind of paid off, as Netflix was the only streaming service or channel to […]
Continue ReadingAs someone who starred in a multi-part Daily Show segment called “Good Guy with a Gun” as well as his own special exploring gun control in the US, Jordan Klepper is extremely familiar with the “good guy with a gun” argument, which Fox News has latched onto again in the wake of the Sutherland Springs church […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to our Fall Comedy Reads series, where we take a closer look at some of the newly released comedy-related books worth checking out this month. Budd Friedman loves celebrities. This point is driven home multiple times throughout his memoir/“oral history,” The Improv: An Oral History of the Comedy Club That Revolutionized Stand-Up. By comedian Bruce Smirnoff, who […]
Continue ReadingConan O’Brien kicked off his week of shows in New York last night, which included the above segment following O’Brien as he meets up with Harlem’s legendary hip-hop stylist Dapper Dan to get some style tips and eventually a full-on swag makeover. “This isn’t working for me. And I’ll be honest with you — this […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Donald Trump’s Asia trip, the escalating tension with North Korea, and the latest updates in the Russia investigation, which go hand-in-hand with Trump’s obsession with pushing manufactured Hillary Clinton scandals on Twitter and in interviews. “In the span of […]
Continue ReadingThe paranoia-inducing The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon is best paired with a room temperature watermelon wine cooler, which should be preceded by licking two hits of LSD off an official United States Post Office stamp (or a Trystero stamp, if you can find one). Don DeLillo’s breakout novel White Noise goes down […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been a year since I last caught up with comedian Kathleen Madigan and to be honest, it was long overdue. Madigan, a 30-year comedy veteran, is currently in the process of preparing her Netflix special Bothering Jesus for album release and gearing up for Boxed Wine & Bigfoot, a 30-city tour that kicks off […]
Continue ReadingHBO just revealed premiere dates for season 2 of Pete Holmes’s series Crashing as well as Sharon Horgan’s Divorce starring Sarah Jessica Parker. Divorce premieres its second season on HBO Sunday, January 14th at 10:00pm followed by the season 2 premiere of Crashing at 10:30pm. Divorce earned a season 2 renewal almost a year ago, […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been quite the journey for Paul Reiser and David Steven Simon’s series There’s…Johnny. The show was originally slated to premiere on Seeso back in August, but NBC announced it was shutting the streaming comedy site down before the premiere date came. Thankfully, the show found a new home over at Hulu, and today the […]
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