Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert chats with his old friend Amy Sedaris about her new truTV show, what she did when her bunny Dusty died, and her duties as godmother to Paul Dinello’s kids, plus some inside Colbert information: “We’ve known each other since 1988. Is there anything that […]
Continue ReadingThe Big Bang Theory’s Simon Helberg is behind a new comedy in the works at CBS. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has put into development a workplace ensemble comedy from Helberg called Need to Know. The multi-cam comedy will be set “in the top secret training video department at the CIA.” Scott Weinger and Zach […]
Continue ReadingCrazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator/showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna has teamed up with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend writer/actor Rene Gube for a new comedy at CBS. Variety reports that the network has put into development a single-cam comedy written and executive produced by the duo called Big Men, which centers on “an Asian-American rookie professional basketball player who dreams of a baller […]
Continue ReadingEarlier this year it was revealed that Childrens Hospital alum Erinn Hayes was let go from her starring role as Donna on Kevin James’s CBS sitcom Kevin Can Wait and that the show would deal with her firing by killing off her character altogether. In August, executive producer Rob Long defended the decision to TVLine, […]
Continue ReadingBefore all of the allegations against Harvey Weinstein came out, Tig Notaro was speaking out against the sexual misconduct rumors surrounding Louis C.K., saying in August that it’s important C.K. “handle” them instead of dismiss them. Not long after, C.K. did end up dismissing them again, but with the Weinstein scandal in the news now, […]
Continue ReadingNot since William Shatner’s spoken-word music album became nostalgically and ironically hip in the 1990s have I not known what to make of something like this, but here was Bill Murray, performing a medley of West Side Story tunes alongside his classical music friends on Thursday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Part spoken word. Part […]
Continue ReadingOver the weekend, Donald Trump took to Twitter to demand “equal time” during late night shows’ political coverage and called out the “anti-Trump” late night hosts for “their very ‘unfunny’ and repetitive material” about him, so during last night’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert was joined by his late night pal Jon Stewart, who was there […]
Continue ReadingTechnology has ruined some things these days, Nathan Macintosh argued in his performance Friday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Like phone calling and self check-out, for examples. Macintosh also yearns for the days when you could visit a video store to rent your next movie, because you might also see a couple fighting. […]
Continue ReadingSomething remarkable happened on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. It wasn’t one of the many game shows within Fallon’s talk shows, or something his musical guest performed, or anything from Fallon’s monologue or from his overly enthusiastic interactions with his guests. Nor was it even particularly funny. After Hillary Clinton, the woman […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from Natasha Leggero’s appearance on last night’s Late Night, where she tells Stephen Colbert about starring with Andrew Dice Clay in his Showtime series Dice, touring with her husband Moshe Kasher, plus being pregnant with their first (and according to Leggero, also their last) child. And what has pregnancy made Leggero crave […]
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