When Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live just after the presidential election, the iconic comedian urged the audience during his monologue to give Trump a chance. Fast-forward to Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and after six months in office, Trump’s chances have run out. Or have they? “It’s not like I […]
Continue ReadingCBS All Access, the streaming platform for CBS, has announced its first exclusive sitcom for the network, and it’s an adaptation of an Australian series made by the funny folks at Funny or Die. No Activity will premiere before the end of 2017, bracketing the two chapters of the first major CBS All Access series, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert chats with Senator Al Franken about which of his fellow senators have a good sense of humor and which ones, including Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma, are open about their lack of comedy skills. Near the end of the clip, Franken tells Colbert about […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert sits down for a chat with Matthew McConaughey, who happens to be a huge fan of Colbert’s old sketch show Exit 57 – so much so that he has the show’s sketches memorized. “I religiously watched that show,” McConaughey says, telling Colbert that he’d “roll […]
Continue ReadingMaz Jobrani has a new Netflix special coming out next week, and he teased a bit of it Tuesday night on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Jobrani’s parents didn’t come to his school events when he was young, which in retrospect was a good thing, because they were immigrants from Iran, and nobody […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert chats with fellow Daily Show alum Samantha Bee about having dual citizenship, why her kids don’t watch her show, and why they’re more interested in being able to swear in the house than other kinds of treats or rewards. “They don’t really care for […]
Continue ReadingThis past year has seen several late-night TV shows spin off their segments into their own series, and now it’s Stephen Colbert’s turn. Showtime announced today it has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of an untitled animates series starring the Cartoon Donald Trump who has made several appearances over the past year on The Late Show […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert responds to yesterday’s vote in the Senate to debate a healthcare bill no one knows anything about. “Today, they raised the bar on lowering the bar,” Colbert says. “The bill was a total mystery. It’s like Westworld: No one knows exactly what’s going on, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert continues “Russia Week” by finally sharing the segment he went to Russia for in the first place – visiting the Moscow Ritz-Carlton’s now-infamous Presidential Suite, AKA ground zero for the “Trump pee pee tape.” After meeting with journalist and Russian surveillance expert Andrei Soldatov […]
Continue ReadingIf you tuned in Tuesday night to see Matteo Lane make his debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, you missed him, because he got bumped to Wednesday. But the wait was worth it. Lane joked about the very nature of pharmacy school, and how finding a gay man in Italy is a far […]
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