CBS has a new comedy pilot in the works. According to Deadline, the network has ordered a multi-cam pilot called Brothered Up, which follows “an emotionally guarded African-American cop who is partnered with an emotionally available Pakistani cop and they are forced to find a way to connect as they patrol a Detroit neighborhood.” The […]
Continue ReadingPat Brown made her late-night TV debut as a stand-up comedian on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She joked about living in Harlem, the importance of a good grocery store, and her continuing respect for Barack and Michelle Obama. Roll the clip, y’all!
Continue ReadingApparently Donald Trump telling Iran they are “on notice” was the final straw for Stephen Colbert last night, who is clearly completely fed up now with the newly elected president stealing pretty much everything that made his old Comedy Central show and character unique. During last night’s Late Show, Colbert responded to Trump’s “on notice” […]
Continue ReadingStephen Colbert is a devout Catholic. Ricky Gervais is a proud atheist. Although Gervais described himself more as an “agnostic atheist” on Wednesday’s Late Show, after Colbert questioned him about his Twitter fights with critics over religion. Can you believe in religion and science both? Why do we have something and not nothing? Roll the clip!
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 ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert welcomes his old friend Jon Stewart to present the audience, in character as Donald Trump, with some of the president’s upcoming executive orders — and also some helpful wisdom for those who oppose him. “We have never faced this before: purposeful, vindictive chaos. But […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert’s old Daily Show pal Lewis Black looks back on Donald Trump’s first week as president, the Muslim immigration ban, voter fraud claims, and Vladimir Putin as well as Black’s early days working in politics on the high school level. “I did a lot of […]
Continue ReadingSuperior Donuts is a comedy about the owner of a small donut shop that’s located in a quickly gentrifying Chicago… MORE
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Late Show host Stephen Colbert just landed another major hosting gig. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Colbert has signed on to host the 2017 Emmys, which will air on CBS Sunday, September 17th. It will mark the first live awards show hosting gig for Colbert (aside from the Kennedy Center Honors), who was clearly inspired by […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from Friday’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert recaps the very dark, rainy, bizarre day that was Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. On Trump’s bleak inaugural address: “We get it, the country is a turd storm! You said all of that during the campaign, you can stop now! He knows he won, right? Putin […]
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