Another Period returns to Comedy Central for its third season tomorrow night. The early 20th century comedy created by and starring Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome follows sisters Lillian (Leggero) and Beatrice (Lindhome) Bellacourt in their quest for Edwardian-era fame. The hilarious period comedy sends up both Kardashian-style reality shows and British period dramas like […]
Continue ReadingThis week’s Aziz Ansari story has fired up a very polarized debate, if the round of recent thinkpieces are any indication – just compare The New York Times piece “Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader” with Vox’s “The Aziz Ansari story is ordinary. That’s why we have to talk about it.” […]
Continue Reading“Comedy Central Is Corporate.” That’s what was on some mysterious billboards in Los Angeles and New York recently, without much else to go off other than a date. For most people they didn’t know what the billboards were advertising, but there were three guys who had the inside scoop: Matt Ingebretson, Jake Weisman, and Pat […]
Continue ReadingNikki Glaser is still very much in the business of working with Comedy Central after the cancellation of her late… MORE
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Comedy Central soon will have its own live morning radio show: You Up with Nikki Glaser. Glaser, who previously hosted a primetime TV talker, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, on Comedy Central in 2016, will host live Mondays through Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon Eastern (7 to 9 a.m. Pacific) with her friend and […]
Continue ReadingMore Jim Jefferies Show is in the works at Comedy Central. According to The Wrap, the network has handed out a season 2 renewal to the show, which was ordered to series in March 2017 and wrapped up its debut season later in the year. The second season, like the first, will consist of 20 episodes. […]
Continue ReadingEver since Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he was planning to hand out the “Most Dishonest & Corrupt Media Awards of the Year” (or as Stephen Colbert calls them, “The Fakies”), late night hosts have been fighting to prove why their show most deserves recognition for fake news excellence. And the race between The Late Show […]
Continue ReadingThe Daily Show with Trevor Noah will start feeling more local for African viewers tonight, as the Comedy Central series now has a South African correspondent to report on topical segments just for the African broadcasts of TDS. Loyiso Madinga, a stand-up comedian from South Africa, will file his first piece tonight the African National […]
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 Daily Show, where Trevor Noah recaps the excerpts that have been published from Michael Wolff’s explosive but questionably dependable new book about the Trump White House, and why the Trump team dismissing it as “full of false and fraudulent claims” is pretty damn rich. “Look, as entertaining as it […]
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