The Jim Jefferies Show has pleasantly surprised since its start earlier this year on Comedy Central. On last night’s episode, Jefferies did what hardly anyone else in late-night comedy has dared to do — take the jokes about Harvey Weinstein and reflect them back upon himself. After skewering Weinstein, Hollywood culture for knowing about his […]
Continue ReadingYou might’ve just seen comedian Anthony DeVito on his Comedy Central Half Hour just a few weeks back. He also… MORE
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The former co-head writers of Saturday Night Live didn’t have to wait long to launch their next project, as Comedy Central has ordered The Other Two from Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider to series. The network simultaneously announced the order of South Side, from brothers Bashir and Sultan Salahuddin, to series. Here are descriptions of the […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central just gave series orders to two new shows. First up is half-hour comedy The Other Two, which is crated, written, and executive produced by Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, who recently left their jobs as co-head writers at Saturday Night Live. Here’s the logline: Created by, written by and executive produced by Kelly […]
Continue ReadingThe Daily Show kicked off its week of Chicago shows last night, and the episode featured the above segment starring correspondent Roy Wood Jr., who heads to the South Side to meet some of the ex-gang members who now work for CeaseFire, a program that mediates gang conflict and patrols dangerous neighborhoods with the goal […]
Continue ReadingPatton Oswalt is about to release his new stand-up comedy special, Annihilation on Netflix. It’s his follow-up to his award-winning… MORE
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For Sam Jay, comedy is a pursuit of happiness. An unfulfilling job had her questioning what makes her happy. When she really thought about it she realized, “I’m happiest when I’m in a bar, drinking, talking shit to people. There’s a crowd of people around that I don’t even know and I’m ranting or pontificating […]
Continue ReadingAnthony Atamanuik’s The President Show was recently moved from its original 11:30pm time slot to midnight to make room for The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, but now it’s moving to primetime. The show recently announced that starting next week, it will air on Comedy Central Thursday nights at 10:30pm, which will pair it up with Nathan […]
Continue ReadingThe day before his Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents taping, comedian Josh Johnson sat down with me in the green room of New Orleans’ Civic Theatre. One thing I noticed very quickly was that he was there to work. New Orleans is an easy city to get distracted in, especially if you feel like celebrating your […]
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 […]
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