Something 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 ReadingEarly this morning, my mom texted me about an MSNBC segment that aired last night on a group of psychiatrists and mental health experts who have banded together to warn that Donald Trump is “psychologically off the chain.” “Donald has a lot of scary monsters in his head like the short you showed me from the president show, […]
Continue ReadingTonight at 12:30 Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents will air a half hour that is arguably unlike any you’ve seen before. If this sounds like hyperbole, please know that the special involves giant sentient glowing crystals and excerpts from Melania Trump’s secret diary delivered by someone who refers to himself as a Space Prince. The half […]
Continue ReadingEvery so often you hear somebody say something like “Oh, I would love to do standup comedy, I’m just too shy.” And more often than not, they never do. Luckily for us, Anthony DeVito managed to overcome his shyness — so effectively, in fact, that this year alone he performed on The Late Show and […]
Continue ReadingWhen Jordan Klepper made his debut on The Daily Show in 2014, it was clear that he had a little Stephen Colbert in him. Or, to be more specific, a little “Stephen Colbert.” He was perfect at being the guy who was arguing for the wrong things for the express purpose of showing how wrong […]
Continue ReadingJo Firestone spent the day before her Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents (her episode premieres tonight at 12:30) taping sitting by the pool doing Sudoku. “I like to be alone. I have some people here, so I might push them away. That’s my style, to push people away.” Alone time is important since the behind-the-scenes at […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s episode of The President Show, where Anthony Atamanuik’s Donald Trump heads to Washington DC to find Congressman Ben Sherman, a California Democrat who has already filed an article of impeachment against him. The two chat in Sherman’s office about his impeachment push and the multiple examples of Trump’s obstruction […]
Continue ReadingI spoke with Casey James Salengo fresh off his return from taping his Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents, set to premiere tomorrow. From what I’ve seen of him on shows over the last few years, Salengo has never been someone to either overestimate or underestimate his own comedic talents. He’s never appeared all too concerned with […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s The Opposition, where Jordan Klepper chats with Citizen Journalist Tim Baltz, who is trying his best to be the most effective wingman possible for Klepper. “It’s just like Steve Bannon said: Being a good wingman isn’t about staying on the inside and doing what you ask. It’s about going […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central debuted Jordan Klepper’s new show The Opposition last night, and for fans of Klepper’s work as a correspondent on The Daily Show, the premiere was a very promising start. In the above clip, Klepper connects the character he played on The Daily Show with the new show, gets ahead of all the mainstream […]
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