Kurt Braunohler’s “Trust Me” shows we can all be a little be weird and better off because of it

To a complete stranger, Kurt Braunohler is fairly indiscernible from any other 40-something white guy with glasses, but in reality… MORE

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Comedy Central Orders a Weekly Late Night Show Hosted by Jim Jefferies

Jim Jefferies is headed to Comedy Central with a new late night show. According to Variety, the network has ordered 10 episodes of a weekly, half-hour late night series starring Jefferies, which was ordered to pilot last year. The show will “take on culture and politics” and “show Jeffries traveling around the world to take […]

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Comedy Central Orders a Weekly Late Night Show Hosted by Jim Jefferies

Jim Jefferies is headed to Comedy Central with a new late night show. According to Variety, the network has ordered 10 episodes of a weekly, half-hour late night series starring Jefferies, which was ordered to pilot last year. The show will “take on culture and politics” and “show Jeffries traveling around the world to take […]

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Kurt Braunohler Doesn’t Want You to Trust Him

Kurt Braunohler doesn’t want you to trust him and he explains why in his first ever Comedy Central one-hour special Trust Me, premiering tonight at midnight. For Braunohler, this hour is part of his current comedy goal: to make the laughs mean something. “I want to get to a place that’s not just silly haha, […]

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Episode #140: Kate Berlant and John Early

Kate Berlant and John Early are unique characters in stand-up comedy, and yet you almost always see them together, whether it’s in each other’s half-hour specials for Netflix’s The Characters, in their joint project for Vimeo, 555, or on the bill together on shows from New York City to Los Angeles and stops in between. […]

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February 2017: First month of Trump administration sweeps late-night TV ratings

When people said Trump would be good for comedy, they were thinking about punchlines, and not ratings. And yet, the first month for Americans living under President Donald Trump has sent them scurrying to different TV stations after their late local news than they had been watching just a couple of months ago. Just look […]

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“The High Court with Doug Benson” don’t judge a case without your trusty bong

The latest in a long line of courtroom reality shows aimed at people who spent way too much time watching… MORE

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‘The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic Attempts to Find Paid Trump Protesters in Alabama

Republican lawmakers have recently been flooded with angry constituents at town halls across the country in response to the Trump administration, and since Trump and his supporters keep alleging that the protesters are paid and bussed in from other districts, Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic decided to investigate at a recent town hall in Alabama. […]

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‘The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic Attempts to Find Paid Trump Protesters in Alabama

Republican lawmakers have recently been flooded with angry constituents at town halls across the country in response to the Trump administration, and since Trump and his supporters keep alleging that the protesters are paid and bussed in from other districts, Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic decided to investigate at a recent town hall in Alabama. […]

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Check out these teasers clips from Kurt Braunohler’s special, “Trust Me”

This Friday night at 12 midnight (alright technically Saturday) Kurt Braunohler’s special, Trust Me will premiere on Comedy Central, making… MORE

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