What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may be Hollywood, but New York […]
Continue ReadingHow would you react if a guy auditioning for America’s Got Talent pretended he was Robert De Niro with full De Niro face, only he didn’t sound much like De Niro, but instead presented a series of celebrity impersonations straight out of the most popular impersonations of yesteryear, with Christopher Walken, John Travolta and Jack […]
Continue ReadingSeven more weeks! Seven more weeks! Comedy Central has extended the inaugural season of The President Show for an additional seven episodes, Comedy Central President Kent Alterman announced today. The late-night satire of President Trump, starring Anthony Atamanuik, airs late-night Thursdays after The Daily Show. “Whether we’re witnessing the end of democracy, or merely the […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been telling you since Anthony Atamanuik first stepped onto the UCB stage to debate James Admonian as “Trump vs. Bernie” for the first time, that we were watching something special. Sure, you can find plenty of other Trump impersonators, and plenty more since Trump became president. You may laugh at one or all of […]
Continue ReadingStephen Colbert made his name playing “Stephen Colbert” on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report. Watch him pass the torch to a new Comedy Central satirist as Anthony Atamanuik stopped by The Late Show to show off his great impersonation of Donald Trump. Atamanuik will star in The President Show, a weekly satire debuting next Thursday […]
Continue ReadingA royal rumble has been held over the past year or so for the Donald Trump Impression Championship belt, and though plenty of people have thrown their coiffed wig into the ring, anyone who has seen Anthony Atamanuik take the stage as the moldy Utz Cheese Ball currently serving as president knows who the top […]
Continue ReadingSince Donald Trump became president, this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner seemed pretty much doomed to be terrible. First Samantha Bee announced she will host her own Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner special, then outlets like Vanity Fair and The New Yorker canceled their WHCD parties, then over the weekend Trump announced that he […]
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