Here’s a great segment from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee responds to the #MeToo backlash surrounding stories like the “Shitty Media Men” list and the recent debate surrounding the Aziz Ansari allegations. “What many fail to understand is that it doesn’t have to be rape to ruin your life, and it doesn’t have to […]
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 ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Sagel join Seth Meyers for a new installment of “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell.” The two cover everything from the Battle of the Sexes movie to The CW’s Black Lightning to America’s top-selling beers to a possible Call Me by Your Name […]
Continue ReadingIt’s become pretty easy to take shots at Jimmy Fallon. I certainly had some harsh words for the guy when I put together my 2017 late night Year in Review. We know what his problems are: Colbert is passing him in the ratings, his endless string of Wacky Celebrity Games is wearing thin, and oh […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at how Trump’s “shithole” immigration comments overshadowed all the other news over the weekend and how Trump responded to a question about the racist comments by saying “I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed” to reporters – […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Conan, where O’Brien shares why he decided to book a last-minute trip to Haiti to shoot his next remote special for TBS. “Now I have no idea what the president has against the people of Haiti, but if the president doesn’t like them, they must be lovely people. Which […]
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 ReadingConan O’Brien has revealed the location of his next remote special for TBS. On Twitter yesterday, O’Brien announced that his next Conan Without Borders special will take him to a country that’s been a big news headline lately thanks to Trump’s recent racist “shithole” comments: Still reeling from @realDonaldTrump’s very negative Yelp review of Haiti, […]
Continue ReadingThis week, IFC’s Portlandia launches its 8th season, it will also serve as the sketch show’s final season. So, it’s… MORE
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Ever 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 […]
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