Welcome to our series On the Verge, where our contributors highlight comedians they feel are ready for their next big break. Whether they’re already working in television or still waiting to land their breakout gig, these are just some of the comedians we’d like to see more of over the coming years — ideally with a show, film, or […]
Continue ReadingThe team at The Daily Show with Trevor Noah just added a new correspondent. According to Variety, Dulcé Sloan has been hired at the show as a correspondent and will make her debut sometime this week with an in-studio desk piece. Sloan was named a New Face at Just For Laughs in 2015, worked as […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s President Show, where Anthony Atamanuik’s Donald Trump heads to charm school in an attempt to learn the proper etiquette when it comes to handshakes, greeting world leaders, eating steak, basic world geography, and hand gestures. Unfortunately for Trump, though, the charm school seems to be haunted by a mysterious […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah welcomes “resident Ivanka Trump expert” Michelle Wolf to recap the many cases where Ivanka has claimed to care about progressive issues like climate change and equal pay despite ultimately supporting her father’s decisions like pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, the transgender military […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah takes a look at the latest news in the Trump-Russia collusion story, this time regarding emails Trump aide Felix Sater sent to Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen during the campaign in which he bragged about how he could “get Putin on this program,” “get Donald elected,” […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah takes a closer look at the recently pardoned Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio in a segment called “Profiles in Tremendousness: Pardon Edition.” After recapping some horrific examples of Arpaio’s long history of excessive force and abuse in his prisons as well as the over $140 […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s President Show, where Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump is joined by Steve Bannon (John Gemberling) and Mike Pence (Peter Grosz) for a new round of “Nice! Not Nice!” covering everything from miniskirts to lice to Hillary Clinton to history: “History: It’s old, it’s books, and I wasn’t there, so who cares?” […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a video Anthony Atamanuik’s President Show posted on Twitter today that’s two parts impressive and one part extremely terrifying – a roundup of the now multiple predictions the show has made that came true days and sometimes even minutes afterward. From Trump’s “many sides” comment in response to Charlottesville to his decision to stare […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah covers Trump’s campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona earlier this week, in which Trump inaccurately recapped his response to Charlottesville and conveniently left out that whole “on many sides” part. “You can’t leave out ‘on many sides.’ That was the whole reason people were mad. […]
Continue ReadingJordan Klepper’s Comedy Central late night show debuts next month, and today the network released the first trailer. Titled The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, the show was ordered to series back in April and will “satirize the hyperbolic, conspiracy-laden noise machine that is the alternative-media landscape on both the right and left.” Check out the […]
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