Stand-up and actor Jay Pharoah has been keeping busy since leaving the cast of Saturday Night Live last year — he’s… MORE
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Semi-frequent HOT97 guest Marlon Wayans was in the studio again recently, and the comic actor had a lot to say… MORE
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Is that Ed Helms? Or is that Ted Nelms? A little bit of both, as Helms dressed up in disguise for a fantasy sequence of a comedy sketch reuniting the gang from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for a special episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But truthfully, Helms is planning to […]
Continue ReadingWe’re one week away from Sarah Silverman’s new Netflix special, so here’s a sneak peek behind her curtains to see how Silverman prepares for a show. Her pre-show rituals are not normal. But they do include a cameo from Steve Agee and a breath mint. So there’s that! Roll the clip!
Continue ReadingAmy Schumer and Wanda Sykes co-star in new comedy Snatched, which is out next week – but before they can… MORE
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I’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 ReadingBill Hicks left a comic legacy and influenced at least a generation of stand-up comedians. One of the things Hick wrote offstage was his 12 Principles of Comedy. They were (reprinted via Chris Hardwick on Nerdist, circa 2009) 1. If you can be yourself on stage nobody else can be you and you have the […]
Continue ReadingFinally, the definitive guide to getting Bill Murray into your movie is here, thanks to McSweeney’s writer Keaton Patti. In… MORE
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The Academy Awards honor the year’s best work in film, from directing to acting to technical efforts like “sound mixing”… MORE
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Not since Tropic Thunder have we seen someone tackle the notion of “Oscar Bait” quite as accurately as Seth Meyers did last night on his NBC talker, Late Night with Seth Meyers. Here he was, in as the credits tell us if you didn’t blink and miss ’em, A Shoemaker Film, directed by Mike Karnell, […]
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