Are there any four words that cause cringe in 2018 like “It’s a prank, bro”? Hordes of well-scrubbed YouTube boys have built careers around hollering that disclaimer after performing ridiculous acts in front of unsuspecting victims. Their videos are unanimously pretty dull, capable of eliciting shocked yawps at best before being forgotten by all but […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Tonight Show, where John Oliver chats with Jimmy Fallon about playing Zazu in the upcoming Lion King remake, his experience hugging Oprah at the Emmys, and what’s happening over at his HBO show Last Week Tonight — but due to legal reasons, he can’t really get into details quite […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Tonight Show, where John Oliver chats with Jimmy Fallon about playing Zazu in the upcoming Lion King remake, his experience hugging Oprah at the Emmys, and what’s happening over at his HBO show Last Week Tonight — but due to legal reasons, he can’t really get into details quite […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from Martin Short’s visit to last night’s Conan, where he takes a few minutes to roast his good and extremely pasty friend. “You’re pale. You make Mike Pence look like a character in Black Panther,” he tells O’Brien. “Barbra Streisand would clone you if she could. So much for the theory that […]
Continue ReadingRay Romano is the latest comedian to land a Netflix standup special. Deadline reports that the streaming network has ordered an hourlong special from Romano, who starred in Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s film The Big Sick last year. A release date has not yet been revealed, but surprisingly, it will make Romano’s first-ever […]
Continue ReadingA little over a month after huge layoffs at the company, another big change is coming to Funny or Die. According to Variety, after over ten years on the internet, Funny or Die’s website will move over to Vox Media’s platform in a multi-year partnership that will kick off this summer. Here’s more from Variety’s […]
Continue ReadingAmazon has ordered its first-ever animated series. According to The Wrap, the streaming network has given a series order to a half-hour animated dramedy titled Undone, which is co-created by BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and writer/producer Kate Purdy. The series centers on Alma, “a woman who discovers she has a new relationship with time after a […]
Continue ReadingThere’s a lot happening in the news right now, but thankfully, during last night’s Late Night Seth Meyers devoted some time to an important story flying under the radar: the West Virginia teachers’ strike over pay and benefits, which has now become the longest strike in the state’s history. “If there’s one takeaway from the […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert breaks down the story that unexpectedly took over the news yesterday when former Trump aide Sam Nunberg made his bizarre TV press tour – an unplanned event that really screwed up all the great jokes about tariffs Colbert had ready to go. “Nunberg took […]
Continue ReadingSeth Rogen has another TV project in the works. According to Deadline, Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s production company is in the early stages of developing a US adaptation of the British comedy series Plebs, which debuted on ITV2 back in 2013 and returns next month for its fourth season. Created by Sam Leifer and Tom Basden, […]
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