The upcoming season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will be its last, but don’t worry – it might also head to the big screen afterward. According to Deadline, the show will wrap up its run after its fourth season of the show, which premieres its first six episodes on Netflix Wednesday, May 30th. Netflix and Universal […]
Continue ReadingActors, writers, and frequent collaborators Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Maya & Marty, The Last O.G.) have a new show heading to IFC. The network announced today that it’s ordered a musical variety sketch show from the duo titled Sherman’s Showcase, which counts John Legend as an executive producer. The […]
Continue ReadingThe comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been rumored since last year that TBS had plans to switch Conan O’Brien’s late night show to a half-hour format instead of an hour, and now the rumors are confirmed. Today, TBS announced that Conan will shift to a nightly and “less structured” 30-minute format in 2019. Here’s what O’Brien said about the big […]
Continue ReadingStandup Brandon Wardell must be extremely aware of how many views ASMR videos get on YouTube, because he’s tapping into that crinkle- and whisper-loving market for his new comedy album. Announced today, Brandon Wardell: An ASMR Album will be available on Friday, June 1st through producer Ricky Reed’s label Nice Life. “What started as a […]
Continue ReadingDonald Trump’s former physician Dr. Harold Bornstein is back in the news this week after admitting that the bizarre 2015 letter he released praising Trump’s “extraordinary” health was dictated by the president himself, so during last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Bornstein – played perfectly by Mike Myers – spent a few minutes chatting with Jimmy Kimmel about […]
Continue ReadingDuring last night’s episode of The Opposition, Jordan Klepper came to the defense of a man named Greg Piatek who recently made news after he was kicked out of a Manhattan bar in 2017 while wearing a “Make America Great Again Hat” because he was being verbally abusive to the bar staff, then he had his lawyer […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee breaks down the bizarre way women journalists rushed to Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s defense in the wake of Michelle Wolf’s very accurate jokes about her being a liar at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “Feminism doesn’t mean you can never make jokes about another woman […]
Continue ReadingComedians and longtime UCB performing partners Jackie Jennings and James Dwyer made a pledge this time last year: to spend one full day traveling from Guy Fieri’s restaurant in Times Square, NYC to Guy Fieri’s restaurant in Cancun, Mexico. They’d document their journey in real time via Facebook Live as they ate at both spots and tried […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers chats with Kathy Griffin about the controversial photo she tweeted holding a bloody mask made to look like Donald Trump’s severed head last year, the ensuing backlash she received in the many months that came after it, and the time Jim Carrey reached to […]
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