Last year, Harry Shearer revealed in an interview that he was working on a Derek Smalls solo album, and now the album – titled Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing) – has a release date. In a music video for the title track released this week, Smalls revealed that the album was “made possible by a […]
Continue ReadingKristen Wiig has a new TV project in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Apple has given a 10-episode series order to a half-hour comedy starring Wiig and produced by Reese Witherspoon based on Chris Sittenfeld’s short story collection You Think It, I’ll Say It, which is slated to hit bookstores in April. Not much else […]
Continue ReadingKatt Williams views his live show as a conversation between himself and a room full of his friends, friends he’s made by touring the country and returning to cities again and again. In his new special Great America, which just dropped on Netflix, he opens with a masterful display of his particular art of conversation […]
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 ReadingDonald Glover’s Atlanta doesn’t return to FX until March, but the network recently released some super-slick teasers to get you excited. Renewed back in 2016, the show returns to FX on Thursday, March 1st at 10:00pm, and season 2 has a new title: Atlanta Robbin’ Season. “Robbin’ season is the time before Christmas in Atlanta where […]
Continue Reading“Comedy Central Is Corporate.” That’s what was on some mysterious billboards in Los Angeles and New York recently, without much else to go off other than a date. For most people they didn’t know what the billboards were advertising, but there were three guys who had the inside scoop: Matt Ingebretson, Jake Weisman, and Pat […]
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 […]
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