Netflix has revealed the title, premiere date, and guest lineup of David Letterman’s new talk show. Titled My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, the six-episode, hourlong series debuts next Friday, January 12th with a pretty big first guest: President Barack Obama. Other guests slated to show up throughout the series include George […]
Continue ReadingKilling time before the show with my feature act, eating Subway in some comedy condo somewhere, we’d play each other the bits that impressed us the most. I always played “Peanut Brittle.” It comes from Paul F. Tompkins’s 2007 album Impersonal. I imagine he called it that because the tracks are observations and not the biographical stories you […]
Continue ReadingStandup, podcaster, and Conan writer Laurie Kilmartin has a new book out next month. Titled Dead People Suck: A Guide for Survivors of the Newly Departed, the book is described as an “honest, irreverent, laugh-out-loud guide to coping with death and dying” and is inspired by her experience grieving the death of her father in […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah recaps the excerpts that have been published from Michael Wolff’s explosive but questionably dependable new book about the Trump White House, and why the Trump team dismissing it as “full of false and fraudulent claims” is pretty damn rich. “Look, as entertaining as it […]
Continue ReadingABC has pulled the plug on its freshman comedy The Mayor. According to Deadline, the network has canceled the Daveed Diggs-produced series, which was ordered to series back in May and debuted in October. 9 of the show’s 13 episodes have aired so far, and for now The Mayor’s return time slot will instead be […]
Continue ReadingWelcome back, dear readers. Do you already need a break from the grind? Well, do you? Okay, good. Here’s that break. It’s directed by a visionary Lorelei Ramirez, and written with a beautifully insane Peter Mills Weiss. It’s Bjork and it will probably change everything about your Wednesday. Luke is executive producer at CollegeHumor/Big Breakfast and a […]
Continue ReadingThe end is near for New Girl. According to The Wrap, the series – which was renewed for a seventh and final season back in May 2017 – will return to Fox Tuesday, April 10th at 9:30pm then wrap up its 8-episode run with an hourlong series finale on Tuesday, May 15th. The new season […]
Continue ReadingTom Segura returns to Netflix next week with his second standup special for the streaming network. Titled Disgraceful, the special was filmed at the Paramount Theatre in Denver and follows his last special, Mostly Stories, which debuted back in January 2016. Check out the trailer above, and catch the rest when Disgraceful premieres on Netflix […]
Continue ReadingBack in 2016 it was reported that Workaholics stars Adam Devine, Anders Holm, and Blake Anderson were set to star in a Netflix comedy together called Game Over, Man!, and today the streaming network released the first trailer. Produced by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Scott Rudin, and director/fellow Workaholics alum Kyle Newacheck, the movie centers […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central’s late night lineup is going live the night Donald Trump is slated to deliver his first State of the Union address. According to Deadline, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and The Opposition with Jordan Klepper will air live episodes the same evening as Trump’s address on Tuesday, January 30th at 11:00pm at […]
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