The Stella shorts, which were filmed as companion pieces to their NYC live show and later collected on the rare Stella Shorts 1998-2002 DVD, are legendarily funny. They’re constant bit factories, firing jokes like a minigun. The shorts will upend their own narratives at a moment’s notice for the sake of a single throwaway riff. […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert catches up with his old Daily Show friend Ed Helms ahead of his Comedy Central Fake News special airing next week. The two reignite an old debate they started during their days together on The Daily Show that they both have very strong and […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee recaps the recent sexual harassment and assault allegations that have hit the world of TV journalism and exposed people like Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin, and Geraldo Rivera for the sexist, disgusting creeps they really are. But prior to the allegations against them, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Trump’s so-called “tough on crime” stance and how, through examples like Roy Moore, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Mike Flynn, and Paul Manafort, it’s clear what Trump really means when he claims to to take that approach. “Trump says he’s tough […]
Continue ReadingCafe’s new series Lil’ Alex Jones features a very young man doing his best Alex Jones impersonation. That’s essentially it. No, sorry, that’s precisely it. Sure, the injustices he’s wailing over are kid-ified but otherwise, everything is the same. Like, exactly, and man, some of it is pretty damn good. The strongest episode in the 7-installment mix seems to be “Censorship at the […]
Continue ReadingNatasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome’s Another Period returns to Comedy Central next month, and today the network released the trailer. Renewed prior to the season 2 premiere back in 2016, the series debuts its third season on Tuesday, January 23rd at 10:30pm following the season 5 premiere of Drunk History at 10:00pm. The season features […]
Continue ReadingBill Nye returns to Netflix later this month with the second season of his show Bill Nye Saves the World, and today the streaming network dropped the trailer. The show debuted its first season back in April then scored a season 2 renewal just two months after, and some guests slated to show up include […]
Continue ReadingAfter the success of last year’s All Def Comedy one-hour special, HBO ordered up a six-episode run of the All Def model, which premieres last Friday. The original Def Comedy Jam of the ‘90s shaped an entire generation of comics, including most of the roughly two dozen comedians chosen for the new series. I talked […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, where Citizen Journalists Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp go undercover as Arizona State University students to learn more about Turning Point USA, a billionaire-funded conservative student campus group founded by non-college grad Charlie Kirk that trolls liberals by protesting things like “safe spaces” and […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes a break from the regular breaking news to check in on how Rick Perry is doing these days over at the Department of Energy — an agency he had no previous experience with, said in 2011 he wanted to abolish, and meant that […]
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