On Conan, Bob Newhart remembers meeting Don Rickles, and the joke thief who changed Newhart’s career

On Monday night’s Conan, Bob Newhart reminisced about his dearly departed friend, Don Rickles — they and their wives were fast friends for five decades. Newhart recalled the first night he and his wife got to see Rickles perform live in Las Vegas. Even though Rickles was performing late-night in a casino lounge, while Newhart […]

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New York Comedy Festival announces its initial schedule

New York Comedy Festival is going under a bit of a change for the 2017 year. Particularly their longterm relationship… MORE

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Samantha Bee, Nick Offerman, Conan O’Brien, and More Are Headed to the 2017 New York Comedy Festival

TBS has partnered up with this year’s New York Comedy Festival, and in addition to Conan O’Brien’s previously announced week of shows at the Apollo, the network just released a video where O’Brien reveals some of the many comedians slated to perform throughout the festival. This year’s festival runs from Tuesday, November 7th through Sunday […]

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Samantha Bee Stars in a Kris Kobach-Inspired ‘Racist Music Man’ on ‘Full Frontal’

Here’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee takes a closer look at the work of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach prior to becoming a member of Trump’s so-called “election integrity” commission – which, unsurprisingly, consisted of racist anti-immigration lobbying across the country for an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center […]

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TBS Renews ‘Angie Tribeca’ and Announces Premiere Dates for ‘Search Party’ and ‘The Last O.G.’

TBS just announced some comedy news. First up is a season 4 renewal for Angie Tribeca, which wrapped up its third season on the network last month. In addition to the Angie Tribeca renewal, TBS revealed premiere dates for new and returning comedies Search Party season 2, the Tracy Morgan-starring, Jordan Peele-produced The Last O.G., and Late […]

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Catching Up with Wyatt Cenac

With season 2 of TBS’ sci-fi comedy series People of Earth premiering tonight at 9:30pm, we thought it would be a good time to catch up with the star of the show, Wyatt Cenac. Cenac was working as a standup comic and writer for King of the Hill before he landed a regular spot as […]

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Jeff Goldblum Plays Superhero Psychotherapist Leonard Meshbesher on ‘Conan’

Conan O’Brien’s visit to Comic-Con continued on TBS last night, and during the episode the show was treated to a very special clip featuring Jeff Goldblum, who plays renowned superhero psychotherapist Leonard Meshbesher and leads therapy sessions with Professor X, Storm, Luke Skywalter, Darth Vader, Jon Snow, Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman to help them work through […]

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Jeff Goldblum Plays Superhero Psychotherapist Leonard Meshbesher on ‘Conan’

Conan O’Brien’s visit to Comic-Con continued on TBS last night, and during the episode the show was treated to a very special clip featuring Jeff Goldblum, who plays renowned superhero psychotherapist Leonard Meshbesher and leads therapy sessions with Professor X, Storm, Luke Skywalter, Darth Vader, Jon Snow, Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman to help them work through […]

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Samantha Bee Introduces the Members of Trump’s So-Called “Election Integrity” Commission on ‘Full Frontal’

If the names Kris Kobach, Hans von Spakovsky, and J. Christian Adams don’t ring a bell, you’re going to learn and get angry thanks to this new clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee takes a closer look at some members of Trump’s voter fraud commission – or as it’s officially called, the […]

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Conan O’Brien Heads to Comic-Con ‘Wonder Woman’-Style

Conan O’Brien kicked off his TBS show’s third visit to this San Diego’s Comic-Con last night, which will run through Sunday and features the casts of Game of Thrones, Supernatural, The Lego Ninjajo, and more. For last night’s special cold open, O’Brien put his practice doing the Wonder Woman workout back in May to the […]

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