Vir Das makes his American late-night TV debut on Conan

The most intriguing thing to me about Vir Das performing this routine on Conan isn’t readily apparent just by looking at this clip. But when I tell you that Tuesday night’s Conan also included Hank Azaria as a guest, then you’ll probably want to know, as I did, whether Azaria stuck around to hear Das mock fake […]

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TBS Renews Jason Jones and Samantha Bee’s ‘The Detour’ for a Third Season

Jason Jones and Samantha Bee’s TBS show just got a season renewal. The network announced today that it’s given The Detour starring Jones and Natalie Zea a season 3 renewal ahead of the show’s season 2 finale, which airs tonight at 10:00pm. For more on the show, check out our interview with Jones here.

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Kumail Nanjiani Tells Conan O’Brien About Sharing a Flight with a “Defiant, Fleshy” Pantless Passenger

Here’s a clip from Kumail Nanjiani’s visit to last night’s Conan, where he tells O’Brien about a particularly annoying flight where he sat across from a man who insisted on taking his pants off and resting both of his legs up in front of him, which forced all of the other passengers to be, as […]

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Brad Wenzel on Conan

Brad Wenzel returned to Conan last night, and not just so he could fire a zinger at Donald Trump. Wenzel acknowledged that his observations might not make you laugh as consistently or as loudly as a fart or a person falling down, but this set proves he’s got some funny observations all the same. Roll […]

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Behold Conan O’Brien’s $750 Goat

Yesterday, Conan O’Brien’s late night show had a sketch in the works that involved a goat, but after the sketch was cut — and after O’Brien found out that the show paid a whopping $750 to rent a real goat for a few hours — he decided that, sketch or no sketch, there was no […]

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Chris Gethard Tells Conan O’Brien About His Very Beautiful, Very Depressing Trip to Ireland

Here’s a clip from last night’s Conan, where Chris Gethard tells O’Brien about his recent trip to Ireland, where he got to visit his grandfather’s village, meet an old man who knew his relatives, and learn some of the most Irish stories about his family ever. “I called my mom from a field and said […]

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Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham are excited to announce the third season of “Playing House”

SAVE THE DATE, #Jammers! @PlayingHouseUSA SEASON 3 starts June 23 on @USA_Network – all eps VOD June 24! Summers lookin… MORE

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Ian Abramson’s shocking late-night debut on Conan

Ian Abramson made the most of his late-night TV debut on Conan on Monday night with a unique twist. And I’m not talking about that mustache. No, Abramson (who hosts/produces a live show and Comedy Central webseries called 7 Minutes in Purgatory) decided to strap a dog’s shock collar around his own neck and give […]

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Here’s the First Promo for Samantha Bee’s ‘Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner’

In January it was announced that Full Frontal host Samantha Bee was planning an alternative event to this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and today TBS released the first promo for the special. Titled the Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the special will air from DC’s Hinckley Hilton the same night as the regular […]

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Samantha Bee reminds us she was on the case of Russian hacking and fake news trolling BEFORE the election

While the FBI and Congress are still trying to figure out what happened in our presidential election of 2016 and who helped the Russians and how much the Russians meddled with us, Samantha Bee already knew. Bee told us all about it months ago, before Election Day. As she reminded us all on last night’s […]

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