Billy Wayne Davis grew up in a small town in the South. How small? Davis will tell you in this stand-up performance from Thursday’s all-comedian episode of Conan (the other guests were Andrew Dice Clay and Jen Kirkman). Going back to his hometown, Davis also joked about realizing that some of their small-town sayings weren’t […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a fantastic clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee sits down for another chat with Masha Gessen, a Russian author and dissident who now lives in the US and knows a thing or two about what’s in store for the country with a president like Donald Trump. “Where are we in the […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a fantastic clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee sits down for another chat with Masha Gessen, a Russian author and dissident who now lives in the US and knows a thing or two about what’s in store for the country with a president like Donald Trump. “Where are we in the […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from Gad Elmaleh’s appearance on last night’s Conan, where he tells O’Brien what it was like to host the French version of Saturday Night Live, which aired its very first episode earlier this month — on a Thursday, of course, to give the show its own “French touch.” The episode included at […]
Continue Reading16 years ago, Fred Armisen made his TV debut on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Time to turn on the… MORE
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Before IFC’s Portlandia, and before NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Fred Armisen showed up on your TV screens in unusual ways and sometimes even without credit. Armisen performed a number of short videos for HBO in the late 1990s, for instance, that ran as interstitials between movies. He’d take one of his characters there, “Sgt. Fred,” […]
Continue ReadingSamantha Bee has moved to a new night, Wednesday’s on TBS, and with a new President coming in – why… MORE
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Here’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee covers Buzzfeed’s leaked “golden shower” Trump/Russia dossier — or as Bee calls it, “comedy Christmas.” “There is a high probability this story is bullshit, but the fact that it’s plausible bullshit is a terrifying statement about what our nation has come to,” Bee says. […]
Continue ReadingBecoming an aunt has provided Emily Heller with the proper perspective on both her parents’ capacity for love, as well as her abilities in comparison with her nephew. In Heller’s most recent stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan, she observed why certain children have to be kept on leashes, and how Donald Trump was the Air Bud of […]
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