White House Correspondents Dinner welcomes back Hasan Minhaj for 2020 keynote, plus Kenan Thompson as host

After a one-year overcorrection, the White House Correspondents Dinner is welcoming back comedians to speak to the assembled press and their political and celebrity guests in 2020. Hasan Minhaj, who previously delivered the keynote at the 2017 WHCD, wi…

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Episode #290: Lizz Winstead

Lizz Winstead is a Minnesotan through and through, even though she has spent the better part of the past three decades in New York City. Winstead first moved to New York to pursue her stand-up comedy career, became a segment producer for The Jon Stewar…

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Sabrina Jalees on A Little Late with Lilly Singh

Sabrina Jalees may call herself a daddy, but she’s still a lady daddy. And having a son comes with all sorts of decisions, and the weirdest one may be one of the first, as she explained in this performance on A Little Late with Lilly Singh.

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Lou Sanders on The Late Late Show with James Corden

Lou Sanders has found that her taste in men and her desire to have children both have evolved as she has gotten older. As she explains in this performance on Tuesday’s Late Late Show.

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Ty Barnett on Conan

Ty Barnett is a certain kind of man. Or rather, he’s a man of a certain age who cannot enjoy strip clubs like he used to, or scary movies with teenagers in them, for that matter. Barnett explained in this performance on Monday’s Conan.

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ABC goes live with The Conners for the 2020 New Hampshire presidential primary election

The broadcast networks have gone live with sitcoms before, from Roc to The Drew Carey Show to 30 Rock to Undateable. That’s FOX to ABC to NBC. But tonight’s live airings of The Conners for the East Coast and West Coast come with a twist: th…

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Jo Firestone on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Jo Firestone isn’t ready for a midlife crisis just yet, but she is finding herself at whatever turning point 33-year-old white women hit, which includes unfashionable choices, as she explained in this performance on Monday’s Tonight Show.

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Episode #289: Derek Gaines

Derek Gaines grew up outside of Philadelphia, and moved to New York City with his “6 Foot Nothing” crew after cementing his status as one of Philly’s Phunniest. After performing as a New Face in Montreal at Just For Laughs, Gaines began scoring TV cred…

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Steve Martin and Chris Rock deliver an opening monologue at the 2020 Academy Awards

If you’ve hosted the Oscars before, and you’re standing onstage again at the beginning of the awards show, but not considered the host, then what is that? “A demotion,” quipped Steve Martin, standing alongside Chris Rock to deli…

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Watch Adam Sandler accept best actor at the Independent Spirit Awards

Adam Sandler not only graciously accepted the Best Actor prize from the Independent Spirit Awards for his role in Uncut Gems, but the Sandman also amusingly reframed some of his box-office hits as indie films.

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