Fred Savage to host summer FOX talk show spoof, “What Just Happened?”

Move over Chris Hardwick. Fred Savage will host his own after-show talk show, even though the show it’s talking about this summer isn’t an actual show. You get it? What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage will premiere Sunday, June 30, 2019, …

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Showtime plans four-part documentary series on The Comedy Store and Mitzi Shore

I’m Dying Up Here may have died after two seasons on Showtime, but the pay cable network is going directly to the source material for a new four-part docu-series about The Comedy Store and its late great owner Mitzi Shore. This is not news to any…

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NBC’s Late Night Writers Workshop class of 2019

Congrats to the seventh class of comedians chosen to participate earlier this month in NBC’s Late Night Writers Workshop: Jill Cepela, Dylan Eshbaugh, Shenovia Large, Alexandria McCale, Mona Mira and Chloe Radcliffe. They were picked from 1,000 applica…

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NBC’s Late Night Writers Workshop class of 2019

Congrats to the seventh class of comedians chosen to participate earlier this month in NBC’s Late Night Writers Workshop: Jill Cepela, Dylan Eshbaugh, Shenovia Large, Alexandria McCale, Mona Mira and Chloe Radcliffe. They were picked from 1,000 applica…

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Episode #257: Sara Schaefer

Sara Schaefer is a critically acclaimed stand-up comedian, writer, and producer currently based in Los Angeles. She was the co-host of MTV’s late-night show Nikki & Sara Live, which was born out of a podcast she started with Nikki Glaser in her Bro…

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New book details previously unrevealed stories from the night John Belushi died

A new book about West Hollywood’s notorious Sunset Strip hotel for superstars goes into deep details about the night comedy star John Belushi died from drugs. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau …

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Comedian who played president on TV elected actual president of Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky played the Ukrainian president on TV from 2015 to 2019, and now he’s just been elected the actual president. Zelensky won last week’s national election with 73.2 percent of the vote, defeating the incumbent Petro Poroshen…

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Leonard Ouzts on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Leonard Ouzts co-stars in the new NBC sitcom Abby’s, and on Thursday night, he performed stand-up on The Tonight Show to explain how much he learned from gaining a white friend in childhood. Roll the clip!

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Jon Rudnitsky on Conan

Jon Rudnitsky performed stand-up on Conan on Thursday night, or rather, showed us how much he’s jealous of theater actors and quarterbacks for what they can do onstage, and shows us exactly what he means by that. Roll the clip.

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FUSE channel files for bankruptcy

FUSE, the cable network that first broadcast Billy Eichner, is bankrupt. Fuse Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company fell on hard times, getting dropped from major cable systems such as Comcast and Verizon Fios, and missing l…

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