Mo Amer was a refugee, which when he became a touring stand-up comedian, made for some awkward conversations when he didn’t have a passport at Customs. As he explains in this performance on The Tonight Show. Roll the clip!
Continue ReadingLast summer, The Lonely Island performed live in concert for their first time as a band at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest in San Francisco. This summer, they’re going on their first tour. Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone today …
Continue ReadingIn 2019, Dane Cook is heading out for his first full national tour in six years, and he’s calling it his Tell It Like It Is tour, playing venues such as the Wang Theater in his hometown of Boston and Radio City Music Hall in New York City. How is it no…
Continue ReadingCongrats to Bo Burnham and the rest of this year’s WGA winners from the Writers Guild, announced Sunday night. Burnham jokingly pointed out in his acceptance speech that all the “losers” in his category would just have to go and have …
Continue ReadingIn case you missed it, yes, that was Marc Maron as Marc Maron, becoming Simpsonized as The Simpsons put in his WTF podcast as a subplot on Sunday night’s episode, getting Krusty the Clown to divulge some personal truths. Check it out! (Congrats, …
Continue ReadingThe David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. announced this month that the estate of the late Garry Shandling has bequeathed $15.2 million to the med school. Shandling, the comedian, actor, director, writer and producer who died in March 2016, earmarke…
Continue ReadingBack in the mid-2000s, Comedy Central boasted weekly episodes of The Showbiz Show with David Spade and Crank Yankers. Is it 2005 again? Both Spade and the prank phone-call puppets are returning to Comedy Central in 2019. This time, though, Spade will t…
Continue ReadingOn Steve Harvey’s show last week, Mo’Nique sat down and things got rather heated, rather quickly. You see, Mo’Nique is still mad about who did or did not have her back when she went public last year about Netflix not wanting to pay he…
Continue ReadingThe actual White House Correspondents’ Dinner may not feature any comedians in 2019. Which makes Samantha Bee’s Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner even more special its second time around. “I vowed never to host a NWHCD ever a…
Continue ReadingParamount Network announced that the next installment of its award-winning I Am documentary franchise will focus on the late great Richard Pryor. I Am Richard Pryor will have its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 12, then debut on Paramount…
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