A few seasons ago, Alex Hooper auditioned for America’s Got Talent with a roast format, and the audience wasn’t having it. In 2020, with no audience, and missing one judge, Hooper returned. With new roast jokes for each of the judges. ̶…
Continue ReadingIliza Shlesinger kicked off the second week of Jimmy Kimmel’s vacation by guest hosting Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, and I liked what she had to say about cancel culture. To wit: “When the internet first started it was a whi…
Continue ReadingThe folks at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe already long-ago called off this year’s August celebration, but some of the shows will still go on. Sort of. Digitally. On Comedy Central International. As reported in The Hollywood Reporter, Comedy Cent…
Continue ReadingThe second half of the final “Lean and Mean 16” competed in the inaugural TBS Tournament of Laughs on Sunday night. Here were the match-ups viewers could vote for: Preacher Lawson vs. Natasha Leggero Chip Chipperson (Jim Norton) vs. Paul Ro…
Continue ReadingPhoebe Robinson spent the better part of a year touring the world with former First Lady Michelle Obama, interviewing her to promote Obama’s book, “Becoming.” Now Robinson is becoming an even bigger promoter of authors with the launch…
Continue ReadingPhoebe Robinson spent the better part of a year touring the world with former First Lady Michelle Obama, interviewing her to promote Obama’s book, “Becoming.” Now Robinson is becoming an even bigger promoter of authors with the launch…
Continue ReadingAs reported first last week by New York mag’s Vulture, Comedy Central hopes to have Charlamagne Tha God hosting a weekly talk show on its TV channel before the November elections. Chris McCarthy (no relation) now runs Comedy Central as ViacomCBS&…
Continue ReadingAs reported first last week by New York mag’s Vulture, Comedy Central hopes to have Charlamagne Tha God hosting a weekly talk show on its TV channel before the November elections. Chris McCarthy (no relation) now runs Comedy Central as ViacomCBS&…
Continue ReadingBilly Eichner made a great guest-host for wherever they’re staging the quarantine editions of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Check out his fabulous monologue. I only wish he really did have a Cameo account. Spoiler alert?
Continue ReadingLaurie Kilmartin, stand-up comedian and writer for Conan on TBS, recently lost her mother to COVID-19. Kilmartin live-Tweeted her experience, as she had when her father died from lung cancer a few years earlier. But Kilmartin could spend those final ho…
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