Kumail Nanjiani makes his Saturday Night Live hosting debut tomorrow night, and this week the show released two promos to get you excited. In the above clip, Nanjiani gets a little lost trying to find his way to Studio 8H, and in the below clip he appears with Aidy Bryant and musical guest P!nk, whose […]
Continue ReadingConsidering what a boys’ club late night comedy has always been, October 12, 2017 may go down as a historic day, as two new comedy talk shows hosted by women premiered last night: Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America, which airs on Hulu, and Robin Thede’s The Rundown on BET. About eight minutes into Silverman’s […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to the late-night TV hosting club, Robin Thede! Thursday night’s premiere of The Rundown with Robin Thede on BET proved that Thede had a lot more to offer than we saw in her brief tenure as head writer and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. As Tiffany Haddish likes to say, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at systemic sexism and how men like Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes, and Donald Trump use their power to bully their victims into silence for years. Meyers also notes how Republicans like Kellyanne Conway have tried to turn the Weinstein scandal […]
Continue ReadingAnother comedy series is heading to Hulu. Today the streaming network announced that the entire Futurama library, including all four movies, will be available on Monday, October 16th. Like 30 Rock, Futurama was previously available on Netflix, but Hulu will be its new exclusive home starting next week. Futurama joins a growing list of comedies recently […]
Continue ReadingBack in May, Showtime ordered a half-hour comedy series starring and executive produced by Frankie Shaw called SMILF, and today the network released the trailer. The semi-autobiographical series is based on Shaw’s award-winning 2014 short of the same name and centers on Shaw as Bridgette, “a young woman from South Boston whose desires for relationships, sex and […]
Continue ReadingEvery notable comedian has their “brand” or style of comedy, but Demetri Martin stands out more than most. If you’ve caught one of his specials on TV or were a fan of his show Important Things on Comedy Central, then you probably remember his unique gift for discovering the humor in words and drawings and […]
Continue ReadingThe day before his Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents taping, comedian Josh Johnson sat down with me in the green room of New Orleans’ Civic Theatre. One thing I noticed very quickly was that he was there to work. New Orleans is an easy city to get distracted in, especially if you feel like celebrating your […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee recaps the scandal surrounding Harvey Weinstein and the increasing amount of sexual harassment allegations against him, plus how Republicans have tried to turn the scandal into a partisan issue. “Look, both parties have had their share of sexual harassers and predators. This is about […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel chats with Marc Maron about how the world is definitely ending. “I like to hear people tell me ‘No it isn’t,’” Kimmel says. “But those people are getting harder to find, aren’t they?” Maron responds before talking with Kimmel about the idea of Kim […]
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