Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver breaks down the “it’s part of our history” argument against taking down Confederate monuments by people who try to equate the Confederacy with fighting for anything aside from keeping slaves. “If the Confederacy was not about slavery, somebody should really go back in […]
Continue ReadingWhat does SNL want to be under Trump? This is the second weirdly apolitical show in a very political time. Last week’s only topical outings were the impression-palooza of a cold open and some hurricane/NFL stuff during Update. This week the cold open and part of Update were devoted to Las Vegas, but nothing was […]
Continue ReadingSomething remarkable happened on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. It wasn’t one of the many game shows within Fallon’s talk shows, or something his musical guest performed, or anything from Fallon’s monologue or from his overly enthusiastic interactions with his guests. Nor was it even particularly funny. After Hillary Clinton, the woman […]
Continue ReadingEarly this morning, my mom texted me about an MSNBC segment that aired last night on a group of psychiatrists and mental health experts who have banded together to warn that Donald Trump is “psychologically off the chain.” “Donald has a lot of scary monsters in his head like the short you showed me from the president show, […]
Continue ReadingMindy Kaling and Charlie Grandy’s NBC comedy series Champions is rounding out its cast. Deadline reports that Fortune Feimster has joined the show as a series regular, joining previously announced cast members Anders Holm, Andy Favreau, J.J. Totah, Mouzam Makkar, and Nina Wadia. The single-cam series centers on Holm as Vince, “a charismatic gym owner […]
Continue ReadingTo say the least, it’s been an awful week, but last night’s episode of The Chris Gethard Show (the perfectly titled “Everything Is Terrifying”) offered up a rare moment of positivity when Gethard’s mom called in to offer her son some words of encouragement and cheer up guest Michael Ian Black, who lost his own mother earlier […]
Continue ReadingTonight at 12:30 Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents will air a half hour that is arguably unlike any you’ve seen before. If this sounds like hyperbole, please know that the special involves giant sentient glowing crystals and excerpts from Melania Trump’s secret diary delivered by someone who refers to himself as a Space Prince. The half […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Trump continuing to brag about his terrible response to Puerto Rico and using Twitter to escalate the tension with North Korea. “So all the careful diplomacy and bargaining and angling just goes out the window with one tweet,” Meyers […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Conan, where O’Brien teams up Kumail Nanjiani for the latest installment of “Clueless Gamer,” where the two play Middle-earth: Shadow of War and O’Brien discovers that the soon-to-be SNL host also has a voice role in the game. “Here’s the thing, Conan. I’m a little nervous, because they wrote […]
Continue ReadingEvery so often you hear somebody say something like “Oh, I would love to do standup comedy, I’m just too shy.” And more often than not, they never do. Luckily for us, Anthony DeVito managed to overcome his shyness — so effectively, in fact, that this year alone he performed on The Late Show and […]
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