Would you believe Saturday Night Live took home the most Emmy Awards in 2017? Weird, right. But without Game of Thrones, or Mad Men, or Breaking Bad, or The Sopranos before them, there was no eligible primetime drama that really caught America’s full attention as much as the news and the fact that the news […]
Continue ReadingDaily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper debuts his own late night series The Opposition next week, and in addition to announcing the show’s team of “Citizen Journalists,” today Comedy Central confirmed the full writing staff with us. Klepper’s fellow Daily Show alum Owen Parsons – who also worked on Klepper’s gun control special that aired earlier this […]
Continue ReadingLike last season, Saturday Night Live plans to air live across the country this year. The show confirmed the news today on Twitter: Live coast to coast. All season long. #SNL pic.twitter.com/aUvyKsqmNo — Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) September 19, 2017 As Variety notes, the episodes will air at 11:30pm Eastern, 10:30pm Central, 9:30pm Mountain, and […]
Continue ReadingAfter four decades and a couple of years, the folks on the West Coast and Rocky Mountains will get to watch SNL when the East Coast does, actually live on the TV. Sorry, Hawaii and Alaska. Double sorry, Guam. NBC announced today that it’ll air Saturday Night Live at 11:30 p.m. Eastern, 10:30 p.m. Central, 9:30 p.m. […]
Continue ReadingJordan Klepper will have his own news team of “Citizen Journalists” when he debuts The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper on Comedy Central next Monday night after The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Welcome Tim Baltz, Laura Grey, Aaron Jackson, Josh Sharp, Kobi Libii and Niccole Thurman! “Like the dodgeball captain I once longed to be, I finally got […]
Continue ReadingJordan Klepper’s new late night show debuts on Comedy Central next week, and today the network revealed that he’ll be joined by a round of correspondents – or, as they’re called on The Opposition, “Citizen Journalists.” According to the press release, Tim Baltz, Laura Grey, Aaron Jackson, Josh Sharp, Kobi Libii, and Niccole Thurman have […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Tonight Show, where Jimmy Fallon chats with John Cleese about being what Fallon describes as “very very very old” and the fact that Cleese has no fear of death. “It’s very nice being this old, because when you’re this old you’re gonna die soon, so you don’t give a fuck, […]
Continue ReadingJordan Klepper makes his late night hosting debut (not counting his turn subbing in for Trevor Noah on The Daily Show last year) a week from today, and Comedy Central just released a brand new promo for the show. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Klepper said that The Opposition takes inspiration […]
Continue ReadingABC wants to give viewers a head start with its new comedy The Mayor. Ordered to series back in May, the show officially debuts on Tuesday, October 3rd, but the network released the full pilot online today. The series is executive produced by Daveed Diggs and centers on a young rapper named Courtney Rose (Brandon Micheal Hall) […]
Continue ReadingThe 2017 Emmys were handed out last night, and in case you missed it, comedy made history in two categories. Lena Waithe became the first black woman to win the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series award for her work on Aziz Ansari’s Master of None (watch her fantastic acceptance speech here), while Donald Glover became […]
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