Here’s a clip from last night’s President Show, where Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump is joined by Steve Bannon (John Gemberling) and Mike Pence (Peter Grosz) for a new round of “Nice! Not Nice!” covering everything from miniskirts to lice to Hillary Clinton to history: “History: It’s old, it’s books, and I wasn’t there, so who cares?” […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Weekend Update: Summer Edition special, where Alec Baldwin returned with his Donald Trump impression to reenact the campaign rally in Phoenix earlier this week. Like the real-life rally, SNL’s Trump is upstaged by Kenan Thompson as the sign-wielding “Blacks for Trump” guy, and later on, the recently fired Steve […]
Continue ReadingSeason 43 of Saturday Night Live now has a premiere date, host, and musical guest. Last night, the show revealed that Ryan Gosling will host the season 43 premiere on September 30th with musical guest Jay-Z: Season 43 premieres on September 30 with @RyanGosling and JAY-Z! #SNL pic.twitter.com/a2kdhJGVs0 — Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) August 25, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a video Anthony Atamanuik’s President Show posted on Twitter today that’s two parts impressive and one part extremely terrifying – a roundup of the now multiple predictions the show has made that came true days and sometimes even minutes afterward. From Trump’s “many sides” comment in response to Charlottesville to his decision to stare […]
Continue ReadingSteve Coogan’s Alan Partidge is returning to the BBC with two new television projects. Deadline reports that BBC Two will air a one-hour Alan Partridge special later this year to celebrate the character’s 25th anniversary since his 1992 BBC Radio debut. In addition to the special, Coogan will star in a new series as Partridge, which will […]
Continue ReadingThe 25th anniversary of Def Comedy Jam is not going unnoticed by Netflix. Sure, Russell Simmons has revived the brand for HBO, where it debuted originally in 1992, with a new season of All Def Comedy hosted by Tony Rock, coming this December. But before that happens, Netflix will celebrate Def Comedy Jam 25, with […]
Continue ReadingAre South Park marathons now Olympic events? The long-running satirical animated series livestreamed all of its then-234 episodes back-to-back in 2013 to celebrate the start of its 17th season on Comedy Central. Now Comedy Central is getting into the act for 2017! From the press release: 254 episodes. 127 hours. 4 Boys. 1 Town. The […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah covers Trump’s campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona earlier this week, in which Trump inaccurately recapped his response to Charlottesville and conveniently left out that whole “on many sides” part. “You can’t leave out ‘on many sides.’ That was the whole reason people were mad. […]
Continue ReadingSay what you want about magicians, but Deon Cole thinks comedy should be more like magic. “I look at comedy like magic. If I’ve got the ball in this hand and I shake my hand and it’s gone, that’s how punchlines should be. You shouldn’t be able to read that shit. It’s magic. If I […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central has a big South Park marathon planned next month that will lead up to its season 21 premiere. The network announced today that the eight-day South Park marathon will kick off Wednesday, September 6th and air 254 episodes for 127 hours, pausing along the way only for new episodes of The Daily Show with […]
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