Fresh off of the summer TCA rounds, BET has released this scene from the upcoming sketch-reality series The Comedy Get Down, starring Cedric The Entertainer, Eddie Griffin, D.L. Hughley, George Lopez and Charlie Murphy. In this scene, George, Ced and D.L. meet with one of their sponsors to try to negotiate the amount of N-words […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver recaps last week’s exchange between Jim Acosta and Trump’s policy advisor and “vitamin D-deficient Minion” Stephen Miller – or, as Oliver also calls him, “truly one of the most revolving humans — parentheses Minions — I have ever seen.” So it only makes […]
Continue ReadingFor everyone who thought 1990s hit sitcom Friends was too unrealistic or too white, Jay-Z and director Alan Yang are here for you. Yang (Master of None) directed the music video for Jay-Z’s new single, “Moonlight,” which dropped Friday afternoon. It’s a beat-by-beat re-enactment of a scene from Friends, with Jerrod Carmichael as Ross, Issa […]
Continue ReadingThe ABC television network may make a major production out of reviving all of our favorite game shows from the 1970s in primetime this summer. But nobody, not even the revived edition of Match Game (sorry, Alec Baldwin), has recaptured the great giddy aesthetic of Match Game like @midnight with Chris Hardwick, which ends a […]
Continue ReadingTwo weeks ago, @midnight host Chris Hardwick announced that the show would be ending its run tonight after airing its 600th episode. Since its inception in 2013, @midnight has won folks over with its style of having of having comedians take each other on in rapid-fire games centered on whatever wacky stories were making the rounds […]
Continue ReadingTwo weeks ago, @midnight host Chris Hardwick announced that the show would be ending its run tonight after airing its 600th episode. Since its inception in 2013, @midnight has won folks over with its style of having of having comedians take each other on in rapid-fire games centered on whatever wacky stories were making the rounds […]
Continue ReadingThe O.G. Karate Kid may look ageless, but Ralph Macchio is going to find out what it’s like to be grown-up Daniel LaRusso soon enough, as YouTube Red has outbid other streaming platforms for a 10-episode half-hour series called Cobra Kai. Cobra Kai will pick up three decades after the events of the original Karate […]
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration probably thought they had an amazing, cutesy idea when they decided to roll out White House “theme weeks” this year, but every single time a theme week was introduced – from “Infrastructure Week” to “Made in America Week” to “American Heroes Week” – the negative Trump news and mounting Russia investigation have […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s President Show, where Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump is joined by Mike Pence (Peter Grosz), Steve Bannon (John Gemberling), and the self-described “only fuckable guy in the White House” Anthony Scaramucci (Mario Cantone) for a fun, recent news-inspired edition of “White House Game Night.” During the game, Bannon assumes that one […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers covers a pile of the latest Trump news including his new proposed immigration policy, Stephen Miller’s comments at the White House press briefing, and Trump’s terrible poll numbers. “Those sound less like poll numbers and more like your wife yelling at you after you […]
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