The annual song and dance of broadcast network Upfronts presentations sells advertisers on the need each May to book their 30 and 60-second commercials in primetime on their TV networks come September, with appearances by each network’s big stars and news personalities to make them feel all warm and fuzzy and keep spending their money. […]
Continue ReadingToday marks the 10-year anniversary of the Human Giant MTV 24-hour takeover. Starting at 12:00pm on May 18th, 2007 and ending at 12:00pm on May 19th, 2007, the cast of Human Giant (Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer) were allowed to show music videos, air episodes from season 1, and bring on guest comedians and performers. […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert chats with Matt Walsh about how Veep compares to our current reality, how they both got their start in improv, the time Walsh put his improv skills to use for a stranger’s wedding, his old day job singing telegrams with Adam McKay, and his […]
Continue ReadingBack when I was a lad in the nineteen-hundred and eighties, standup showcase shows were on cable television 24 hours a day, and I watched every single one of them. They were all good to me and my insatiable appetite for standup, but the big ones were on HBO. I seldom had access to HBO, […]
Continue ReadingBack when I was a lad in the nineteen-hundred and eighties, standup showcase shows were on cable television 24 hours a day, and I watched every single one of them. They were all good to me and my insatiable appetite for standup, but the big ones were on HBO. I seldom had access to HBO, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the recent news that FBI Director James Comey wrote a detailed memo after a meeting with Donald Trump that reveals Trump told Comey to drop the ongoing investigation against his former national security adviser Michael Flynn. While Meyers points out […]
Continue ReadingLongtime Saturday Night Live cast member Bobby Moynihan is moving on. Moynihan will appear in his final episode of SNL this weekend, which also marks the season 42 finale with host Dwayne Johnson. According to Deadline, Moynihan’s departure after this season was planned ahead of time, which led to him being cast in the CBS […]
Continue ReadingIt’s official. Bobby Moynihan’s final episode as a cast member of Saturday Night Live happens this Saturday with the season finale hosted by The Rock. Moynihan appeared across Manhattan today at the CBS Upfronts to help introduce the new sitcom he’s starring in, Me, Myself & I. Me, Myself & I will premiere this fall, airing Monday […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel briefly talks about how much Donald Trump lies and particularly how that affects and influences young people before introducing a Schoolhouse Rock parody that’s the perfect sendup of the era of “fake news” and “alternative facts” we’re currently stuck in thanks to the POTUS. It’s […]
Continue ReadingThis year ABC’s Downward Dog became the first network sitcom ever to be accepted at the Sundance Film Festival. Not bad for a show about a talking dog. While the talking-animal concept is one critics generally deride, it’s the opposite for Downward Dog, which has received critical acclaim for the way it smartly portrays the […]
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