Here’s a clip from Louis C.K.’s appearance on last night’s Late Show, where he and Stephen Colbert chat about lazy people who don’t “want” to vote, C.K.’s regret about sending out that long Trump rant email to his fans, and why our current president is on the most extreme level of being a liar. “Sometimes […]
Continue ReadingIliza Shlesinger has made no secret of her desire to join the ranks of late-night talk show hosts. Come May, she’ll have her chance, starting with a six-week trial run of Truth & Iliza on Freeform. “I’m so grateful to Freeform for inviting me to create a show that occupies a space between social commentary, […]
Continue ReadingIliza Shlesinger is getting her own late night show. Freeform announced today that it’s ordered six episodes of a weekly half-hour late night series hosted by Shlesinger that will share the same name as her podcast. Put into development last year, Truth & Iliza will include host’s “societal observations and sketches fueled by her opinions […]
Continue ReadingRed Eye, the late-night comedy and politics roundtable hosted in recent years by stand-up Tom Shillue, has reached its final destination. FOX News confirmed the show was ending this week, to be replaced by reruns. Greg Gutfield originally hosted Red Eye, which aired at 3 a.m. Eastern (midnight Pacific), and over the past decade, the […]
Continue ReadingDaily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper is getting his own show. According to The New York Times, Comedy Central has confirmed that it’s ordered a nightly late night series hosted by Klepper, which will air at 11:30pm from Monday through Thursday and debut sometime in the fall. The show — which is currently untitled — was […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central isn’t making the same mistake thrice. After letting former stand-out correspondents such as John Oliver and Samantha Bee leave The Daily Show for their own starring vehicles on HBO and TBS, Comedy Central will hold onto Jordan Klepper, giving him the plum post-Daily Show half-hour, starting weeknights this fall. “The choice to entrust […]
Continue ReadingMatt Thompson has been one of the driving forces behind FX’s Archer from the very beginning. Working alongside series creator Adam Reed, Thompson has served as executive producer since the animated, acclaimed project began in 2009, and he’s still with the show in that capacity this season as it moves to sister station FXX. Thompson […]
Continue ReadingThe Late Late Show with James Corden just celebrated hitting 10 million subscribers for its YouTube channel, and now the CBS late-night talk show is crossing another barrier. The show will cross the pond for a week of shows this June in Corden’s hometown of London. Specifically, broadcasting three special episodes from the historic Central […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where correspondent Roy Wood Jr. explains Black Twitter for the uninitiated (“Think of Black Twitter as Harlem: black folks made it cool, and now white people are trying to move in”) and learns about its impact and significance by chatting with Elon James White and Jamilah Lemieux, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the news that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn offered to testify about Trump’s Russia ties in exchange for immunity, how Flynn — and Trump’s — feelings on immunity have conveniently changed now, and the ways Trump is lashing […]
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