SNL released a new installment today of its Creating Saturday Night Live web series, which offers a behind-the-scenes look at the show from the perspective of Leon Pendarvis, Eli Brueggemann, Lenny Pickett, and Hal Wilner of SNL music department. It’s a fascinating look at some of their favorite musical guests, what it’s like to collaborate […]
Continue Reading‘Structurally Sound’ is a recurring feature where each week a different structurally unusual, rule-breaking anomaly of an episode from a comedy series is examined. “This is what happens when we battle for the butts. We don’t let girls come between us.” Somehow the very DIY brand of comedy that capitalizes on “buds being buds” that’s […]
Continue ReadingJim Jefferies is headed to Comedy Central with a new late night show. According to Variety, the network has ordered 10 episodes of a weekly, half-hour late night series starring Jefferies, which was ordered to pilot last year. The show will “take on culture and politics” and “show Jeffries traveling around the world to take […]
Continue ReadingJim Jefferies is headed to Comedy Central with a new late night show. According to Variety, the network has ordered 10 episodes of a weekly, half-hour late night series starring Jefferies, which was ordered to pilot last year. The show will “take on culture and politics” and “show Jeffries traveling around the world to take […]
Continue ReadingKurt Braunohler doesn’t want you to trust him and he explains why in his first ever Comedy Central one-hour special Trust Me, premiering tonight at midnight. For Braunohler, this hour is part of his current comedy goal: to make the laughs mean something. “I want to get to a place that’s not just silly haha, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from former POTUS George W. Bush’s appearance on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where he looks back on the days Will Ferrell impersonated him on SNL and a meeting he had with Lorne Michaels at the time. “I had dinner with Lorne Michaels, the head of Saturday Night Live, and he said, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the recent news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with the Russian ambassador during the campaign despite claiming under oath during his confirmation hearing that he didn’t. “‘I met with him but I don’t know what you’re talking about, […]
Continue ReadingWhen people said Trump would be good for comedy, they were thinking about punchlines, and not ratings. And yet, the first month for Americans living under President Donald Trump has sent them scurrying to different TV stations after their late local news than they had been watching just a couple of months ago. Just look […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Donald Trump’s address to Congress earlier this week and how the insanely low bar news pundits have set for Trump — by praising him for things like his “new tone” and sounding “presidential” — led to them salivating over […]
Continue ReadingConan O’Brien’s new remote special Conan Without Borders: Made In Mexico aired on TBS last night, and for his first episode aired in Mexico, O’Brien got a lot accomplished. In addition to practicing his jokes in Spanish, training as a luchador, guest starring as a cheese merchant in a Mexican telenovela, and getting some soccer […]
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