In case you missed it, here’s a great clip from Friday’s Tonight Show featuring John Early and Kate Berlant, who performed a five-minute set together to promote their new Vimeo series 555 but used most of their big Tonight Show debut to really appreciate the moment than get into their jokes. “It’s not lost on […]
Continue ReadingLast week, Melissa McCarthy unexpectedly sieged the SNL stage with a studied and savage take on Sean Spicer that seems to have reignited everyone’s passion for the show. McCarthy’s frenzied Spicer was, as expected, immediately critiqued by Don and his friends (Spicer called it “mean,” so I guess he doesn’t check his @replies too much). […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver breaks down Donald Trump’s long relationship with false information and “alternative facts” thanks to his daily consumption of morning news shows and websites like Breitbart and Infowars. “Real people get hurt when you make policy based on false information. Billions will get spent […]
Continue Reading“It’s about giving America what it wants.” That’s why Leslie Jones says she wants to portray President Donald Trump in a short film that played during Saturday Night Live, but Lorne Michaels wasn’t having it. If only she had rage-screamed “I HAVE THE BEST TEMPERAMENT.” I’m telling you she would’ve gotten the gig, then. We […]
Continue Reading“It’s about giving America what it wants.” That’s why Leslie Jones says she wants to portray President Donald Trump in a short film that played during Saturday Night Live, but Lorne Michaels wasn’t having it. If only she had rage-screamed “I HAVE THE BEST TEMPERAMENT.” I’m telling you she would’ve gotten the gig, then. We […]
Continue ReadingLast year, HBO ordered a new standup special from comedian and NBC star Jerrod Carmichael, and today the network released the premiere date and trailer. Titled Jerrod Carmichael: 8, the special is slated to premiere on Saturday, March 11th at 10:00pm. Carmichael’s first HBO standup special Love at the Store aired back in 2014.
Continue ReadingHBO just revealed the premiere date for season 4 of Silicon Valley, which was renewed almost a year ago alongside Veep. The new season will debut on Sunday, April 23rd at 10:00pm. Also premiering on HBO over the coming months is season 6 of Girls (February 12th), Pete Holmes’s show Crashing (February 19th), season 6 […]
Continue ReadingBack in December, The Tonight Show hired four new writers to its staff, and if you were curious what kind of comedy they might bring to the show, look no further than this clip from last night written by Colin Elzie and Sage Boggs and starring the wonderful Jo Firestone as Trump’s new and terrifyingly […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert heads to the confessional for a new round of “Midnight Confessions” to come clean about some of his recent sins. Sins like: “I’m a man in his 50s who eats like a man in his 20s who doesn’t plan to make it to his […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at how Donald Trump has been abusing his presidential power in a growing list of ways, from his tweets about Nordstrom’s decision to pull his daughter’s fashion line to last night’s court ruling on the Muslim ban to attacking the […]
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