Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert chats with John Oliver about the return of his HBO show and the political mess the US is in right now thanks to our new president. “It feels like his inauguration day was 114 years ago,” Oliver says. “We have a long way to […]
Continue ReadingDuring last night’s episode of his TBS show, Conan O’Brien revealed two of the guests slated to appear on his next remote special Conan Without Borders: Made In Mexico next month. In addition to Rogue One star Diego Luna, O’Brien will chat with former Mexican President Vicente Fox during the special, and as O’Brien points […]
Continue ReadingHBO just revealed the season 6 premiere date for Veep. The network announced today that the show, which was renewed last year, will debut its sixth season on Sunday, April 16th at 10:30pm. Read our review of Veep’s fifth season here and our interview with showrunner David Mandel here.
Continue ReadingAhead of Last Week Tonight’s return to HBO this weekend, Rolling Stone sat down with John Oliver for a lengthy interview about comedy’s role in the Trump era, balancing his TV job with his newer job as a parent, how he chooses topics for long Last Week Tonight segments, and more. Here’s Oliver on the […]
Continue ReadingThe enterprising and lovable Ron Funches says he pitched his own character to play on the new NBC series Powerless, billed as the first comedy set in the DC Comics world. The show stars Vanessa Hudgens and the staff (played by Danny Pudi, Alan Tudyk, Christina Kirk, and Jennie Pierson) of an insurance company specializing […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah takes a closer look at Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon, whose rise in influence and power over Trump has made the Daily Show staff and many members of the press to believe that he’s really the new POTUS and just using Trump as […]
Continue ReadingSaturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment might turn into its own standalone show. According to Politico, the network is in talks to air a weekly half-hour edition of Weekend Update on Thursday nights. It would be a similar move to the Weekend Update Thursday specials from the 2008 election, except this time, the new weekly […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers holds his very own White House press briefing with Sean Spicer and asks him all the most important Donald Trump-related questions on Americans’ minds right now, including questions about Trump’s fear of stairs and slopes, his White House kitchen remodeling project, and, of course, […]
Continue ReadingFinally, with an episode that’s “like, so gay, dude” and that doesn’t fucking care, and that features one of the most lovingly crafted and executed cameos in the show’s history, Saturday Night Live has found its best current self. Political parody is — shocker!! — super hard to pull off at all, let alone week […]
Continue ReadingCBS has a new comedy pilot in the works. According to Deadline, the network has ordered a multi-cam pilot called Brothered Up, which follows “an emotionally guarded African-American cop who is partnered with an emotionally available Pakistani cop and they are forced to find a way to connect as they patrol a Detroit neighborhood.” The […]
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