Tom Cotter and Samuel J. Comroe performed on America’s Got Talent: The Champions

Former America’s Got Talent finalists Tom Cotter and Samuel J. Comroe both returned for this season’s all-star champions competition. Cotter, facing Simon Cowell for the first time (Cowell wasn’t a judge when Cotter finished runner-up…

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Team Coco Orange now available as a paint color

A paint color specific to a comedian? What’s next? No, really. What’s next. I’m not in the brand partnership department, so I’m not sure what comes next in late-night TV tie-ins with commercial products, but now both ice cream f…

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Viceland asking comedians to host primetime VICE LIVE

Cable channel Viceland will debut a new, live, two-hour nightly show in primetime next month, hosted by three comedians and a rapper. Marie Faustin, Zack Fox, Sandy Honig and Fat Tony will anchor VICE LIVE from 9 to 11 p.m., Mondays-Thursdays starting …

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Steve Carell returning to TV with Netflix series, “Space Force”

It might not be The Office reunion you were looking for, but Steve Carell will return to starring in a TV series quite soon, with the guy who co-created his past hit sitcom. But Greg Daniels and Carell are taking their next office into space! Space For…

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Piff The Magic Dragon and Taylor Williamson perform on AGT: Champions

Piff The Magic Dragon may not have won America’s Got Talent, nor even advanced to the finals of AGT: Champions, but he revealed on Monday’s show that he’s already a winner. Just getting the AGT audition helped him stay in America, and…

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Drunk History museum exhibit opens at Paley Center in Beverly Hills

The Museum of Drunk History opens today for an exclusive run at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills through Jan. 20, 2019. The free exhibition from Comedy Central includes dioramas about each episode of the new season of Drunk History (which pr…

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Preacher Lawson advances to finals on America’s Got Talent: The Champions

Round one of AGT: The Champions aired Monday night on NBC, and if everything else proceeds as this did, we’ll see 10 all-stars perform each week, with one receiving a “golden buzzer” from the judges, one advancing thanks to votes from…

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9 comedians, 2 ventriloquists competing on America’s Got Talent: The Champions

American TV audiences will finally get to hear Susan Boyle sing in primetime. Boyle is one of 50 acts from the Got Talent franchise worldwide, and the first phenomenon from it, to participate in the first-ever all-star edition for NBC, called America&#…

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Watch Carol Burnett accept the first Carol Burnett Award from the Golden Globes (and read her acceptance speech)

“Does this mean I get to accept it every year? But you know, my first love growing up was the movies. I’d see as many as six to eight films a week with my grandmother who raised me. And then later, when I was a teenager, we got our first te…

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Netflix takes down Patriot Act episode about Saudi Arabia, but leaves it up on YouTube

If you think Donald Trump’s response to Saudi Arabia has been weak, then what do you make of Netflix? The streaming giant recently capitulated to the Saudi royals, pulling an episode of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj that questioned U.S. policy to…

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