Ronny Chieng debuting Comedy Central summer series as app exclusive

Daily Show correspondent Ronny Chieng is getting his own TV show on Comedy Central, but you can only watch it via the network’s app. Ronny Chieng: International Student, will premiere as the network’s first-ever app exclusive original series on Monday, Aug. 13. All seven half-hour episodes will be available for streaming on the Comedy Central App. The […]

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Comedy Central assembling top-notch dais for Roast of Bruce Willis

Comedy Central has sometimes leaned into stunt casting celebrities for its roasts. How else to explain “The Situation”? The situation for 2018’s upcoming Roast of Bruce Willis is much more legit, stacked with stars who either have gravitas and/or deep connections to the roastee of honor. Of course, Comedy Central already had announced that Joseph […]

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Andy Huggins auditions for America’s Got Talent 2018

Andy Huggins is a stand-up comedian from Houston who has been in the game long enough to perform in the clubs at the same time as America’s Got Talent judge Howie Mandel. But Huggins jokingly told the judges this year before his audition that nap time is the best time. You could see Mandel figure […]

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Bryan Kellen auditions for America’s Got Talent 2018

Bryan Kellen received more stage time on Last Comic Standing than he did on this summer’s edition of America’s Got Talent. Strange but true. Roll the clip.

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“French Accent” Kevin Bennett wins over the crowd on America’s Got Talent 2018

It takes some je ne sais quoi to put on an eye patch, an accordian and a bad French accent to deliver one-liner puns for your audition on America’s Got Talent. But that’s just what Kevin Bennett, a comedian from Northern Colorado, did. Going by the name “French Accent,” he quickly got himself a bunch […]

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Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon join forces and Conan O’Brien, too, in joint monologue about Trump

In perhaps an unprecedented move (I’m still waiting for my interns to report back to me!), the hosts of three late-night shows on three different networks joined forces for a singular response to President Donald Trump. Because while we fight over immigration and racism and everything else, the president of the United States has decided […]

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Fallon sorry about playing nice with Trump; Trump, of course, not so nice

America has so many problems to deal with, just including new ones created by the Trump Administration, but of course, this guy occupying the White House has a cable-news alert set to anyone besmirching his name, so the unpresident has questioned Jimmy Fallon’s manhood. Yep. This is America. In a new interview with The Hollywood […]

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Roseanne without Roseanne: ABC orders The Conners to 10-episode season

After all this, ABC is still making more episodes of Roseanne. Just now, without Roseanne. The rumors quickly ramped up after ABC cancelled the once-revived hit thanks to Roseanne Barr’s racist Tweets, and it’s now official. The Conners, a spinoff of Roseanne, will come back this fall with 10 new episodes of the family, including John […]

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truTV announces 15 finalists for 2018 Comedy Breakout Initiative

Here are the 15 finalists announced last week for truTV’s Comedy Breakout Initiative, designed to find new and distinct voices to join truTV’s existing roster of unscripted comedy-based formats, which is currently toplined by Impractical Jokers, but also features The Chris Gethard Show, Talk Show the Game Show, Comedy Knockout, and Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks. […]

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MST3K celebrates 30th anniversary with tour featuring Jonah AND Joel

For the first time in 25 years, original Mystery Science Theater 3000 host and creator Joel Hodgson will put on the red jumpsuit for a live tour with current MST3K host Jonah Ray as part of the MST3K Live 30th Anniversary Tour. Tickets went on sale last week via AXS.com and local venue box offices for 42 […]

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