It’s been rumored since last year that TBS had plans to switch Conan O’Brien’s late night show to a half-hour format instead of an hour, and now the rumors are confirmed. Today, TBS announced that Conan will shift to a nightly and “less structured” 30-minute format in 2019. Here’s what O’Brien said about the big […]
Continue ReadingDonald Trump’s former physician Dr. Harold Bornstein is back in the news this week after admitting that the bizarre 2015 letter he released praising Trump’s “extraordinary” health was dictated by the president himself, so during last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Bornstein – played perfectly by Mike Myers – spent a few minutes chatting with Jimmy Kimmel about […]
Continue ReadingDuring last night’s episode of The Opposition, Jordan Klepper came to the defense of a man named Greg Piatek who recently made news after he was kicked out of a Manhattan bar in 2017 while wearing a “Make America Great Again Hat” because he was being verbally abusive to the bar staff, then he had his lawyer […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee breaks down the bizarre way women journalists rushed to Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s defense in the wake of Michelle Wolf’s very accurate jokes about her being a liar at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “Feminism doesn’t mean you can never make jokes about another woman […]
Continue ReadingGet ready for a lot more Ramy in your life. Hulu announced at its annual upfronts presentation today that it’s ordering Ramy, a sitcom based on the real life of stand-up comedian Ramy Youssef. The series takes viewers into the world of Ramy, a first generation American Muslim who is on a spiritual journey in […]
Continue ReadingCongrats to Justine Marino and Heidi Heaslet! After more than a year of live monthly shows in The Comedy Store’s Belly Room, Marino and Heaslet have sold their “Stand Up 2 the Streets” comedy dance competition as a TV series to E! The network announced it’ll adapt the live show as a one-hour TV series, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers chats with Kathy Griffin about the controversial photo she tweeted holding a bloody mask made to look like Donald Trump’s severed head last year, the ensuing backlash she received in the many months that came after it, and the time Jim Carrey reached to […]
Continue ReadingWill Ferrell and Molly Shannon are returning as Cord Hosenbeck and Tish Cattigan to provide their expert live commentary, this time for HBO. The network announced today that the Funny or Die-produced special The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish! will air on Saturday, May 19th starting at 7:30am and followed by a primetime […]
Continue ReadingThis year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner host Michelle Wolf has been the target of much outrage and debate since she gave a perfectly scathing performance over the weekend, and one of the many comedians coming to her defense is her former boss and WHCD host Seth Meyers. “She is filthy and she is mean, which […]
Continue ReadingSome parts of the Happy Ending gang are finding a new beginning in 2019 with a YouTube Red series that’ll star Adam Pally alongside Sam Richardson and Jay Pharoah. To wit: The creator of Happy Endings, David Caspe, that show’s writers Daniel Libman and Matthew Libman, executive producer Jamie Tarses, studio Sony Pictures TV, plus Dustin […]
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