Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert chats with fellow late night host Samantha Bee about her thoughts on John Bolton, her Full Frontal Puerto Rico special airing tonight on TBS, attending March for Our Lives, and what she was like as a teenager: “Stephen, I was stealing cars when I […]
Continue ReadingWhile late night hosts Jordan Klepper and Samantha Bee were attending March for Our Lives in Washington DC over the weekend, Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. was busy checking out a very different event. In this segment from last night’s Daily Show, Wood heads to Helena, Montana to attend a March for Our Lives […]
Continue ReadingLast month, Conan O’Brien and his favorite coworker Jordan Schlansky headed to Italy to tape a new remote special, and while it doesn’t air on TBS for another two weeks, there’s still plenty of entertainment in O’Brien and Schlansky’s planning session, which you can check out above. What begins as a pretty typical planning session between these […]
Continue ReadingViacom, Comedy Central’s parent company, is keeping Daily Show host Trevor Noah in the fold for a while. The deal includes multiple platforms for Noah’s production shingle, Day Zero. It helps that Noah already has lined up with Paramount for the movie adaptation of his memoir, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, with […]
Continue ReadingAmerica’s funniest home videos have a new place to earn their amateur filmmakers some laughs and some money. GSN, aka the Game Show Network, has announced it has ordered Caroline & Friends to launch this summer. Hosted by comedian Caroline Rhea, this game show will find Rhea and two of her funny celebrity friends sifting […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Comedy Central ordered a game show from Reggie Watts called Taskmaster, and today the network released the trailer and premiere date. Hosted by Watts with co-host/creator Alex Horne, the half-hour series is based on the British game show of the same name and judges “five unwitting comedians as they compete against each other with […]
Continue ReadingShowtime’s series about the ‘70s standup scene in LA, I’m Dying Up Here, returns in May for season 2, and today the network released the trailer. Renewed for a 10-episode second season back in September, the ensemble cast — Melissa Leo, Ari Graynor, Erik Griffin, Clark Duke, Jake Lacy, Michael Angarano, RJ Cyler, Andrew Santino, Nicole […]
Continue ReadingCongrats to the comedians and funny writers named today to NBC’s Late Night Writers Workshop, an annual program “focused on exposing talented sketch and comedy writers to NBCUniversal’s late night & alternative line-up and readying them for a staff writer position.” Alumni include Chelsea Davison (“The Opposition with Jordan Klepper”), Jenny Hagel (“Late Night with […]
Continue ReadingWhen John Oliver’s announced his staff at HBO’s Last Week Tonight had made a parody of a children’s book about Vice President Mike Pence’s family rabbit, making the rabbit’s story about gay marriage instead, Oliver didn’t expect it’d actually sell as well as it did. “A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo” shot to […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the public spat between Donald Trump and Joe Biden this week (“The last time I saw two old dudes going at it like that, my local Walmart was down to its last bottle of prune juice”) and the growing […]
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