Patton Oswalt Does Standup on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live,’ Mike Huckabee-Style

In case you weren’t aware, Mike Huckabee has taken it upon himself to become a terrible Twitter comedian recently, so during last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Patton Oswalt performed some of Huckabee’s jokes standup-style so we can all finally see Huckabee’s questionable sense of humor in live form. Oswalt does his best to elevate the […]

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Shaliek Jenkins (@hateshaliek) on Editing Videos and Going to the Internet

Shaliek Jenkins is a Los Angeles-based content creator, standup comedian, writer, and DJ hailing from New York. Jenkins is currently navigating the landscape of pitching an original series to some networks and platforms and trying to “belong” while carrying an air of avoidance at the same time. You can catch him DJ’ing at Brandon Wardell’s […]

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Help “The Daily Show” decide which Trump Tweet is craziest in this bracket competition

The Daily Show wants to know: What is the greatest Donald Trump Tweet of all time? It’s not a rhetorical… MORE

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Celeste Yim (@celestrogen) on Activism and Bits

Celeste Yim is a Toronto-based comedian. You can find her @celestrogen everywhere and can find her work at celestrogen.com. She’s a Bob Curry fellow at The Second City, where she’ll be putting up a revue at the end of April, and will be performing in Toronto SketchFest tonight with her troupe, The Follies. This week, […]

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Dan Harmon’s Naked Periscopes Are the Motivational Tool We Need to Beat 2017

At the start of 2017, mulling over the awful year that was and pressed down by one disheartening news alert after the other, some people started to fear that there was one high-profile death in 2016 that they maybe forgot to account for: the death of comedy Twitter. At some point between the ridiculous joke […]

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Talking Twitter with ‘Full Frontal’ Writer/Correspondent Ashley Nicole Black

Ashley Nicole Black is a writer and correspondent on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She dropped out of a PhD program at Northwestern University to study comedy at The Second City. Thank God it worked out. This week Black spoke to me about four of her favorite tweets, plus the Congressional Black Caucus, unpunished celebrity […]

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Talking Twitter with ‘Full Frontal’ Writer/Correspondent Ashley Nicole Black

Ashley Nicole Black is a writer and correspondent on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She dropped out of a PhD program at Northwestern University to study comedy at The Second City. Thank God it worked out. This week Black spoke to me about four of her favorite tweets, plus the Congressional Black Caucus, unpunished celebrity […]

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Alec Baldwin vs. James Adomian, a different kind of Trump vs. Bernie

Stand-up comedian James Adomian the Sanders half of the Trump vs. Bernie tour / special that everyone was rightfully obsessed… MORE

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@Alex3nglish on Ex-Boyfriends and Nervous Laughter

Alex English is a New York City based standup comedian, writer and actor by way of Detroit, MI. He has opened for such acts as Sasheer Zamata and James Adomian. He will be making his first appearance on season two of Seeso’s Night Train w/ Wyatt Cenac. This week he spoke to me about his […]

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@RekhalShankar Wants to Be a Void

Rekha Shankar is a comedy writer, performer, and video editor in Brooklyn. She improvises at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and writes for MTV News’s Decoded and Reductress. She has made videos for Clickhole and Funny or Die, and has worked on a pilot for comedian Hari Kondabolu. She also makes videos with the group […]

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