Patton Oswalt on responsibilities and apologies

Patton Oswalt sat down last month with Washington Post reporter Elahe Izadi (a comedian herself in her spare time) for a spirited conversation about what it means to be a comedian in 2018. Izadi asked Oswalt how he navigates the line in a time when every Tweet is scrutinized, and comedians are taken to task […]

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Kevin Hart really isn’t letting Tiffany Haddish pay him back the money she owes him

This September comedians Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish will star in a movie together called Night School. The brother/sister friendship… MORE

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What it’s like to work as a woman in late-night TV comedy in 2018

You don’t have to be Nell Scovell to know the gender ratio is and always has been rather bleak for hiring women to write for late-night TV talk shows. Although Scovell, one of the rare women hired to write for David Letterman over multiple decades, certainly has crunched all of the numbers. Still, in 2018, […]

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Sacha Baron Cohen character exposed by California gun store owner

We saw four new Sacha Baron Cohen characters in his latest satirical stunt, Who Is America?, which debuted this past Sunday on Showtime. But a fifth character didn’t go over so well, as Baron Cohen found out last year and we only discovered this week, thanks to a California gun store owner who shared his […]

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Let’s watch some outtakes from season 43 of “Saturday Night Live”

It’s the middle of the summer which unfortunately means we’re getting no new episodes of Saturday Night Live. Good thing… MORE

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Let’s watch some outtakes from season 43 of “Saturday Night Live”

It’s the middle of the summer which unfortunately means we’re getting no new episodes of Saturday Night Live. Good thing… MORE

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Conan O’Brien helps his assistant buy a new car

Conan O’Brien is a good dude and he’d like to help those close to him. Queue up Sona, his longtime… MORE

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Listen to and read Doug Stanhope deliver eulogies for Sean Rouse

Doug Stanhope, who booked the late Sean Rouse on his Unbookables tour and captured it for a documentary, has written a beautiful eulogy to his friend over at Vulture. GO READ IT. If reading proves too difficult for you, for whatever reason, then you can listen to Stanhope along with pals Mat Becker, Chad Shank, […]

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Happy Independence Day! Here’s a supercut of Bill Burr roasting everything

It’s the 4th of July! The celebration of America. We can’t think of a more American art than stand-up comedy… MORE

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Here’s a first look at Bobcat Goldthwait’s new anthology series, “Misfits & Monsters”

For a long time the folks at truTV have been working with Bobcat Goldthwait to bring a new TV series… MORE

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