On Conan, Bob Newhart remembers meeting Don Rickles, and the joke thief who changed Newhart’s career

On Monday night’s Conan, Bob Newhart reminisced about his dearly departed friend, Don Rickles — they and their wives were fast friends for five decades. Newhart recalled the first night he and his wife got to see Rickles perform live in Las Vegas. Even though Rickles was performing late-night in a casino lounge, while Newhart […]

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Billy Eichner Makes a Strong Case for Why ‘Billy on the Street’ Deserves an Emmy This Year

Here’s a clip from Billy Eichner’s appearance on last night’s Late Night, where he makes a strong case for why Billy on the Street deserves to win the Outstanding Variety Sketch Series Emmy this year despite the steep competition of Saturday Night Live. “I know I’m just supposed to be nice and gracious and happy to be nominated, […]

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Seth Meyers on Trump’s War Against Leakers: “I Mean to Be Fair, It’s Not Like Trump Has Ever Lied”

Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Donald Trump’s New Jersey vacation, the launch of his so-called “Real News” program, Mueller’s growing investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia, and Trump’s decision to react to the investigation by attacking Hillary Clinton and White House staffers who leak to […]

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John Oliver Highlights “Vitamin D-Deficient Minion” Stephen Miller on ‘Last Week Tonight’

Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver recaps last week’s exchange between Jim Acosta and Trump’s policy advisor and “vitamin D-deficient Minion” Stephen Miller – or, as Oliver also calls him, “truly one of the most revolving humans — parentheses Minions — I have ever seen.” So it only makes […]

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Jay-Z “Moonlight” music video re-enacts Friends with black comedians

For everyone who thought 1990s hit sitcom Friends was too unrealistic or too white, Jay-Z and director Alan Yang are here for you. Yang (Master of None) directed the music video for Jay-Z’s new single, “Moonlight,” which dropped Friday afternoon. It’s a beat-by-beat re-enactment of a scene from Friends, with Jerrod Carmichael as Ross, Issa […]

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A new field reporter is hired in the third installment of Jeff Cerulli’s web series, “The Feed”

Jeff Cerulli’s hilarious web series about the silliness of internet news, The Feed just released its third episode. In this… MORE

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Take a Trip Through Donald Trump’s Failed Theme Weeks with ‘The Daily Show’

The Trump administration probably thought they had an amazing, cutesy idea when they decided to roll out White House “theme weeks” this year, but every single time a theme week was introduced – from “Infrastructure Week” to “Made in America Week” to “American Heroes Week” – the negative Trump news and mounting Russia investigation have […]

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Trump, Pence, Bannon, and Scaramucci Enjoy “White House Game Night” on ‘The President Show’

Here’s a clip from last night’s President Show, where Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump is joined by Mike Pence (Peter Grosz), Steve Bannon (John Gemberling), and the self-described “only fuckable guy in the White House” Anthony Scaramucci (Mario Cantone) for a fun, recent news-inspired edition of “White House Game Night.” During the game, Bannon assumes that one […]

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Seth Meyers Takes “A Closer Look” at the Russia Grand Jury News and Trump’s Alternate Reality

Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers covers a pile of the latest Trump news including his new proposed immigration policy, Stephen Miller’s comments at the White House press briefing, and Trump’s terrible poll numbers. “Those sound less like poll numbers and more like your wife yelling at you after you […]

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Brad Paisley’s Comedy Rodeo is set to bring a little bit country to the comedy game

Country superstar Brad Paisley will play ringleader to a 5 of his comedian friends for a comedy special that’s a… MORE

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