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Iliza Shlesinger kicked off the second week of Jimmy Kimmel’s vacation by guest hosting Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, and I liked what she had to say about cancel culture. To wit: “When the internet first started it was a whimsical way to chat with your friends, send your …
The folks at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe already long-ago called off this year’s August celebration, but some of the shows will still go on. Sort of. Digitally. On Comedy Central International. As reported in The Hollywood Reporter, Comedy Central at the Edinburgh Fringe, a series of 10 short digital specials, …
The second half of the final “Lean and Mean 16” competed in the inaugural TBS Tournament of Laughs on Sunday night. Here were the match-ups viewers could vote for: Preacher Lawson vs. Natasha Leggero Chip Chipperson (Jim Norton) vs. Paul Rodriguez Tim Dillon vs. Fortune Feimster Triumph the Insult Comic …
Phoebe Robinson spent the better part of a year touring the world with former First Lady Michelle Obama, interviewing her to promote Obama’s book, “Becoming.” Now Robinson is becoming an even bigger promoter of authors with the launch of her own book imprint within Dutton/Plume. It’s called Tiny Reparations, the …
As reported first last week by New York mag’s Vulture, Comedy Central hopes to have Charlamagne Tha God hosting a weekly talk show on its TV channel before the November elections. Chris McCarthy (no relation) now runs Comedy Central as ViacomCBS’s head of the media conglomerate’s “Entertainment and Youth Group,” …
Billy Eichner made a great guest-host for wherever they’re staging the quarantine editions of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Check out his fabulous monologue. I only wish he really did have a Cameo account. Spoiler alert?
Laurie Kilmartin, stand-up comedian and writer for Conan on TBS, recently lost her mother to COVID-19. Kilmartin live-Tweeted her experience, as she had when her father died from lung cancer a few years earlier. But Kilmartin could spend those final hours with her father by his bedside, in home hospice. …
When the federal Small Business Administration finally released information this week on how they distributed $670 billion in available funds this spring through PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loans, comedy fans were quick to pounce on the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre for claiming massive sums for its training centers in New …
John Mulaney premiered John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch, a parody of children’s TV shows, last year on Netflix. He’ll make two more specials with the kids for Comedy Central. Comedy Central announced the news Tuesday. At least one of Mulaney’s two new Sack Lunch Bunch specials will come …
This shouldn’t shock anyone in 2020, but Just For Laughs pulled the plug on this fall’s JFL42 festival in Toronto. JFL announced the news Tuesday. Instead of taking place from Sept. 24 to Oct. 3, 2020, the ninth edition of Toronto’s JFL42 comedy festival will take place Sept. 23 – …
