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Laurie Kilmartin’s new stand-up album is filled with jokes about her dead dad, as you can see from the title or just listen to find out for yourself. But for her most recent performance on Conan, Kilmartin wanted to crack fun at raising her son as a single mom, and …
Mark Normand has a great new hour of stand-up available through Comedy Central called “Don’t Be Yourself,” and yet back again on Conan, Normand is letting us know what he thinks and how he feels about babies, transgender bathrooms, racism and relationships. Roll the clip!
Rachel Bloom has won a Golden Globe and two different awards from critics for her starring role in The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and been up for multiple Emmy Awards in recent years. But as Hollywood’s “For Your Consideration” Emmy campaigning hits full steam seemingly across all of Los Angeles, Bloom …
Loved the debut last night of The Jim Jefferies Show on Comedy Central. Even excluding the A-list celebrity cameo by Brad Pitt as the show’s weatherman to deliver our forecast in the wake of President Trump’s pull-out from the Paris global climate agreement. Something about the tone and posture of …
I’m a big fan of Amber Ruffin’s on-air contributions to NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, but this bit takes the cake and eats it, too. Meyers hosted a segment called “Point, Counterpoint” in which two of his writers, Ruffin and Ally Hord, would debate the merits of the new …
Stand-up comedian Ben Bailey has won four Daytime Emmy Awards for hosting the game show, Cash Cab, on Discovery. So why would anyone else take the wheel when Discovery revives the series this fall? Exactly. Discovery announced the U-turn today. “Holy #%$&!! Cash Cab is back!!!” Bailey said. “HUGE thanks …
In case you missed it, here’s a little bit of what went down at Comedy Central’s first-ever Colossal Clusterfest festival in San Francisco over the weekend. Courtesy of a 90-minute TV special on Comedy Central, hosted by Chris Hardwick, with highlights from network programming like Broad City, Problematic with Moshe …
Kevin Hart has a new memoir out, “I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons,” and he sat down with CBS Sunday Morning to talk about his childhood growing up poor in Philadelphia and finding the funny in his family. Hart will appear this coming weekend at BookCon in New York …
Casey Crawford‘s not a lumberjack, but he’s OK. He jokes all night and he sleeps all day. Or so you might think. Straight from The Comedy Studio in Cambridge, Mass., to Hollywood, Calif., Crawford made his TV debut on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Roll the clip.
Comedians and folks within the industry have caught the bug on Puddles Pity Party already, but for many millions of Americans, tonight’s season premiere of America’s Got Talent was their first taste of the sad clown with the bellowing singing voice. Roll the clip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tyr92K218M
