The Definitive Guide to Comedy
And for President Barack Obama’s last laughs with the White House Correspondents Association, his featured keynote speaking partner will be…Larry Wilmore! The WHCA announced Wilmore will deliver the annual address at the White House Correspondents Dinner on April 30, 2016. Wilmore began hosting The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on …
Neil Patrick Harris brought the primetime variety show back to broadcast network TV. But when NBC already had one successful live variety showcase in primetime (America’s Got Talent) and one very successful showman promising the best night ever every weeknight in late-night (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), how much …
Drennon Davis and Karen Kilgariff returned to Conan on Monday night to perform another song off of their EP, “I Don’t Care, I Like It.” And this song takes a moment to build toward its fun reveal. Although since you read the headline, perhaps you already know where it’s going. …
MADtv debuted on Oct. 14, 1995, 20 years after Saturday Night Live — and though the upstart FOX sketch comedy ensemble never unseated NBC’s SNL in the battle for late-night Saturday TV viewers, the show named for the long-running animated satirical magazine managed to produce plenty of comedy stars over its …
Saturday Night Live opened with a bit of a surprise — former SNL superstar Will Ferrell returned with his infamously successful of former President George W. Bush (the impersonation that gave us “strategery”) to announce he’d jump back into the race for 2016 and try to win a third term. …
Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Jermaine Fowler’s Give ‘Em Hell, Kid premieres tonight on Showtime, and the former co-star of truTV’s Friends of the People has emerged as a star in his own right. Fowler almost landed a sitcom on ABC’s fall schedule this year, then turning around and …
This week found Stephen Colbert welcoming a star and the director of the upcoming dark comedy about Wall Street’s 2008 collapse, The Big Short. But Colbert really wanted to look further back in time and comedy history to the years he spent with Steve Carell and Adam McKay in Chicago. …
Adam Lowitt joined The Daily Show with Jon Stewart back in 2002 and worked his way up to executive producer and writer, but only Wednesday night did Lowitt make his first full appearance in front of the camera as an official correspondent for the show, now hosted by Trevor Noah. …
Things I didn’t think I would see after 10 years. My wife. Excuse me: “My wife!” Sacha Baron Cohen resurrected his popular Borat character to make a surprise appearance on Wednesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, only so he could introduce Cohen’s next movie, a spy parody called The Brothers Grimsby. …
“How am I doing on time, Jimmy?” Kevin Nealon dished about Christmas gifts from his wife, surprises from her as well as from his 7-year-old son during his stand-up performance on Wednesday’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Then Fallon invited his former SNL buddy over for a panel chat in …
