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Myq Kaplan not only passed his audition, but also survived the “Judges’ Cuts” round this week on America’s Got Talent, currently in its 10th season on NBC. On Tuesday night’s episode, we saw Kaplan joke about and with his long-distance girlfriend, and impress the judges with his quick wit. So …
Following a two-week break from late-night, Jimmy Fallon took to explaining why his absence from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon started a day earlier than planned. “I tripped and fell in my kitchen,” he said from his TV desk following Monday night’s monologue. Fallon blamed the fall on his …
While most comedians are angling for solo hour specials on Comedy Central, Netflix, HBO, Showtime or EPIX, Jeff Dunham and his dummies are headed straight for primetime network TV, lining up an hour on NBC at the end of summer 2015. “Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood,” will air Thursday, Sept. …
A lot has been clickbaited around the Internet about an hourlong conversation Michael Eisner conducted with Goldie Hawn last week at the Aspen Ideas Festival, where Eisner is on the board of trustees. Everyone focused on a small part of what Eisner said while paying Hawn a compliment, when he …
You’ve never seen anyone onstage quite like Bridget Everett, and after this week, you’ll never seen anyone up close and personal as you have Everett. The cabaret queen closes out the third season of Inside Amy Schumer tonight with a musical number, performs her hit Off-Broadway show “Rock Bottom” four …
Two months after fans and crew of The Simpsons began imagining an animated world of Springfield without the voices of Harry Shearer, it’s all going to be just fine. Shearer, who has voiced Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman, Lenny Leonard, Dr. Hibbert and more since …
Jim Gaffigan turns 49 today, but he has given the comedy scene a big fat birthday present, too, by casting so many comedians in the first season of his new TV Land series, The Jim Gaffigan Show, which premieres July 15. Just look! Of course I had to screengrab the …
John Roy recognizes that even though he’s an adult, he still dresses himself like a 12-year-old boy, and sometimes lives like one, too. Maybe don’t try this at home, people?! Leave it to the professional stand-up comedians of 2015. Roy also jokes on Thursday night’s Conan about recognizing the differences …
Last week, President Barack Obama visited comedian Marc Maron’s garage in the hills outside Los Angeles to record a podcast. This week, Stephen Colbert took over a public access cable-TV program in a small town south of Detroit and interviewed the program’s regular hosts as well as superstar rapper Eminem. …
Blink and you may have missed it last night, but only if your blinks last a New York Minute — because that’s how long it took for America’s Got Talent to show us brief teases of comedians Myq Kaplan and Gary Vider from their auditions this season. Don’t worry. You’ll …
