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I watched comedian Sean Patton make his network television debut last night on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and sitting in the studio audience, I knew he'd knocked it out of the park. He had Fallon buckling over with the laughter, he had The Roots laughing loudly and often, …
While I was catching up on my sleep this Saturday, Peter Kafka over at All Things Digital noticed that NBC had removed pretty much all evidence of Conan O'Brien from its online resources — both NBC.com and Hulu.com alike bring up nothing from Conan's 17 years of late-night hosting (save …
NBC has been running new ads for its upcoming show, The Marriage Ref, and by the initial looks of it — plus reports back to me from people who have been in the studio audience — there will be some funny unscripted moments as the celebrities and comedians weigh in …
FX announced this week that it would launch Louis CK's new original sitcom, Louie, on Thursday, April 1. April Fool's Day, indeed. The first season's 13 episodes will air at 10 p.m. Thursdays. There's not much on the cable channel's program site yet, but there is a 30-second promotional clip, …
With all of the talk at Sundance and everywhere else in the past year about how Louis CK is such a great stand-up comedian who is able to make us laugh while sometimes delving into dark and offensive territory, I thought it's about time you all took another look at …
My expectations aren't exactly high for this week's episode of Saturday Night Live, even though Ashton Kutcher has hosted the program before. I don't know. Maybe it's all of his Twitter "fame" and his camera commercials that makes me suspicious that something has gone awry in his sense of humor …
More than a few actors and comedians have told me that you cannot always trust the IMDB. And true to that, the Internet movie database does not apparently know that David Letterman starred in his own half-hour special for HBO in 1981, the year before he began hosting Late Night …
Jon Hamm hosted one of the best episodes of the 34th season, so why wouldn't he host one of the best this season? Well, er, um, hmmm. As this week's episode of Saturday Night Live got underway, I found myself thinking we were living the exact opposite of the popular …
This video has circulated in the past day or so, thanks in part to Robert Reich himself posting it to Talking Points Memo, but it dates back to July 22, 2005, if IMDB is to be believed. Yes. It's funny to see Conan O'Brien team up as buddy cops with …
Like I said, Sarah Silverman took part in a conference call this afternoon to talk about season three of The Sarah Silverman Program, which debuts Feb. 4 on Comedy Central — and also on Logo, the gay and lesbian cable channel that helped fund production costs for the third season. …