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Wyatt Cenac is joining John Oliver and Jon Stewart in making the jump to HBO. HBO announced a new 10-episode late-night series starring Cenac that will debut in spring 2018. The untitled series stars Cenac, and will be executive produced by him alongside Oliver, Ezra Edelman and Hallie Haglund, who’ll …
Kumail Nanjiani hosted the Oct. 14, 2017, episode of Saturday Night Live (season 43, episode 3) and delivered a stand-up comedy monologue that was as funny as it was heartfelt. Much like his critically-acclaimed movie from earlier this year, The Big Sick. Nanjiani touched not only on how his Muslim …
Welcome to the late-night TV hosting club, Robin Thede! Thursday night’s premiere of The Rundown with Robin Thede on BET proved that Thede had a lot more to offer than we saw in her brief tenure as head writer and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. As …
Ismael Loutfi made his TV debut Thursday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, but don’t worry, Loutfi jokingly knows he’s ethnic but in a non-threatening “welcome to college” brochure way (as pictured above!). Loutfi was on a road trip from Tennessee to Atlanta on Election Night last November, and recounted the …
Rachel Feinstein’s parents are a disaster on Facebook. Embarrassing for Rachel and her friends, but funny when she explains it to us as she did on Wednesday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Roll the clip!
Technology has ruined some things these days, Nathan Macintosh argued in his performance Friday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Like phone calling and self check-out, for examples. Macintosh also yearns for the days when you could visit a video store to rent your next movie, because you might …
Something remarkable happened on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. It wasn’t one of the many game shows within Fallon’s talk shows, or something his musical guest performed, or anything from Fallon’s monologue or from his overly enthusiastic interactions with his guests. Nor was it even particularly …
Matt Goldich supplies monologue jokes and other punchlines for Seth Meyers on a nightly basis, but on Wednesday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, Goldich also got some major face time with a stand-up performance to promote his new album, which is out this Friday. Not a soft opening. Roll …
James Veitch is one of those fancy British comedians, and he brought something different with him across the pond to perform on Tuesday’s episode of Conan. Instead of a traditional stand-up set, Veitch performed with visual aids behind him, so you really could see how pesky of a flat mate …
Comedy acting couple Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen have a new partner for their program Hilarity For Charity (HFC), which raises awareness and money among millennials to help deal with and fight Alzheimer’s. It’s Netflix! I'm thrilled to announce that Netflix has joined HILARITY FOR CHARITY as a presenting …
