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Weird Al may have made the music video parody game on lockdown last week, but it’s a new day, and time for a new parody, thanks to Saturday Night Live star Jay Pharoah. Pharoah and Above Average (Broadway Video’s digital arm) released the music video just now for “Bad Kisser,” …
You can watch part one of episode one of The Jim Norton Show now on VICE.com. Norton’s studio audience is full of fans, but he still manages to allow viewers to warm up to him with his humble self-deprecation about his looks and his show’s debut. He jokes about how …
VICE announced today that it’ll debut its newest talk show online, as The Jim Norton Show will air on VICE.com starting next Wednesday — July 23, 2014 — hosted by stand-up comedian and radio personality Jim Norton. Norton filmed this limited-edition webseries of a talk show earlier this summer in New York City, with …
Dana Carvey did many things to entertain you Thursday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Carson — from playing a “Wheel of Impressions” with Fallon (in which they both dusted off impersonations of Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger), to performing his “Choppin’ Broccoli” song that won him a spot …
In the end, ’twas Yahoo! that raised Community from the dead. A last-minute reprieve, as NBCUniversal and Sony Pictures Television’s contracts on Dan Harmon and his cast of Greendale Community College characters would expire at the strike of July 1, 2014, the #sixseasons half of the cult comedy’s self-fulfilling prophecy …
Perhaps there will be no such thing as a late-night talk show in 2016. Perhaps there isn’t even now, when you consider how much of the content produced by Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien is passed around online the following day. So why not Netflix?! Chelsea …
Jerry Seinfeld hasn’t been like you for decades now. Even if you are, like him, a stand-up comedian. Even if you are, like him, making your own webseries. Case in point: As Seinfeld promotes his upcoming fourth season of his webseries, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, he does so via …
Happy Mondays all around to several comedians thanks to this news from Comedy Central: The network has ordered two new series — Another Period and Idiotsitter— and renewed three others, Inside Amy Schumer, Review and TripTank. Comedy Central President Kent Alterman also announced five original webseries coming out this summer and later this …
Last night, Kurt Braunohler snapped a photo of a room full of people in Chicago and typed on Instagram: “I cannot believe 22 people will live on a river for 7 days because I had a stupid idea. #roustabout” We cannot believe Braunohler still plans to go through his latest …
Comedian and former MADtv cast member Johnny Sanchez still has impersonations to show you, as he presents the “lost” Latino auditions for the X-Men film franchise. Here, Sanchez portrays Al Pacino and Wilmer Valderrama asking to join the team. But it’s when he’s channeling other stand-up comedians that you see …
