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Romesh Ranganathan will star in his own docu-comedy series for Showtime,Just Another Immigrant, with two half-hour episodes airing on Fridays for five weeks this summer, starting June 8, 2018. The series description, via Showtime: Just Another Immigrant follows Romesh Ranganathan, one of the most popular stand-ups in the UK, as he uproots …
Jim O’Heir is an Emmy-winning actor and comedian best known for co-starring as Jerry Gergich on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. He’s a Chicago guy who trained at Second City in the 1980s, then thrived in an independent improv and sketch group called White Noise, which took him out to Hollywood. O’Heir enjoyed …
Michelle Wolf let ’em have it right from the get-go in her keynote address at the 2018 White House Correspondents Association Dinner. Wolf, acknowledging the audience might not know her, said she was 32, “10 years too young to host this event, and 20 years too old for Roy Moore.” …
Julio Torres, writer on Saturday Night Live and frequent collaborator/correspondent for Jimmy Fallon, returned to The Tonight Show on Friday to deliver a stand-up performance as “a carefree platinum blonde.” That’s not who he always was, tho. He has cared about significant matters, such as Cinderella’s glass slipper. Roll the …
Michael Palascak’s mother may have been more excited than he was to perform on Thursday’s Late Late Show with James Corden. But as he has to explain to her, you don’t need to be famous to have famous-people problems. Such as going to the wedding of your girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend. Roll …
You can run from your problems if your problems are location-based. So jokes Joe Machi on his most recent late-night performance, from Wednesday’s Conan. What about the problems other people only think he has, though? Roll the clip!
Move over Fluffy. Here comes Mr. Iglesias. Netflix announced today it has ordered a 10-episode season of Mr. Iglesias, a new multi-cam sitcom starring stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias, as well as two comedy specials from him to come. In his sitcom, Iglesias will star as a good-natured public high school teacher …
Normally the rotating networks who host the Emmy Awards each fall use it as an opportunity to showcase their star late-night talk-show host. NBC has done that before for both Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers. For 2018, though, they’re going with Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update duo of Colin Jost …
A jury of seven men and five women in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has returned a guilty verdict today against Bill Cosby on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. It was a retrial held a year after the initial criminal case brought forward by Andrea Constand. The jury had deadlocked last …
Comedy Central today announced the launch of The Creators Program, a new digital initiative to identify, develop and launch the next new things in comedy. Nate Dern, formerly artistic director at the UCB-NY, and more recently at Funny or Die, will head up the Creators team, which starts with five …
