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James Corden took Wednesday off from work so he could stay at home with his wife and their new baby daughter. Which made it all the more fitting for Corden to ask Tim Minchin to perform Corden’s favorite Christmas song, “White Wine in the Sun.” Roll it.
Romesh Ranganathan dropped by The Late Late Show with James Corden last week, not so much to talk about life as a brown man in 2017, but more to joke about the hassles of parenting three children. With a particular emphasis here on toilet training and reading. Roll the clip.
The Television Academy announced some minor modifications to categories in its annual Emmy Awards, and one of the new changes for 2018 does impact the comedy world — especially James Corden, who with his production crew has been cleaning up in the variety categories the past couple of years. For …
First, the good news. The Screen Actors Guild wisely saw enough to appreciate the acting in The Big Sick that had eluded the Holllywood Foreign Press this awards season, as well as in the TV categories for Netflix’s GLOW. Plus more praise for the greatness of Get Out and Lady …
In other Saturday Night Live news heading into its Christmas episode before winter break, Lorne Michaels announced that Michael Che and Colin Jost have been named additional co-head writers of SNL, joining Kent Sublette and Bryan Tucker. Jost previously had served as a head writer for the long-running Emmy-winning variety …
Alec Baldwin, who won an Emmy for impersonating President Donald J. Trump on Saturday Night Live for the past year, wants to bring the parody to Broadway. “We may take the book and make it into a one-man show on Broadway,” Baldwin told Howard Stern this week. “Like Will Ferrell …
What, or who, could convince Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert to collaborate on a Christmas carol? The “King of All Media,” of course! All hail Howard Stern for this cheeky holiday truce in the late-night TV wars. Roll it! Chorus to the tune of Jingle Bells: We’re all …
Kevin Hart and his Laugh Out Loud network are coming to SiriusXM. Hart, SiriusXM and Lionsgate announced the agreement today, in which Hart will host a weekly show on the new Laugh Out Loud channel to debut early in 2018 on SiriusXM. Hart also will curate the radio channel. “I …
It’s no secret that Louis CK helped Tig Notaro break through into the mainstream by putting out her “Live” CD on his website, then by helping her sell her TV series One Mississippi to Amazon. But when Notaro learned about CK’s secret, about how he had abused other women in …
If you’ve already binged both seasons of Lady Dynamite and desperately need more Maria Bamford on your screen, then Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and God bless us everyone, for Ave Maria Bamford is here! The Bammer stars in a new 12-part holiday webseries for Topic (executive produced by Daniell Powell …
