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YouTube’s official Upfronts presentation this morning featured several new exclusive webseries fronted by A-list celebrities, including Ellen DeGeneres, Demi Lovato and Kevin Hart. Hart will star in What The Fit?, a comedic fitness show appearing exclusively each week on Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Network channel on YouTube. He’ll join famous …
Sarah Tollemache made her network TV debut on Thursday night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and she recounts all the steps it took her to get there. Sort of. Tollemache also has some handy tips for getting out of debt. Roll the clip!
If you’re worried about healthcare, then perhaps you should listen to Joe List‘s experiences, as he joked on Thursday’s Conan. Turns it you really should ask the right questions before you go into surgery. Roll the clip!
The Chris Gethard Show lives! And will live on as a live national cable TV show, with 16 new hour-long episodes ordered by truTV. It had aired two seasons on Fusion, after making the leap from stage show at the UCB Theatre to community access TV and livestreaming from NYC. …
Eddie Pepitone has been called “The Bitter Buddha,” which also is the title of the 2012 documentary about the comedian, a New Yorker by birth who has called Los Angeles his home for the better part of the 21st century since landing a role in the hit movie, Old School. You’ve seen …
So it looks as though Jimmy Kimmel will continue showing how much David Letterman inspired him as a talk show host by also using his paternity leave to churn through guest hosts as one-night stands, rather than picking a semi-permanent replacement. For Wednesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, the show opened …
Just when you thought you’d never get called to Montreal’s New Faces at Just For Laughs because all of your comedy is on Snapchat and Instagram, and sometimes on YouTube, well, do I have news for you…(and my apologies to “Vine Stars”) Introducing New Faces: Creators. Deep in today’s announcement …
Iliza Shlesinger made no secret of wanting her own late-night talk show, and Tuesday night, she premiered Truth & Iliza on Freeform. It’s a weekly half-hour, each week built around a theme of Shlesinger’s choosing. For her debut, she chose “Well, What Can We Say.” The episode included an opening …
Just For Laughs has begun gearing up for the 35th anniversary of its biggest comedy confab in the world by announcing the initial slate of headliners, Gala hosts and other performers heading to Montreal this July. The biggest ticket? Jerry Seinfeld, in his first JFL Montreal since 1989, co-headlining with …
Will Durst wants me to publish this interview before the world ends. “There’s the possibility it could all end tomorrow,” Durst told me over the phone. “I mean it! Every morning we don’t wake up with a mushroom cloud is a victory.” Well, Durst told me this last week, so…so …
