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What happens when The Late Late Show with James Corden writer Nate Fernald pitches himself as a substitute host for Corden? This is episode one of Fernald’s side project, with special guests Nina Dobrev and Chris Hardwick. Roll the clip!
“I got a hundred likes on the pictures, so this doesn’t really matter right now.” That’s Sam Jay making her late-night debut on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. She jokes about how we should lean into our stereotypes, and despite everything, still be nice to old white men. Roll the clip!
Kurt Braunohler has a new one-hour special (and comedy album) out now thanks to Comedy Central, and he’s about to become a brand-new dad, too. Which had Braunohler thinking dad jokes on Conan, as well as about the problems with dads in America. Roll the clip. You can check out …
San Diego (and New York City) may have their Comic-Cons, but Silicon Valley will have it’s first-ever Comic Conival this June, thanks to Nerdist leader Chris Hardwick. Only it’s not called Nerdist fest. This June 24-25, 2017, Hardwick presents the ID10T Music Festival & Comic Conival at the Shoreline Amphitheatre …
Fuse loves its Fluffy. In addition to the third season of Fluffy’s Food Adventures (the series formerly known as Fluffy Breaks Even), which returns July 11, 2017, the cable network announced not one, not two, not three but four separate webseries starring stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias. As Fluffy Breaks Even, …
Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs have stepped up from Broad City to the big screen. Aniello directs and co-writes Rough Night with Downs, which sees “five best friends from college (played by Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer, and Zoë Kravitz) reunite 10 years later for a …
Kevin McGahern, an Irish stand-up comedian who has hosted clip and sketch comedy TV series Republic of Telly when not telling jokes in Ireland’s comedy clubs, has come to America. Weird America, premiering the day after St. Patrick’s Day (2 p.m. Saturday, March 18) on the Travel Channel, will follow McGahern …
Lots of fascinating stuff comes out of Vulture’s new cover story interview with David Letterman, now almost two years removed from his reign on late-night TV. Take this excerpt, for example: There’s this idea that reducing Trump to a punchline could make him seem harmless or helps to normalize him. …
Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy will put on their own comedy and music festival this summer, and they’re taking it on the road across America. RFD-TV presents Jeff & Larry’s Backyard BBQ Festival, promoted exclusively by Live Nation, will feature the comedy of Jeff Foxworthy and Larry The Cable Guy, along …
The Umbilical Brothers aren’t actually brothers, but the comedy bond between Australians Shane Dundas and David Collins has lasted for three decades and taken them all over the world with their dynamic duo act that mixes mime, slapstick and stand-up. They’ve performed on late-night for Letterman and Leno, after James …
