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As far as we’re led to believe Maz Jobrani warms up his own audience for his newest stand-up special, I’m Not a Terrorist, But I’ve Played One On TV, which premiered Friday night on Showtime. Jobrani has guest-starred on TV in the likes of True Blood and Shameless, and appeared …
Sam Morril returned to Conan on Thursday night to deliver a kick-ass set packed with jokes. Should you be quizzed to pick up Claritin-D? Should you quiz anyone on dinosaurs? Can you tell a woman is angry by her facial expression? Why isn’t Magic Johnson the spokesperson for Trojan condoms? Do …
Stephen Colbert has said in multiple interviews this month that he brought pretty much his entire writing team from Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report with him a few blocks downtown to the Ed Sullivan Theatre and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. And CBS confirmed as much today. At least …
It’s no secret that some of Saturday Night Live‘s most striking work in recent years has not come via live TV, but come alive via lightning-quick production of thrilling tributes to film via short films. Think of the Wes Anderson Halloween tribute “New Horror Trailer,” Louis CK as Lincoln, or Ian …
It’s Throwback Thursday. Tomorrow is Flashback Friday. If you think reliving past memories and sharing them via social media is something, then get a load of what happens when Dana Gould plays a mad scientist who gives comedians Barbara Gray and Whitney Teubner fancy futuristic phones that can transport the …
Comedy Central may have gotten out of the “Fat Jew” business before the masses of protesting comedians got their way…but Josh Ostrovsky’s own countermeasure reveals just how deep the problem of Internet “curation” and “aggregation” goes. To wit. Ahem. Ostrovsky changed the bio of his popular Instagram “thefatjewish” to read …
We’ve reached the semifinal stages of Last Comic Standing, which means we have only a couple of hours to get the field of stand-up comedians narrowed down from 41 to our 10 finalists for Season 9. Actually, we only have this hour to cut 15 from 20 to make up …
Just in time. Rod Man, who won the eighth season of Last Comic Standing last summer, has earned himself a deal for a pilot script with NBC to develop his own starring vehicle in a multi-cam sitcom. Yes, the development year for Fall 2016 already begins in full earnest with network …
When is @midnight not at midnight? Well, for anyone in the Central and Mountain time zones of the United States, that’d be all the time that the time is off for Comedy Central’s popular comedian game show. But for even those of you who live on the coasts, it’ll be …
My friend Myq Kaplan performed Tuesday night during the second quarterfinal round of America’s Got Talent 2015, live on NBC from Radio City Music Hall. Kaplan started his short set with something he often does, referencing the acts who came before him — it’s a way to let the audience …
