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Louie Anderson has a weekly date with Las Vegas, and it’s got him making observations about just how drunk some people can get. “I haven’t been that drunk. I’ve been that full!” Anderson said Tuesday night on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. But yes, please tell him about …
Las Vegas is going to be full of even more dummies after Thanksgiving. The world’s most popular ventriloquist, Jeff Dunham, will settle in for a six-month residency at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino starting Nov. 28. Dunham’s show, “Not Playing with a Full Deck,” will go on two times …
The latest episode of Sound Advice with Janessa Slater — Vanessa Bayer’s music chat show parody webseries she produces with her brother, Jonah, for Above Average — finds her misguided media coach Janessa Slater pestering Demi Lovato today. Roll the clip! At the beginning of the week, though, both Bayer …
If you’ve been to this summer’s Oddball Fest comedy tour, then you’ve probably seen Hannibal Buress saunter onstage sporting a jumpsuit with his face emblazoned across his chest, even larger than his real-life face. It’s even bolder than his previous move, releasing a single, “Gibberish Rap,” and bringing out a …
The PBS documentary series, Pioneers of Television, had interviewed Robin Williams extensively just recently for its portraits of him and other groundbreaking comedians of the past 60 years. So, when Williams tragically died last month at 63, they went back through the footage with him as well as with other …
The second season of Adam Devine’s House Party premieres tonight on Comedy Central at 10:30 p.m., before settling into its regular time slot, overnight Thursdays at 12:30 a.m. Eastern/Pacific (11:30 p.m. Central/Mountain). The Comic’s Comic interviewed Devine before season one of his “House Party” debuted in 2013. This year, Devine …
A season after hiring three-fourths of the sketch group Good Neighbor, two as cast members and one as a director of their digital shorts, Saturday Night Live has brought the fourth member on board as a writer for this, SNL’s 40th anniversary season! The Comic’s Comic has learned that Nick …
On Monday, Mel Brooks joined the select group of movie stars who have immortalized their handprints and footprints in the cement outside the iconic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Then Brooks told Conan O’Brien how he successfully snuck in an 11th finger — six fingers instead of five on his …
Rick Perry, you’re on notice! Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will head to Austin, Texas, for a week of shows leading up to Election Day 2014, broadcasting in the capital city where the indicted Texas governor still rules. “Democalypse 2014: South by South Mess” will be taped …
Craig Ferguson opened The Late Late Show tonight with a close-up of a framed photo of James Corden, the British comedian and actor who’ll take over for Ferguson as The Late Late Show‘s host in 2015. Earlier in the day, Ferguson had Tweeted congratulations to Corden. Congratulations to the spectacularly …
