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Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday to all of us, everyone. Zach Galifianakis is back with a brand-new episode of “Between Two Ferns,” this time interviewing the still-young pop star Justin Bieber. “Your young punk attitude is not going to work in this interview. You understand me, son?” Recognize. Roll …
Mike Lawrence returned to perform stand-up again on Conan last night. Did you know that Star Wars is a completely different movie for you if you’ve watched Spaceballs first? Lawrence knows how that feels. And he shared his “strong nerd opinions” about that, Ben Affleck as Batman, the Hulk Hogan …
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon includes so many buzzworthy segments that take place away from the late-night TV panel desk and chairs, that it’d almost behoove a site to just place a permanent link to the show. But this lip sync challenge from Tuesday night’s show singlehandedly will make you …
Each season, ABC’s Dancing With The Stars reliably has at least one designated comedian among the dancers — of course, there are usually more than that who prove to be jokes as contestants. And in Season 17, which began last week, stand-up comedian Bill Engvall is that dancer. Engvall survived …
Oh, snap. Zach Sherwin, comedian and hip-hop rhymer, returned to Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on Monday night and presented Jay-Z with the rap battle he didn’t see coming. Or, perhaps not so much a war as much as something better, ’twas Sherwin’s suggestions in the form of an …
Talk about hitting two birds with one stone cold photo. Who Say what now? That’s Jim Carrey this morning, posting a promotional shot of himself with newly minted Emmy winner Jeff Daniels as they revive their Dumb and Dumber characters — Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne — for the Farrelly …
Hey, kids! And by kids, I mean comedy fans who are between the ages of 14-23 and have a knack for drawing funny things! Reader’s Digest just launched its first-ever Search for the Next Great Cartoonist. Is that you? If so, put your pen to paper or whatever markers you …
If you tuned in last night to Conan’s special Breaking Bad episode, then perhaps you noticed that TBS offered what the network called a “Sneak Pete” at its upcoming late-night series, The Pete Holmes Show. And what a delightfully odd duck of a preview it was. Roll the clip! Fans …
Tina Fey and Tracey Wigfield did not win the Emmy this year for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, but the 30 Rock finale episode they wrote (“Last Lunch”) that included the “Rural Juror” song did win for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, so that’s got to count for something. …
When you turn on your TV tonight and gather around your computers, tablets and phones for that second-screen social-media experience of laughing along with the Emmys with your “friends,” you’ll find that many of them aren’t offering their live commentary tonight on Twitter. Rather, they’re on another network, as the …
