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Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield — the Ben & Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream — stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon again last night to talk up fair trade and allow Fallon to “flog his flavor” in his ongoing friendly competition with Stephen Colbert. Roll the clip. …
Could this be the final season of The Simpsons? The animated FOX sitcom, currently in its 23rd season, finds itself in another tough round of salary negotiations with its voice actors, with 20th Century Fox Television asking the cast to take a 45% pay cut to renew their contracts. That’s from …
George Lopez has found a new gig to replace his late-night TV show on TBS, and it sends him cruising? Carnival Cruise Lines announced this week that it had hired Lopez to become the line’s “comedy curator,” and will rebrand its Punchliner Comedy Clubs as Punchliner Comedy Clubs Presented by George …
Remember when Heineken Light took over an empty lot and billboard in NYC to put on a surprise concert with TV on the Radio? Well, they did done gone and did it again. This time in Chicago. Let’s head to Wrigleyville and check out Broken Social Scene. Sometimes a billboard …
Jo Koy was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday night, and he talked at length about his problems with sleep apnea. He also has a Filipino mother. Did he use her accent to get laughs? What do you think? Roll the clip. https://www.hulu.com/watch/285419/the-tonight-show-with-jay-leno-jo-koy
NBC announced today it had ordered full-season commitments for new sitcoms Whitney and Up All Night, leaving the fate of fellow rookie Free Agents up in the air (it airs a new episode Wednesday night, so if you want to support it, then you should watch it!). So what timeslot …
Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time begins its second season later this week on Comedy Central, and to celebrate, the network is sharing three DVDs of Nick Swardson’s stand-up special, “Seriously, Who Farted?” for The Comic’s Comic to give away to three lucky fans. Here’s how we’re going to do it. I’m …
Cut for time? Perhaps. Because this parody of the very real apologies and apology video by Netflix’s Reed Hastings (Jason Sudeikis) and Qwikster’s Andy Rendich (Fred Armisen) is funny and even includes an appearance by a famous spokesman duo from the 1980s (played by Bobby Moynihan and Taran Killam). Thank …
We’re back with another new episode of Saturday Night Live, and host Melissa McCarthy is sure to delight. How do I know this? Because I’m typing this on Monday morning, so I’ve already watched the show. Also, because McCarthy’s scene-stealing performance in Bridesmaids and her Emmy win weren’t flukes. Girl …
The full cast of Arrested Development reunited Sunday for the first time since FOX cancelled the critically beloved sitcom five years ago — and revealed a bombshell development. While everyone expected to hear news about a long-rumored AD movie, they heard creator Mitchell Hurwitz instead say that the movie would …
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