The Definitive Guide to Comedy
“I’m Muslim. Like from the news,” jokes Ramy Youssef, who made his network TV debut on Thursday night’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Youssef also joked about how your own individual day can be pretty OK, even if the rest of the world seems to be crumbling around you; how …
Stephen Colbert got the gang back together again, that gang being his former co-workers on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, circa 2005, before Colbert left their ranks. So Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Ed Helms and Rob Corddry joined Stewart and Colbert for a flashback sketch and many good-time panel …
Sarah Tollemache made her network TV debut on Thursday night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and she recounts all the steps it took her to get there. Sort of. Tollemache also has some handy tips for getting out of debt. Roll the clip!
Russell Howard‘s “Round the World” stand-up tour has hit North America, and Howard marked his arrival by performing on Thursday’s episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden. He’s an observational comic, and he found himself here getting wistful remembering his brother’s penchant for public nudity when they were …
Stephen Colbert made his name playing “Stephen Colbert” on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report. Watch him pass the torch to a new Comedy Central satirist as Anthony Atamanuik stopped by The Late Show to show off his great impersonation of Donald Trump. Atamanuik will star in The President Show, a …
Dorothy Hofert Letterman Mengering was 72 when she first began appearing on her son’s late-night television show, and delighted millions in the 1990s with her reports from the Olympics, her pies from the kitchen and her advice for her son. Mengering died Tuesday peacefully at home, a day before David …
The Late Late Show with James Corden just celebrated hitting 10 million subscribers for its YouTube channel, and now the CBS late-night talk show is crossing another barrier. The show will cross the pond for a week of shows this June in Corden’s hometown of London. Specifically, broadcasting three special …
Black men not only have to worry about encountering police officers, but also white women. As comedian Greer Barnes explains in this set from Monday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Here’s a question, though: Did Barnes already have this gig booked? Or did he get the gig …
Usually the March Madness of the NCAA basketball tournament pre-empts CBS late-night programming, but The Late Late Show with James Corden snuck in a brand-new episode on Thursday, and Lil Rel Howery joked about how difficult it is to talk about hoops with his uncle who keeps name-dropping players you’ve …
As season 10 of the CBS hit sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, nears its conclusion (with the cast in final negotiations for another two-year contract extension), the Peacock Network is confident enough in the future (or hedging its bets with a plan B) to order a spin-off prequel, Young Sheldon, …
