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Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will put on its first holiday special, Christmas on I.C.E., for TBS this December. Bee will be joined at New York’s PlayStation Theater by special guests including skating superstar and Olympic medalist Adam Rippon. “I did not see her skate before I agreed to this,” said Rippon. …
James Corden took Wednesday off from work so he could stay at home with his wife and their new baby daughter. Which made it all the more fitting for Corden to ask Tim Minchin to perform Corden’s favorite Christmas song, “White Wine in the Sun.” Roll it.
Absolutely delightful, this is. The only way this special could present more joy would be if Adult Swim had had the good sense to premiere Joe Pera Helps You Find the Perfect Christmas Tree two weeks ago, when more of you actually could put Pera’s advice into practice. Well, better …
A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS on Dec. 9, 1965. Fifty-one years later, Nickelodeon will debut an animated Christmas special that tells the holiday story from the perspective of the tree. Sort of. Albert stars Saturday Night Live’s Bobby Moynihan as Albert, a tiny Douglas fir tree with dreams of …
And Hanukkah, too! Now for something completely different, there’s a Whoopi Goldberg collection of ugly holiday sweaters. Eight of them — seven Christmas and one Hanukkah. Exclusively at Lord and Taylor. There’s a multiracial family of elves. A zip-up with a Black Santa and a White Santa face-off. An octopus …
Thirteen years have passed since Billy Bob Thornton and Tony Cox brought Bad Santa and his little helper into movie theaters near you. Now they’re back in Bad Santa 2, in which they attempt to rip off a Chicago charity. Even “the kid” is back, Brett Kelly all grown up …
Home for the holidays? Bill Burr’s new animated series for Netflix, F is for Family, will put you in just the right mood while also sending you back to the 1970s. From my review: “F is for Family sneaks up on you and into your heart, much like the first …
Self-explanatory. From last night’s “Christmas Spectacular” final episode of 2015 from The Late Late Show with James Corden. Roll the clip!
That Bill Murray Christmas special is happening, and you’ll have to have Netflix to see it come December. Netflix decked the first halls today for A Very Murray Christmas with a promotional teaser clip. It features Murray as himself (or a version thereof) who’s trying to make a TV special in …
Christmas is coming early this year, and it hasn’t even arrived just yet. We learned today, first via Variety, that Bill Murray — who has sung on Saturday Night Live and in various movie and TV appearances over the past few decades (including his newest film, St. Vincent, wherein he …
