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Hot off the presses! Here is the TBS press release announcing it’s signed Samantha Bee to a deal for her own topical satirical comedy series on the cable network — presumably airing either before or after Conan, don’t you think? She’s already executive-producing and writing a newly-announced TBS sitcom starring …
Comedy Central has announced the roster of Roasters lined up to leave it to the Biebs, and it’s a collection of comedians, rappers, athletes, and Martha Stewart? Um, ok. Kevin Hart will preside over the “Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber” (#BieberRoast), taping March 14 in Los Angeles and airing …
The “feud” between Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and the WWE’s Seth Rollins came to a head Monday night on the pro wrestling’s live RAW telecast, as Rollins mocked Stewart with a fake “Daily Show” set, only to have the satirical news anchor show up and kick him right in the …
When Adam Devine burst into our national consciousness — not just through his starring role in Comedy Central’s Workaholics, but also through a national ad campaign and a plum role in the singing feature film Pitch Perfect — I was far from the only person to notice how Devine reminded …
Good news, complicated news today for fans of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. Good news: TBS has ordered 10 episodes of a still-untitled sitcom starring Jason Jones as a father leading his wife and two kids on a family vacation that hits road bump after road bump. Jones co-wrote the …
When Jon Stewart suddenly announced last week that he’d be stepping down from The Daily Show later this year, after almost 17 years hosting the late-night satirical news program on Comedy Central, many viewers and fans wanted more answers. They’d get them Thursday night, when Stewart sat down for an …
Before leaving for a regularly scheduled vacation last weekend, Jon Stewart surprised everyone watching The Daily Show that he’d be taking a more permanent vacation, retiring by the end of his 17th year at the helm of Comedy Central’s preeminent late-night news satire program. Here he was, in his own …
Mark your calendars: Comedy Central has set Kevin Hart as the Roast Master for the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber, which will tape on March 14 in California and premiere on the cable network at 10 p.m. Monday, March 30, 2015. Bieber had asked the network to roast him …
Matt Braunger was 39, single, no kids, renting an apartment when I saw him record this hour-plus set last summer at The Bell House in Brooklyn. “I think I’m fucking killing it, you guys,” Braunger told the audience then, and now as his stand-up special, Big Dumb Animal, debuts tonight …
Comedy Central and Jon Stewart’s Busboy Productions announced today the first all-stars booked for its biennial autism benefit, “Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs,” and they include Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Jon Hamm, John Oliver, Paul Rudd and Amy Schumer. The 2015 edition of “Night of …
