Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Hasan Minhaj and Ronny Chieng join Bruce Springsteen for 13th annual Stand Up For Heroes
by For a 13th year, the New York Comedy Festival will start its week with its biggest and best event: Stand Up For Heroes. The annual …
Tag: John Oliver
Pence parody book has a happy ending
When John Oliver’s announced his staff at HBO’s Last Week Tonight had made a parody of a children’s book about Vice President Mike Pence’s family …
West Virginia judge dismisses coal magnate’s lawsuit against HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
John Oliver has beat back a defamation lawsuit filed against him and his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, by Murray Energy Corporation coal magnate Robert …
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s reunion of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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 …
John Oliver offers mea culpa on Trump, says F— 2016! in explosive finale to season three of HBO’s Last Week Tonight
The third season of HBO’s Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ended not with a whimper, but with a bang. After a penultimate episode …
Episode #115: Andy Zaltzman
Cue the bugle sounds and put your puns where we can see them, because Andy Zaltzman is my guest today. Zaltzman is a critically-acclaimed comedian in …
Brian Regan, Dane Cook, Gabriel Iglesias, Tracy Morgan and more headline fourth annual Oddball Fest for Funny or Die
We may be a month into summer (and two months from Memorial Day already), but it’s never too late for news of a fourth consecutive …
Monologues a microcosm of the metaphor for late-night TV and the politics of today in 2016
Remember how your parents and grandparents warned you growing up about how to protect yourself in the case of a mass shooting? No. They were …
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver explores our massive debt-collection dilemma, then absolves $15 million of it in record TV giveaway
“You get a car! You get a car!! You get a car!!! EVERYBODY GETS A CAR!!!!” I don’t even need to remind you those were …
Most-liked Instagrams for The Comic’s Comic in 2015
You can look back on a calendar year from many different perspectives and points of entry. Your memories flash in front of you. And then …