Jon Stewart follows John Oliver, Bill Simmons to HBO with new exclusive four-year production deal
by For his next act, Jon Stewart’s new boss will be the same as John Oliver’s (and Bill Simmons’s, too!): HBO. The pay-cable network announced an …
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Late-night TV’s male hosts of 2015 impersonate one another
For the Vanity Fair spread of fall 2015 that examines how men continue to dominate the late-night TV landscape, nine of them made fun of …
Jon Stewart: The Godfather of Late-Night TV in 2015
Jon Stewart’s talking head might not appear on our TVs four nights a week any longer, but his name and his influence is perhaps even …
Inside Amy Schumer, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver among 74th annual Peabody Awards winners
Congratulations to Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, as they joined seven other TV series honored this morning …
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John Oliver finds Edward Snowden and a way for anyone to care about NSA’s domestic surveillance
With all of the talk in the past week about satire, freedom of speech and comedians abusing or somehow not doing what they can with …
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America Meet World: Satire already has gone global
While a packed SXSW convention center ballroom listened last month to Jimmy Kimmel walk down the memory lane of his life and TV career, a …
15 reasons to watch 2015’s Night of Too Many Stars on Comedy Central
Comedy Central’s biennial special event all-star fundraiser, Night of Too Many Stars, returns on Sunday night with plenty of pre-taped stunts and a live telethon …
Jon Stewart is leaving The Daily Show, so what happens next?
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, …
Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Jon Hamm, John Oliver, Paul Rudd and Amy Schumer join Jon Stewart for 2015’s Night of Too Many Stars on Comedy Central
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 …
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver proves it belongs with all-star first-season finale salmon cannon salute
TV networks may still use Nielsen ratings as their primary measuring stick for how successful their programs in gaining viewers and selling advertisements. But Last …