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Michelle Wolf just left Late Night with Seth Meyers for her correspondent job at The Daily Show, which also means she could come back soon enough as a stand-up guest. Speaking of making progress, Hillary Clinton! Wolf has some thoughts about Hillary’s campaign to become the first female president of …
CBS announced a new showrunner today for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, moving Eric Licht from his executive producer gig on the morning shift for CBS This Morning to help steer the late-night ship into more comfortable long-term territory. Before you rush to write your hot-take thinkpieces about how …
Dice is in a bad mood. The world is upside down. Batman vs. Superman? Andrew Dice Clay explains in this stand-up performance on Tuesday’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. His new semi-autobiographical series, Dice, premieres this Sunday on Showtime. Roll the clip!
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has poached a top writer/contributor from Late Night with Seth Meyers, announcing Michelle Wolf has joined TDS as a writer and on-air contributor. The hiring happened last week, but Comedy Central waited until after last week’s Upfronts to make the announcement. Wolf …
Fallon favorite Nate Bargatze made his fourth stand-up comedy appearance on The Tonight Show on Friday night, and he’s no April Fool. Although Bargatze did admit he’s a fan of Trump. But in the way that anyone can be sold on a late-night infomercial kind of way, kind of fan. …
NBCUniversal’s exclusive “Late Night Writers Workshop” happens over a week in April, and the TV conglomerate has released the names of the chosen few who’ll get an intensive look behind the scenes of late-night television. “We are excited and proud to announce the writers chosen for this year’s 2016 NBCUniversal …
Gabriel Iglesias wore a suit for his third stand-up performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. A suit! If you’ve seen Iglesias do stand-up, you’re used to Hawaiian shirts and jorts. Not this time. Fluffy cleans up nice, doesn’t he? He also joked about how fancy the NBC facilities …
Jimmy Carr is the first British comedian to produce an original stand-up comedy special for Netflix, and Carr celebrated the occasion with a five-minute performance Thursday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. So here’s a sampler platter of one-liners from Carr’s new special, Jimmy Carr: Funny Business. Roll …
Steve Martin remains a great showman after all these years, and whether you want to nitpick about whether he has or hasn’t performed stand-up in the past 35 years and what constitutes stand-up exactly, but it’s great to see Martin entertaining the people live. And that’s exactly what he did …
Mary Lynn Rajskub performed stand-up on Friday’s Tonight Show, and she said flying to NYC and getting away for a weekend away from her husband and child made her feel like Miley Cyrus, even if people still recognize her from her role on 24. On that show, she played a …
