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Seven more weeks! Seven more weeks! Comedy Central has extended the inaugural season of The President Show for an additional seven episodes, Comedy Central President Kent Alterman announced today. The late-night satire of President Trump, starring Anthony Atamanuik, airs late-night Thursdays after The Daily Show. “Whether we’re witnessing the end …
I’ve been telling you since Anthony Atamanuik first stepped onto the UCB stage to debate James Admonian as “Trump vs. Bernie” for the first time, that we were watching something special. Sure, you can find plenty of other Trump impersonators, and plenty more since Trump became president. You may laugh …
Will Durst wants me to publish this interview before the world ends. “There’s the possibility it could all end tomorrow,” Durst told me over the phone. “I mean it! Every morning we don’t wake up with a mushroom cloud is a victory.” Well, Durst told me this last week, so…so …
While the FBI and Congress are still trying to figure out what happened in our presidential election of 2016 and who helped the Russians and how much the Russians meddled with us, Samantha Bee already knew. Bee told us all about it months ago, before Election Day. As she reminded …
Finally! Continuing in Comedy Central’s grand tradition of producing groundbreaking late night formats, comes The President Show. Just like a certain chief executive in Washington, The President Show gleefully tosses out the rulebook of its predecessors. Created by Anthony Atamanuik who hosts as Donald J. Trump, and produced by Clone …
Jimmy Kimmel sets up this bit rather nicely. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, whose daughter serves as a propaganda officer for President Trump, keeps writing horribly unfunny jokes on Twitter. Huckabee fashions himself to be a comedian — and I’ve even seen him in a comedy club before, way back …
Not since Tropic Thunder have we seen someone tackle the notion of “Oscar Bait” quite as accurately as Seth Meyers did last night on his NBC talker, Late Night with Seth Meyers. Here he was, in as the credits tell us if you didn’t blink and miss ’em, A Shoemaker …
Since President Donald J. Trump loves his Twitter account so much, and yet continues to act like a spoiled brat on it, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah did the next right thing: They created a browser extension so Trump’s Tweets read like he’s an eight-year-old. Or, in other words: …
Before we ever heard about Trevor Noah in America, Loyiso Gola was the star of his own Emmy-nominated TV satire in South Africa, Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola. He appeared in a PBS documentary in 2014 hosted by The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj called Stand Up Planet, and now …
When Bill Maher takes the stage in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, you won’t have to be in the seats at Largo to see or hear Maher take on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Maher’s set, #WhinyLittleBitch, will livestream exclusively on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/Maher and www.facebook.com/ATTN). “I had this killer …
