Strangers with Candy – The Comic's Comic

Comedy Central programming chief Kent Alterman reflects on his career path, that of Comedy Central comedians

April 24, 2014

In case you missed it on the original audio podcast earlier this month, you now can watch Kent Alterman, Comedy Central’s president of original programming, speak for 73 minutes with Andy Greenwald of Grantland about Alterman’s career arc. Alterman met Amy Poehler and the founding four of the Upright Citizens Brigade …

Stephen Colbert tells David Letterman he missed chances at interning and writing for him, before replacing him as Late Show host in 2015

April 23, 2014

Decades before he was the “Stephen Colbert” that you’ve come to know and love on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert had the opportunity to intern for David Letterman on his Late Night staff at NBC in 1986. Colbert turned it down. Eleven years later, in 1997, Colbert and …