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Comedy Central has teamed up with the NFL to produce its first-ever official Super Bowl comedy special, and it’ll be an hourlong sketch spectacular from Key & Peele‘s Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Key & Peele Super Bowl Special (#KeyAndPeeleSuperBowlSpecial) will premiere at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Friday, Jan. 30th, …
The Friars Club announced today that it’ll roast Terry Bradshaw for its first sports-themed Friars Club Roast on ESPN2. The Friars Club Roast of Terry Bradshaw will happen Jan. 29, 2015, at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, and air as an hourlong Super Bowl Week special the following night …
Last year’s Super Bowl week Friars Club Roast of Boomer Esiason in New York City never aired on TV, so if you weren’t there, you missed it. ESPN isn’t going to make that mistake again. The cable sports giant has entered into a partnership with The Friars Club to televise …
Jimmy Fallon’s heading back to the Super Bowl. NBC announced today that The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will broadcast live on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, from the Orpheum Theater in Phoenix. The special live Tonight Show will air live following Super Bowl XLIX, a special episode The …
Before Super Bowl XLVIII, Taran Killam and Judah Friedlander waged a public bet over the outcome to launch the new Above Average series, “You Bet Your Ass,” in conjunction with FOX Sports. Killam picked the Seahawks. Picking the Broncos meant a sad day for Friedlander as he had to pay …
Blink and you may have missed it, but Stephen Colbert debuted a series of TV commercial pitches for Wonderful Pistachios during the second quarter of Super Bowl XLVIII. This is what you saw then. Roll it! But there are several more clips already online. So count your blessings as the …
Portland, Ore., is so close to Seattle, and yet Portlandia is so far away from football. So, obviously, the IFC sketch comedy series starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein isn’t tailgating for the Super Bowl. But Prairie Home Companion? Now there’s something these two characters can get behind, and party …
For his 60th birthday party, the King of Morning Radio held court for four hours Friday night in Midtown Manhattan, presiding over an entertainment feast that included the Clown Princes and Princesses of Late-Night TV and many other jesters and entertainers who came to pay tribute to Howard Stern. The …
Seattle Seahawks or Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII: Who’s your team? The NFL’s 48th Super Bowl title game kicks off Sunday afternoon, and Saturday Night Live‘s Taran Killam has made a public wager with 30 Rock‘s Judah Friedlander over the outcome. Killam’s siding with Seattle. Friedlander’s a Denver betting …
Super Bowl commercials are airing earlier and earlier each year. Two weeks before the big football game to decide whether the Denver Broncos or the Seattle Seahawks are the NFL champions of the 2013 season at Super Bowl XLVII, Feb. 2, 2014, in East Rutherford, N.J., we’ve already begun seeing …
