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Matt Koff is a Brooklyn-based stand-up comic and Emmy-winning TV writer who has spent more than 13 years writing for The Daily Show. His own stand-up was featured on Adam Devine’s House Party on Comedy Central, and earned him the title of New York’s Funniest in 2023. In addition to his …
Sophie Zucker was the youngest writer on staff at The Daily Show when she started in 2023, only to find herself and all of her colleagues out of work this summer due to the ongoing Writers Guild strike. Zucker got her comedy start in New York’s Brooklyn scene, forming a …
What do you mean The Friars Club has closed for good, again?! Sad but true news about the once-legendary second home for funny people, plus happier news about Adam Sandler accepting the Mark Twain Prize in an all-star tribute on CNN, finally some guest-hosting dates for the correspondents on The …
Check out the first five weeks of guest hosts for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, kicking off next Tuesday with Leslie Jones, and continuing with Wanda Sykes, D.L. Hughley, Chelsea Handler, and Sarah Silverman. More details on that, plus all of the first 10 days of comedy industry news and …
Three months after Donald Trump left the White House, Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper reflected on his 14 months covering the 2020 Trump campaign in a new half-hour special, in The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse – Into The MAGAverse, From an undisclosed parking lot in …
Jordan Klepper has followed Trump supporters for years now for Comedy Central. But Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, was different. As Klepper reported that day near the Washington Monument: “You can tell these people really love America by the number of weapons they brought to hurt other Americans.” He also Tweeted …
Michael Kosta is a Senior Correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Prior to The Daily Show, Michael co-created, produced and starred in the E! network’s The Comment Section, guest-hosted G4’s Attack of the Show and co-hosted Crowd Goes Wild on FOX Sports with Regis Philbin. He also served as a correspondent on The Soup spinoff series The Soup Investigates. …
Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic hosts a half-hour special in tribute to the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Remembering RBG – A Nation Ugly Cries with Desi Lydic, premiering Friday, Oct. 30 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central. The special finds Lydic …
So much has changed in the world since the last time I caught up with Lewis Black in September of 2016. But last things first, obviously: Black managed to film his last live show before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live stand-up comedy, recording his March 13, 2020, performance at …
Lizz Winstead is a Minnesotan through and through, even though she has spent the better part of the past three decades in New York City. Winstead first moved to New York to pursue her stand-up comedy career, became a segment producer for The Jon Stewart Show in 1995, and while …
