Meet Me In New York: Jena Friedman
by What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling …
Tag: The Daily Show
The finale of “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore” with special guest Jon Stewart
After all of the joking by Larry Wilmore’s Nightly Show writers and contributors about how they didn’t expect to still be working on their final …
Return of “Stephen Colbert” kicks off seismic shift in late-night TV coverage for 2016 Republican National Convention
Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Emmy Awards announced nominees last week for the first time in some 16 years not naming Jon Stewart …
Jessica Williams leaving The Daily Show to pursue own Comedy Central half-hour series
Jessica Williams announced today she’s leaving The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, with her final appearance airing this Thursday. This is bad news for TDS, …
Lewis Black’s limited 2016 Broadway engagement of “Black to the Future”
Lewis Black will be back on Broadway in the fall of 2016, but for four performances only of his one-man show, “Black to the Future.” …
Book Excerpt: “Meet The Regulars” with Sasheer Zamata and Michelle Wolf, by Joshua D. Fischer
Joshua D. Fischer began interviewing famous fun and funny folks for the blog, Bedford + Bowery. After talking to a couple dozen such people, Fischer decided …
Hasan Minhaj’s address at the 2016 RTCA Dinner
While U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) held the Congressional floor for a filibuster lasting some 15 hours yesterday into the night to force his colleagues …
Episode #92: Dan McCoy (live from NYCPodFest 2016)
You may know Dan McCoy as an Emmy-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central and now still writing for The …
Michelle Wolf joins The Daily Show as writer/contributor
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 …
Episode #56: Roy Wood, Jr.
When Roy Wood Jr. started interning in morning radio and working in his native Birmingham, Ala., he initially thought he might be the next Ricky …