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With the 2016 election careening toward Judgment Day, Lewis Black is back on Broadway this fall, giving voice to the grand majority of Americans and citizens worldwide perplexed at our politics and our political discussion. Black is performing “Black to the Future” Monday nights on Broadway, and heading out on …
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 them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
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 day with Comedy Central, Wilmore welcomed an interruption from Jon Stewart. It was Stewart’s idea for Wilmore to break off from The Daily Show to …
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 or Stephen Colbert. On Monday night, both returned to late-night TV in glorious measure. Stephen Colbert teased Stewart’s appearance on The Late Show, but it …
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, but great news for Comedy Central — which has watched past star correspondents for The Daily Show such as John Oliver and Samantha Bee depart …
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.” Black’s performances will run on four Mondays in September and October at the Marquis Theatre (nights when the Tony-nominated Gloria Estefan musical, “On Your Feet!” …
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 to expand his project into a book. “Meet The Regulars” finds Fischer meeting people at their favorite spots in Brooklyn — 41 interviews, 123 photos, …
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 to vote on reasonable gun-control legislation, the radio and TV correspondents who cover Congress were holding their annual dinner. Funny, right? Funnier still, many more …
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 Daily Show with Trevor Noah, but you probably hear him more often as the producer and co-host of The Flop House podcast talking about bad …
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 as a writer and on-air contributor. The hiring happened last week, but Comedy Central waited until after last week’s Upfronts to make the announcement. Wolf …
