Aziz Ansari, Comedy Bang! Bang! and “Carmichael Show” cast among the 4th annual Vulture Festival’s comedy lineup
The 4th annual Vulture Festival hits New York City the weekend of May 20-21, and the lineup – featuring events that appeal to culture site Vulture.com’s broad readership – has an amazing slate of comedy shows. They’ll be hosting much, much more than live performances – the calendar includes conversations with Aziz Ansari, Demetri Martin, and the […]
World’s leading Trump impersonator Anthony Atamanuik visits “The Late Show”
Anthony Atamanuik, host of Comedy Central’s forthcoming President Show, stopped by Stephen Colbert’s Late Show desk last night to talk about his wildly acclaimed, unbelievably accurate impression of our fearful leader in chief. In a rare moment out of character onscreen, Atamanuik showed the world why he’s been one of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater’s […]
“The President Show” just may be the next “Colbert Report”
The President Show just may be the next Colbert Report – the two certainly share some comedic DNA. And if last Thursday’s confident debut is any indication, Anthony Atamanuik’s talk-prov blend may show that Comedy Central has finally stumbled on a satirical successor to the genre-breaking juggernaut that helped defined them for almost nine years. The President […]
Donald Trump goes back to school in this Billy Madison-inspired bit from “The President Show”
Continuing his two-week streak of skewering Trump on an epic level, The President Show host Anthony Atamanuik took a page from Billy Madison’s playbook and took his Trump back to school in last night’s hilarious (and hilariously savage) episode. Here, “Trump” and his “Pence” (played by Peter Grosz) go spend some quality time with America’s […]
“The President Show” gets an extension from Comedy Central, will run through the summer
Good news, fake Trump fans: Anthony Atamanuik’s brilliant political satire, The President Show, just got a seven-episode extension from Comedy Central. It’s no surprise the network is ordering more episodes: the series, which debuted just last month, earned one million viewers in its first week on air. And especially now that SNL is on break and we’re without […]
If Alec Baldwin is about to retire his Trump, maybe it’s time “Saturday Night Live” finally hired Anthony Atamanuik?
Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live’s Trump-in-residence, might be hanging up his wig sometime soon. The actor, who’s hosted the sketch show a record-breaking 17 times (including once this season), was very much a surprise pick to play, at the time, presidential hopeful Donald Trump last fall. At the height of a ridiculous election season, it […]
“The President Show” will return to Comedy Central in the form of two specials
Anthony Atamanuik is returning to the Comedy Central airwaves as President Trump, but this time around it’s in the form of two hour-long specials. The first of which will premiere on Tuesday, April 3rd at 11pm and will be called Make America Great-A-Thon: A President Show Special. The entire team for The President Show is […]
Comedians address comedy in the age of Donald Trump for Vice News
It’s the job of a comedian to take a look at the world and provide their spin on it. When Donald Trump was elected into office, many assumed comedians would have plenty of material to work on. Vice News decided to take a look into how comedians are approaching it, so they gathered Anthony Atamanuik, […]
Anthony Atamanuik is bringing “The President Show” to Comedy Central
For the last few months many of us have been wondering just what the hell the world would do with Anthony Atamanuik. His impersonation of Donald Trump rose to prominence as the 2016 election cycle was heating up with his and James Adomian’s show Trump Vs. Bernie. The two got a lot of mileage out […]