Who’s Hosting The Oscars In 2025? Here Are 12 Funny Hosts Who Could Fill The Gig
Courtesy of CBS. The Oscars Host search for the 97th Annual Academy Awards is currently underway and soon we’ll find out who’s gonna be receiving the hosting baton from last year’s four-time host: Jimmy Kimmel. On top of the big wins, presenters, performances & tributes that happen at each of the big award shows, what makes […]
Hasan Minhaj Addresses Losing “The Daily Show” Hosting Gig
Courtesy of Comedy Central. Just a little over a year ago, Hasan Minhaj was one of the favored candidates to take over hosting Comedy Central’s The Daily Show following Trevor Noah‘s exit from the show after hosting for seven years. However, when last year’s New Yorker Article came out addressing Minhaj’s joke embellishments in his […]
Hasan Minhaj Returns To Netflix For Third Special, “Off With His Head”
Hasan Minhaj: Off With His Head. Courtesy of Netflix. Hasan Minhaj has announced the title & premiere date for his newest comedy special, Off With His Head, premiering on Netflix October 22nd. This new hour marks his third for the streamer following his previous specials The King’s Jester in 2022 & Homecoming King in 2017. […]
Hasan Minhaj Returns To Talk Show Roots With New YouTube Series, “Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know”
Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know. Courtesy of YouTube. Hasan Minhaj, known for his Peabody award-winning comedy & interview chops from his time on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show & Netflix’s Patriot Act, is back with his newest talk series, Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know. The new series premiered on his YouTube channel this morning and debuted its […]
Special Tapings Radar: The Funniest Comics Taping Comedy Specials This Month (July 2024)
L to R: Matt Mathews, Gabriel Iglesias, Hasan Minhaj, Bert Kreischer, Chris Alan. We’re more than half way through 2024 & it’s been a killer year for comedy specials so far. Among the comics who’ve taped and released specials this year include Ramy Youssef’s More Feelings on HBO & Hannah Einbinder’s Everything Must Go on […]
Exclusive: Hasan Minhaj Brings Friends to Netflix is a Joke Festival & Addresses Being Canceled
Last night, Hasan Minhaj hosted one of the most impressive drop-in shows we’ve ever seen at Netflix is a Joke Festival. That’s a pretty high bar, but Hasan and Friends managed to put on a show worth remembering. It was a revolving door of headliner after headliner. At the end, Minhaj addressed the elephant in the […]
Michelle Buteau & Ilana Glazer Star In The Pregnancy Comedy “Babes”
Last Fall, 800 Pound Gorilla News learned about the film studio Neon Rated landing the distribution rights to the new scripted comedy from Pamela Adlon (who’s behind the Emmy award winning Better Things & King of the Hill) in her directorial debut, Babes. The new film, starring stand-up comedians Michelle Buteau & Ilana Glazer, has […]
Pamela Adlon’s Directorial Debut, ‘Babes,’ To Be Distributed By Neon
Ilana Glazer, Courtesy of Prime Video. Michelle Buteau, Courtesy of Netflix. Hasan Minhaj, Courtesy of Netflix. Pamela Adlon, of Better Things and King Of The Hill fame, will have her Ilana Glazer and Josh Rabinowitz scripted comedy, Babes, distributed state-side by Neon. The film stars Glazer as a woman who gets pregnant after sleeping with […]
The Best of Comedy on Hot Ones: Stand-Up Edition
The newest season of Hot Ones, produced by First We Feast, has premiered this week with its first guests, *NSYNC. Throughout the show’s history of reigning supreme as one of the most viewed, talked about and (quite literally) hottest online talk shows on YouTube, thousands of wings have been dabbed with the funniest people in […]
Comedy On Tour: Hasan Minhaj, Nikki Glaser And More Comics Playing Out New Hours This Fall
Comedy On Tour, presented by 800 Pound Gorilla News, is THE wekly editorial piece to find all the latest and greatest comedy tours you need to know about and get tickets to. This week’s lineup are all class acts; featuring Hasan Minhaj, Nikki Glaser, Gianmarco Soresi, Chad Daniels and Christina P. All are working out […]