This week on TV: This is not Happening is happening
As January ends this week, we turn into a new month of 2019 that also includes season 4 of Comedy Central’s late night storytelling show, This Is Not Happening which returns to late night storytelling shenanigans on February 1st. This season taped a while back with Roy Wood Jr. at the helm as the new […]
Trevor Noah’s new stand-up special, “Son Of Patricia” to hit Netflix this November
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Trevor Noah (@trevornoah) on Oct 22, 2018 at 6:01am PDT Today, The Daily Show host and comedian Trevor Noah announced he’d be releasing his next stand-up comedy special on Netflix and just a few days before the Thanksgiving holiday. Noah made the announcement today that […]
This week on TV: It’s Arrested Development and Kimmy Schmidt starts the end
After a long weekend of remembrance of Memorial Day we’re presented with a relatively shorter work week. While the holiday is the unofficial kickoff of the summer, it doesn’t present any slower time in the TV viewing space as two major shows are premiering this week on Netflix. First up is season 5 of Arrested […]
Tiffany Haddish visited “The Daily Show” to talk about her new book
Tiffany Haddish is having a moment, easily the breakout comedian of 2017. She visited The Daily Show to talk to host Trevor Noah about her new book The Last Black Unicorn which is a collection of stories about her life up until this point. Noah, who was obviously smitten by Haddish had a delightful conversation […]
Nice Lady Michelle Wolf on her new special, her love for NY, and how writing for someone else helped shape her views
If you take a look at the comedians who came out of the 1970s-1990s comedy boom, as it has often been referred to, you will see a common thread. Jerry Seinfeld, Andy Kaufman, Richard Belzer, Elayne Boosler, Chris Rock, Gilbert Gottfried. What do all of these comedians have in common? The East Coast. There was […]
“Drunk History,” “The Daily Show,” and “The President Show” will all host holiday specials
Three of Comedy Central’s biggest properties will have holiday specials this season, and all of them will pay tribute to the holiday in their own way. On November 28th comes The Drunk History Christmas Special which will feature comedians Craig Anstett, Rich Fulcher, and Phil Hendrie who will all get properly hammered and tell us […]
“The Daily Show” recreates “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” as they kick off a week of shows in Chicago
The Daily Show is setting up shop in Chicago all week long with a week of episodes in the Windy City. They’re calling it an “undesked” week, which is a fun way of saying have Trevor do some stand-up comedy and then taking a chair to interview some guests. To kick things off last night […]
This week on TV: Patton Oswalt Annihilates and Trevor Noah sets up residency in Chicago
Patton Oswalt is about to release his new stand-up comedy special, Annihilation on Netflix. It’s his follow-up to his award-winning special, Talking For Clapping and first since both the 2016 election and sudden passing of his wife, true crime author Michelle McNamara. So, needless to say there’s a lot of ground for Oswalt to cover […]
Watch Lewis Black’s rant against the “Douche Document” healthcare bill on “The Daily Show”
Lewis Black’s unfettered rants on The Daily Show are pure comedy elation. His Back In Black segment has now run on TDS over the course of 3 different hosts of the show and as the crotchety old comedian becomes more crotchety he tends to toss more middle fingers and give less f*cks than ever before. […]
Comedy Central to launch its own podcast network
Podcasting isn’t new to anyone who is a fan of comedy, technologically advanced, or those just plain ahead of the curve. But for the rest of the world, it’s still just something that they heard about that one time Obama was on one or when their hip friend told them about this true crime Serial […]