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Hot on the heels of his latest “Let’s Make a Poop” game show special featuring Rob Schneider, “Weird” Al Yankovic, and more, Triumph the...
“What a day this was,” Jimmy Kimmel said at the top of his late-night monologue on Wednesday before recounting the “tumultuous morning” he had...
Demetri Martin just put out his first new stand-up hour in six years. But when he sits down for this interview with The Last Laugh podcast, he’s...
Alex Edelman was having a hectic week before an unexpected earthquake briefly knocked out the internet in his New York apartment just before our...
During an “exit interview” on Sunday Today with Willie Geist ahead of Sunday night’s series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm , Larry David shared...
It’s been six years since W. Kamau Bell’s last special, Private School Negro, premiered on Netflix. And after hosting CNN’s United Shades of...
In his promos ahead of this weekend’s Saturday Night Live hosting gig, comedian Ramy Youssef joked that he’s not even the first...
It’s been more than a decade since Tig Notaro broke through in a big way by walking onto the stand-up stage in Los Angeles and telling her audience,...
Rebel Wilson went rogue on Sunday night and posted the name of the alleged Hollywood “asshole” she had said she planned to expose in her upcoming...
There has always been an indelible quality to Steve Martin’s comedy that is almost impossible to articulate. But in a new two-part documentary...
When Kyle Kinane’s clean-shaven face pops up on Zoom, it’s genuinely disorienting to see him without the signature beard that has become his...
John Oliver got one quick joke off at Kate Middleton’s express during the opening moments of HBO’s Last Week Tonight on Sunday. At the top of his...
Despite never really doing comedy before Girls5eva , Renée Elise Goldsberry has managed to steal nearly every scene she’s been in over the two...
Jimmy Kimmel has never seemed uncomfortable hosting the Oscars, but he appeared more at ease than ever Sunday night during his fourth outing as master...
Comedian Bassem Youssef has been widely known as “the Egyptian Jon Stewart” ever since he gave up being a heart surgeon and made himself into the...
Before Donnell Rawlings was a professional comedian, he was an amateur heckler. He would go to comedy clubs and yell back at the stage, sometimes...
In the past, comedian Rory Scovel never really knew what he was going to say when he walked onto the stand-up stage. But that all changed when he...
Jenny Slate has never been a traditional stand-up comic. And after a lengthy hiatus that followed her 2019 Netflix special Stage Fright—one that...
Laurie Kilmartin knew that naming her new stand-up special Cis Woke Grief Slut might be a little provocative. “I’m open to hate watches!” the...
The fate of The Daily Show was never more uncertain than in the weeks leading up to Comedy Central’s Hail Mary decision to bring back Jon Stewart...
Last fall, when Jon Stewart’s relationship with Apple TV came to an abrupt end, The New York Times reported that it was the tech company’s...
For months, Paul Giamatti has repeatedly refused to explain how he managed to give his character Paul Hunham in The Holdovers an incredibly...
Before Moshe Kasher became a stand-up comedian, his life was defined by his intimate connections to Alcoholics Anonymous, the deaf community, rave...
It’s not often that Donald Trump receives push back from one of his sycophantic interviewers on conservative media. But it happened at least twice...
Comedian Shane Gillis was fired as featured player on Saturday Night Live before he ever got to be in a single sketch. Now, he’s set to be the...
During a game show sketch called “Why’d You Say It?” first time Saturday Night Live host Ayo Edebiri took a brief moment to acknowledge a...
Jacqueline Novak spent six long years developing her “90 minute meditation on the blow job.” Now that “Get on Your Knees” is streaming on...
When Zach Woods was first cast as Gabe on Season 6 of The Office , he found a comment online where someone described his face as a “combination of...
Each episode of In the Know, a new stop-motion animated series that premieres on Peacock this Thursday, Jan. 25, features a handful of cameos by...
Norm Macdonald is widely considered to be the greatest “Weekend Update” anchor of all time. But according to former Saturday Night Live writer...
For the first time since his son Dex’s overdose death last November at just 32 years old, Dana Carvey returned to the podcast mic on Wednesday for a...
Paul F. Tompkins is widely considered to be among the best comedy podcast guests of all time. But he doesn’t let that pressure get to him because,...
Less than a year after her widely mocked opening rap at the BAFTAs, Oscar-winning actress Ariana DeBose found herself to be the butt of a joke at...
Many questions are raised in the trailer for the upcoming 12th and final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm , which premieres on HBO Sunday, Feb. 4, at...
Is Joe Pera for real? That’s the inevitable question you start asking yourself after seeing him perform soft-spoken stand-up jokes, listening to his...
The first time Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. worked together was for a 2015 Daily Show field piece that asked the question, “Are all cops...
Jimmy Kimmel is still on holiday break from his eponymous late-night show this week—but that didn’t stop him from taking a moment to respond to a...
Donald Trump kept the Christmas spirit going strong on Wednesday when he used his Truth Social account to go after the director of Home Alone and Home...
Comedian John Cleese appeared to realize what he had done when he tweeted late in the day on Tuesday a list of five ways that “Hitler was preferable...
Joe Rogan has done it again. But this time, even his own producers couldn’t help but correct him during a live podcast taping. In a clip from...
It’s been more than three decades since Wanda Sykes first stepped onto the stand-up stage—and sometimes it feels like she’s just now getting her...
It instantly became the most hotly anticipated—and dreaded?—political stunt of the year when comedian Ziwe Fumudoh asked disgraced former GOP...
Judd Apatow is known for making long movies, from comedies like Funny People and This Is 40 that balloon past two hours, to documentaries on his...
Well, it’s finally official. After 12 seasons spread over 24 years, Curb Your Enthusiasm will come to an end next year. HBO announced on...
Before Leo Reich takes the stage at the top of his new HBO special Literally, Who Cares?! we hear him introduce himself as the “youngest comedian...
Michael Che drew audible groans Saturday night when he delivered a particularly devastating joke about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s admission that he...
Ten years ago, Cord Jefferson was blogging for Gawker. Now, his directorial debut, American Fiction , is almost guaranteed a Best Picture nomination...
Last month, comedian Bill Burr’s wife Nia Renée Hill was caught on camera flashing double middle fingers at Donald Trump during a pay-per-view UFC...
Emma Stone became the youngest member of the Five-Timers Club on Saturday Night Live this weekend when she hosted the show for the fifth time in 13...