Real comedy still happens on late night, we can prove it. If you like Conan comedy gold, Fallon friendliness, cutesy Corden, kneedy Kimmel, and all the rest, I hope you’ll enjoy this column too. The muddled on-again off-again summer schedule of late night shows continues, and last week Kimmel sat out again. There was still a lot …
The summer is a confusing time for late night shows. With vacation time, shows are often off, then on, seemingly at random. When shows do air, there’s fewer dangerous animals on, and more affect-less athletes. And yet, some really funny things happen on late night during these lesser watched months. Jimmy Fallon nearly lost a hand, …
Real comedy still happens on late night, we can prove it. If you like Conan comedy gold, Fallon friendliness, cutesy Corden, list-making Letterman, kneedy Kimmel, and all the rest, I hope you’ll enjoy this column too. Since Dave retired and the Summer weekly talk-show break eased into Summer talk-show down time, mostly occupied by a few …
Last night on late night, John Oliver talked NSA, FIFA, and contract chicken farming. On Friday, Oprah and Norm MacDonald came on Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel interviewed a UCSB student whose flute recital invite went viral, and Anna Kendrick hates her “resting bitchy face”. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Oliver was surprised to report that the …
Last night on late night, John Oliver took America to task for being the only other country, auspiciously paired with Papua New Guinea, to not have any federal mandated paid family leave for the birth of a child. May 10 was Mother’s Day in the US this year, and Last Week Tonight made the astute move of exposing a pretty horrible injustice.
Real comedy still happens on late night, we can prove it. If you like Conan comedy gold, Fallon friendliness, cutesy Corden, list-making Letterman, kneedy Kimmel, and all the rest, I hope you’ll enjoy this column too. Sunday features only one major nightly talk show, so this post is about Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. John …
UPDATED with video: Say it ain’t so Jon! Say it ain’t so! Comedy Central took to Twitter on Tuesday to reveal the news that Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, would be stepping down. The host revealed this news during the taping of Tuesday’s episode with more details expected to come out when the …
People looking for a satirized view of news and media haven’t had to look far as of late. Between the long running twin titans of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report from Comedy Central, the market has pretty much saturated itself as far as that daily news satire is concerned.