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Desus & Mero Bring the Hype in Announcing This Year’s Black List

December 14, 2020

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Every year around this time, The Black List announces the most popular screenplays around Tinseltown that have yet to be produced into actual movies. Normally, it would just be announced on social media and a .PDF would make the rounds with titles, names, and loglines.

Yet, Franklin Leonard, the creator of The Black List, has opted for a much slicker announcement, even slicker than most award shows by tapping Desus Nice & The Kid Mero. Awards shows like The Emmys and The Oscars have a couple celebrities get dressed up way too early in the morning and plainly read nominees. In contrast, Desus & Nice bring the signature riffing off-the-cuff while reading off all the screenplays that made it into the 2020 edition of The Black List.

Leonard himself predicts that Desus & Mero will host The Oscars and we sincerely, deeply hope that he’s right.

Please enjoy the whole Black List announcement with Desus & Mero here.

Read the entirety of this year’s Black List here.

Daniel Sloss Will Release Two Specials on Netflix Later This Year

June 1, 2018

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Scotland’s Daniel Sloss, one of the most featured stand-up comedians on Conan in the 2010s will be having two new hour specials coming out on Netflix.

One is called Dark and the other is called Jigsaw and, together, they should further Sloss quest to make his name known here in the States (and it should be for how funny he is).

Just see for yourself in this cheeky announcement for both specials.

Jon Stewart Officially Announces His Retirement, Sometime This Year, From The Daily Show

February 11, 2015

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It was announced via press release yesterday and word of mouth that Jon Stewart will retire from The Daily Show at some point this year.

Jon made his official announcement and the beginning of a long, sincere goodbye at the end of last night’s Daily Show. He offered some comforting words for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart-faithful that have followed him for the last 17 years including “I’m not going anywhere tomorrow,” and, “This show doesn’t deserve an even slightly restless host and neither do you.”

He also said that he’s unsure of an exact timeline and only giving the months of July, September, or December as potential months when he might leave. Obviously, Comedy Central would want him to stick around as long as possible and get more time to find a replacement, transition them into being a host, and promote them as much as they can as to minimize drop off, if any, in The Daily Show’s viewership.

Even though they don’t compete against The Late Show or The Late Late Show in time slot, it should be noted in regards to figuring out when Stewart might end his rn that David Letterman’s exit comes in May, Colbert comes in September, and James Corden takes over The Late Late Show next month.