This President’s Day, let’s remember how the current POTUS used to host an insane, absurd reality competition show via this tale from Tom Green.
Colbert’s Cartoon Trump to Get Its Own Show on Showtime
As a sitting U.S. President, Trump might just have broken new ground by provoking two major cable TV networks to order series that portray a clearly negative version of him even though he’s the lead character. We’re pretty sure that has never happened to any other U.S. President.
Yet, The President Show on Comedy Central and this newly ordered ‘Cartoon Trump’ spin-off from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s Cartoon Trump segments on Showtime furthers Trump being in a class that’s all his own.
Both Colbert and Late Show’s Chris Licht will be helming the project.
When all is said and done with Trump, we have no doubt that The President Show with Anthony Atamanuik as Trump will be thoroughly referenced and cited in the history books because of wonderful work as shown in this remote segment.
Tightening the face, sharp arm gestures, and Shih Tzus all figure into our favorite impression of Trump as done by the amazing Anthony Atamanuik.
Watch Anthony break it down to Stephen Colbert on The Late Show.
Remember last week when Comedy Central announced a Trump themed show with very little details?
Turns out we were right on the money.
Anthony Atamanuik, the best Trump impressionist out there, will be playing Trump as a weekly late night talk show host starting later this month. Here’s an official announcement video.
The only regret we have here is that this show hasn’t existed since November.
Look for The President Show to premiere on Thursday, April 27th at 11:30PM on Comedy Central.
Now, there are almost no details about this so-called President Show with Donald Trump other than two twitter accounts, @presidentshow and @latenightdonald, and a press release that reads “Late night TV is broken. A TOTAL DISASTER. I alone can fix it!”
However, there being a slot where The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore used to be and Anthony Atamanuik’s fantastic appearances as Trump on @midnight lead us to believe that this would indeed be a mutation of the late night talk show format on Comedy Central with the one and only Donald Trump, as played by Atamanuik, at the helm.
In our opinion, Anthony Atamanuik has the best Trump impression out there. Between a series on Fusion, countless live shows, a nationwide tour, album, and more, Anthony knows how to skewer Trump by exemplifying his characteristics to a capital gold T.
So, if this indeed what we think it is, we’re all in for a wonderful treat that we’re guessing will start a Twitter feud between @realdonaldtrump and @latenightdonald.
Donald Trump Faux Memoir Being Written with Audiobook That Will Feature Alec Baldwin
The title “You Can’t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump" is, as the POTUS would put it, tremendous.
Novelist Kurt Andersen, who also was a co-founder of Spy Magazine, will write the fake memoir for Penguin Press and an accompanying audiobook will feature SNL’s Trump, Alec Baldwin. They’re currently looking towards a November release date.
We’re curious to see if Alec has to put on a power tie that’s way too long, don a bad wig, and contort his face for the entire duration of the audiobook recording just to stay in character.
Few are better at causing puckish mischief with a puppet than Robert Smigel and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. All throughout this last election cycle, he made following the campaign trail a little more tolerable with his Hulu specials.
So, naturally, Triumph went by the Inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States and made this, as expected, amazing remote segment for last night’s Conan.
Conan’s great recurring segment of “leaked calls” between President Obama and Trump got in its last round for this year.
As that’s the case, Team Coco made sure to make the ending for this edition a little extra special.
The weekend of Donald Trump’s inauguration will come with plenty of protests as well as a nationwide comedy festival. Over 20 cities will be having comedy shows as part of the WHAT A JOKE Comedy Fest, raising money for the American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU.
Thanks to the efforts of NYC based comedians Jenn Welch and Emily Winter, the following cities (even one in the UK) will have WHAT A JOKE shows from Thurs., Jan 19th-Sat. Jan 21st:
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Austin
Baltimore
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Des Moines
Knoxville
Los Angeles
Madison
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
New Orleans
New York
Oxford, UK
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Portland, OR
Salt Lake City
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Get more details, line-ups, and tickets here.
Conan O’Brien and his staff walk such a great, fine line with these recurring leaked phone calls between Obama and Trump.
The bit, born after the election out of the fact that Obama and Trump do have real life conversations, are very silly and clever, a cornerstone of Conan, but it still sticks it to Trump.
Plenty of roaring fire is being held to feet of Trump and his cronies by John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers and they’ll continue to do so exquisitely over the next four years.
With that angle covered, Conan takes the approach he has always taken where he aims for the comedy, specifically the silly and absurd, before getting too political or partisan.
These recurring leaked phone calls accomplishes that and also steers clear of normalizing the situation of President Elect Trump as all of these faux conversations are about how irregular all of this is.
Also, take note how spot on the Obama impersonator is.
It’s a little bit of the best of both worlds in late night satirizing Trump.
Fiona Apple Made a Darkly Humorous, Trump-Inspired Version of The Christmas Song
In case you needed another reason to love Fiona Apple, here you go.
While, Fiona Apple isn’t a comedian and doesn’t really engage in musical comedy, she still made what could be the subversive hit of this holiday season.
Her freshly recorded, satirical twist on the holiday classic “The Christmas Song” that floats underneath the impending pall of the Trump Administration is worth a good laugh in these twilight weeks before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20th. Listen to it here.
Here are the lyrics by the way, which are NSFW is you sing them aloud, but we have a feeling that won’t stop you at this point.
Trump’s nuts roasting on an open fire
as he keeps nipping at his foes.
you’ll cry creepy uncle
every time he arrives
for he keeps clawing at your clothes
everybody knows some money and entitlement
can help to make the season white
mothers of color with their kids out of sight
will find it hard to sleep at night.
They know that truuump is on his way.
he’s got black boys in hoodies locked up on his sleigh
and every working man is going to cry
when they learn that Letch don’t care how you live or if you die
Sooo I’m offering this simple phrase
to kids from 1 to 92
although it’s been said many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
Donald Trump, f*ck you
One of the biggest strengths, amongst many, of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is the creativity in which they can descriptively tear someone apart.
To prove that point and to possibly give you a few minutes of ease today, they made a supercut of Sam Bee’s many many takedowns of The Donald. Watch it and enjoy it here.
Oh, you should also know we’ll all be graced with a double dose of Samantha Bee this week will be an episode of Full Frontal tonight and then on Wednesday after the election.
So much crazy stuff has happened this election just in the past month that it seems crazy that the rest of it even happened.
You probably even forgot that Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler starred in a faux documentary where they went along the election campaign trail as two “undecideds” and attempted to see what each campaign was about as well as prank the likes of Jeb Bush, Trump, Clinton, Rubio, Ben Carson, etc. Aasif Mandvi and Jena Friedman from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are pushing them along the whole way in this crazy journey captured in Undecided: The Movie.
Along with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s election coverage, you might feel slightly less on edge leading up to November 8th with this doc. It’s available to stream now on Netflix.
While so much of this election is unbelievable, Adam Conover and the good folks at Adam Ruins Everything are going to show that there is precedence for the craziness of this year, effectively “ruining” whatever you were misconceptions you were having about politics being the way it is now.
The Adam Ruins Everything Election Special premieres tonight at 10PM on TruTV.
Maybe he’ll forget about doing Trump TV as well.
On last night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver offered a proposition to Donald Trump in the form of a bet that promised Trump to get Oliver’s Emmy award should he lose, which is become more and more inevitable everyday. That all stems from the Trump’s mention of how he should have won an Emmy for The Apprentice, and, of course, calling NATAS rigged when he didn’t.
So, at this point, Trump, if he was to take late night hosts up on their offers could drop out and get a fake TV show (maybe) from Seth Meyers and give a concession speech and get an Emmy that isn’t his. As far as runner-up prizes go, that’s way more than he deserves.
So, as Tradition Dictates, Trump and Clinton Have to “Poke Fun” at Each Other at The Al Smith Dinner
If you thought that the line between the presidential debates and the SNL parodies of the debates this year were already more blurred than ever, this will probably reach a whole new level of life and art imitating each other.
During an election year, it’s customary tradition for the candidates to politely roast each other while only being separated by the seat of the Cardinal of New York, Timothy Dolan as part of the big charity event for children in poverty known as The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Center.
It’s a private white tie dinner being held tonight and thus you won’t get to see it on TV. Still, rest assured that you’ll probably hear about it on social media this evening. One can only imagine that Clinton will want to come off cooler than her Pokemon GO joke (and she could do so by doing any of the thousands of jokes leveled at Trump over the last couple of decades) and Trump, having already stooped to childish and grotesque behavior in the debates, will likely espouse his godawful privilege even more with some tasteless one-liners and offensive act outs.
That being said, the team at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee “got a fax from Julian Assange” that shows “Hillary’s speech/set list”.
The Cooties are already great. Reggie Watts is also already great. They all definitely do not need to be made great again.
So, as a group of greats, they made a perfect, satirical Trump supporter song and accompanying music video, Trumpy Trump, that shows why one Donald Trump isn’t actually fit to make anything great at any time.
When the hot mic tape heard ‘round the world dropped last Friday, you had to know that the full fury of Samantha Bee was going to come on her show Full Frontal on Monday night.
Well, Bee didn’t disappoint. Watch, enjoy her wonderfully brutal segment, and take note, once again, of how Bee is the unfiltered voice that late night so desperately needed.
Well, it might be just perfect timing for a new election themed special from Robert Smigel and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog as the almost 64 million people that watched last night’s presidential debate are still trying to stop their head from spinning.
Triumph’s Election Watch 2016 just started streaming on Hulu over the weekend and not only focuses on Trump and Hillary, but Gary “Aleppo Moment” Johnson.
If you have a Hulu account (remember Hulu isn’t free at all anymore), you can watch it here.
Ben Gleib, Alonzo Bodden, and more comics will be the teaspoon of sugar that makes this next presidential debate on Sunday go down.
Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.
As Homer Simpson is a beloved animated character for nearly three decades on television and Donald Trump is a real-life, figurative black hole of idiocy, bigotry, and privilege, we get how this mash-up dub from Peter Serafinowicz is sort of unholy.
Still, if there is anyone that shouldn’t be in charge of nuclear power in the real world, Trump is in the top 10, which is probably subconscious reason of why we still enjoy this parody video plenty.
The findings from this field report might not be shocking to you, but they’re still pretty entertaining, especially when they have a Trump supporter who thought Trump won chats with a Hillary supporter after the debate finishes.
Watch Full Frontal’s delve into watching the debate on both sides of the aisle here.
Ben Gleib, Jackie Kashian, Paul Provenza, and more make fun of the first 2016 presidential debate while it’s happening. The debate will be historic, whether you like that or not, but the show will make it one fun night no matter what Hillary and Trump say.
Comedy Juice Squeezes The Presidential Debate will be happening concurrently with the debate at The Hollywood Improv Comedy Lab on Monday, Sept. 26th 8PM.
Tickets are only $7 and you can (and should) get them here.
This week, @midnight is “sponsored” by Donald Trump or, rather, Anthony Atamanuik’s killer impression of Trump.
You can see that he does not disappoint in a round of Hashtag Wars with Katee Sackhoff, Natasha Lyonne, and Doug Benson.