Bonus content from this week’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee includes the great Dave Hill unveiling a new call-to-action song for the 2016 election, “Who’s it Gonna Be? (Trump or Hillary)”.
As luck would have it, the first people to hear this song have, are, and will always “feel the bern”
We thought a Trump vs. Bernie special would look promising and this preview sure does.
Anthony Atamanuik, who plays Trump, dons a Rabbi outfit and character to appeal to James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders’ Jewish side.
Look for the Trump vs. Bernie debate special to premiere Wednesday, April 27th followed by a sketch special on Wednesday, May 11th on Fusion.
Nate Bargatze returned to The Tonight Show, as he’s one of Fallon’s favorites, to perform his latest stand-up set.
Starting off, Bargatze touched on his personal experience with flying, then succinctly explained the thought process behind many dumb people who like Donald Trump/Drumpf.
The second season of The Chris Gethard Show on Fusion is premiering tonight at 10PM.
To kick things off, Gethard and company are getting right into the election cycle in their own way by asking employees of various Trump businesses if they’re voting for him in this election.
The show will also be back to an hour long format and feature live calls like the MNN version of the show in case you weren’t aware.
In any case, you should definitely watch the premiere tonight at 10PM on Fusion.
Late Night with Seth Meyers’ Conner O’Malley does his latest and greatest work by playing a throughly troubled man who just happens to be an overly enthusiastic supporter of presidential candidate Donald Trump.
O’Malley has now done this a number of times, but seemingly few Trump supporters, as you might imagine, seem to be keen to what he’s up to.
This week, they got to go toe-to-toe on @midnight. Next week, they’ll get to tape a special that goes back to their roots of raising their voices, gesturing with their hands wildly, and saying “uuuuge”.
On Tuesday, March 29th at 8PM, the fantastic comedy debate phenomenon Trump vs. Bernie starring Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian will tape a special that will air on Fusion at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
Tickets are $20 and no matter if you’re a tenth-of-the-one-percent-percenter or one of the 99%, you should get them as soon as possible.
In a very special hour long edition of @midnight, Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian donned their wigs and perfect impressions of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders to try, for a night, to win the Internet rather than the presidency.
From the looks of it, you could see pretty much Trump vs. Bernie is one of the best pieces of comedy to come from this year’s maelstrom of an election.
As far as we know, there hasn’t been an official, public response from Donald Trump/Drumpf about John Oliver’s last damning report on the unfortunate presidential hopeful.
That might have something to do with Oliver and his team at Last Week Tonight’s constant reliance on facts/proof/evidence/etc. in the jokes/points that they make. Also, in it’s in line with Trump/Drumpf’s campaign to ignore facts, especially the ones that make him look bad or weak.
When the dust settles from this election and finds its way into the history books, there is no doubt that Oliver’s reports will be cited, sourced, and played over and over again.
During election years, presidential candidates are promised equal air time at a given TV network. If one candidate gets to be on air for a specific amount of time, other candidates can request that same amount of air time on the same network.
In a similar line of thought, Samantha Bee made sure to grill both sides of the aisle in their individual debates on last night’s Full Frontal.
As she has been doing since day one at her show, Samantha goes for the jugular in her jokes with almost no remorse and we can’t get enough.
Watch her latest breakdown of the most recent GOP and Democratic debates and you’ll see what we mean.
Kicking off Fusion’s order of a Trump vs. Bernie special and digital series, they had Antony Atamanuik and James Adomian as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders cover the results of the primaries on Super Tuesday.
Of course, having lost Texas, Trump hated on the Lone Star state and Bernie continue to outline how many individual donations, no matter how slight, he has received.
Watch the entire livestream archived on Facebook here.
This is a fantastic, ‘uge move, in addition to The Chris Gethard Show and No, You Shut Up!, for Fusion’s comedy line-up.
Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian have seemingly dazzled the country, certainly the Internet, with their impressions of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Now, they’re getting an entire cross-platform digital series and a one hour TV special featuring sketches and their current tour on Fusion.
In fact, Trump and Bernie are sharing a hotel room tonight and you’ll be able to get “their” reactions to these Super Tuesday results at 8PM PST on Facebook.
Whatever the results from today’s primaries and however you feel about them, a Trump vs. Bernie series and special should make you feel better.
This past Sunday saw much of comedy rise to the occasion and throttle social injustice when called upon (even if it’s an implicit sort of call-to-action).
Chris Rock met expectations and talked about the diversity problem while hosting The Oscars relentlessly.
Then, just hours after that, John Oliver ripped Donald Trump hard on Last Week Tonight and did so in a such a great, brutal way that only Oliver can on his HBO show. It’s an early, secret Christmas present from John Oliver to the future of America
It could just be preaching to the choir, but it’s damn fine preaching. Please watch it here and share so maybe it reaches beyond the people that are already on board.
P.S. If elected, Trump wants to strengthen libel laws to make it cost dearly for people like Oliver to point out facts about Donald and make jokes about them.
Really, it’s almost inexplicable that Donald Trump keeps winning in the primary election.
Well, that is the case until you watch Andy Haynes present all the other sorts of non-sensical and despicable people that comprise all the segments of Trump’s fanbase.
Watch and understand who wants Trump’s version of making America great again.
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It’s about time Beth Stelling got her own show.
The fantastic Beth Stelling now has her own web series where she can fire off late night monologue style jokes behind her own desk. The desk may not be inside a studio or in front a live audience, but that really doesn’t get in the way of how damn funny Beth is.
Watch first episode here.
The line between reality and parody keeps getting more and more blurred.
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin sat down and chatted with Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders as played by Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian and was so dazzled by their impressions that she wasn’t quite sure how to go about the interview and whether to talk the characters or the players behind them.
Either way, seeing Trump vs. Bernie on CNN is a pretty solid win for us all.
Ever the clever trickster of a comedian, the UK’s Peter Serafinowicz has painstakingly dubbed various Trump interview and speech clips with both cockney and posh British accents, showing that he sounds ridiculous no matter how you spin it.
It could be a hardened cockney accent…
…or one that is quite refined sounding and it still sounds like there’s good grounds to ban Trump from the UK.
While this becomes more and more of a reality, the parody of a Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders as played respectively by Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian presidential debate is well on its way to touring across these great United States.
If all that we’ve posted about the duo going head-to-head with pretty much the best impressions of either candidate that we’ve seen hasn’t gotten you hyped up for the tour, watch this trailer.
Then, peruse the dates below and go get your tickets for the Trump vs. Bernie tour.
JANUARY 30TH LOS ANGELES, CA 11:00 PM
FEBRUARY 2ND MADISON, WI 8:30 PM
FEBRUARY 3RD MINNEAPOLIS, MN 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 4TH CHICAGO, IL 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 5TH BURLINGTON, VT 9:30 PM
FEBRUARY 6TH BURLINGTON, VT 9:30 PM
FEBRUARY 8TH PORTSMOUTH, NH 7:30 PM
FEBRUARY 8TH MANCHESTER, NH 10:00 PM
FEBRUARY 10TH BOSTON, MA 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 12TH NEW YORK, NY 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 15TH PHILADELPHIA, PA 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 18TH WASHINGTON, DC 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 29TH AUSTIN, TX 7:30 PM
It’s probably been awhile since you’ve felt this must frustration during an election year.
So, comedian Dave Ross has made a campaign that expertly taps into that collective frustration as well as accounting for millennials being able to vote:
You can get a sign, shirt, or bumper sticker that gets behind a campaign that isn’t so much backing a candidate as hoping we all avoid Trump.
#TrumpvsBernie
1/30 LA
2/2 Madison
2/3 MPLS
2/4 Chicago
2/5-2/6 Vermont
2/8 New Hampshire
2/10 Boston
2/12 NYC
2/15 Philly
2/17 DC
2/29 ATX
James Adomian and Anthony Atamanuik’s amazing display as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump debating each other in a way that realizes all our political fever dreams is going on tour and their run of dates has just been announced in tweet above.
New Hampshire gets two shows in one night at Portsmouth and Manchester.
Make your plans accordingly. We’ll definitely keep you updated on more dates, etc.
LA Trump vs. Bernie kicks off the tour – more dates soon! https://t.co/MvqSz0Knvu
One of the absolute best comedic takes from the upcoming presidential election is the birth of master impressionists Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian debating each other as presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, respectively.
Officially in the election year, we’re glad to hear that they’re not only going to continue doing their hysterical, pitch perfect debates, but they are going to tour the country with it. Already, they’re kicking it off at Riot LA on Jan. 30th
They’ll also be stopping in Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live on Feb. 15th.
More dates and cities are to be announced and you should not miss your chance to see this before it might happen in real life with the real Trump and Bernie.
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert meet again. This time, rather than as hosts of companion shows fictionally on opposite sides of the political spectrum, they meet as Late Show host and surprise guest.
Stewart is still on the march to get the Zadroga Act, the act that ensures needed medical care for 9/11 first responders, and is calling up big favors left and right. Already he has gone on The Daily Show and, just last night, he not only went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, but he did so with his stunning Donald Trump impression.
There’s no way that Congress isn’t watching this like everyone else is, right?
In real life or in parody, you’re probably not going to get a better bipartisan presidential debate than this one recorded live at UCB Franklin this week. It was put on by the amazing James Adomian and Drew Droege, appropriately called Decision Election 2016 All-Star Clusterf*ck with:
James Adomian as Sen. Bernie Sanders
Drew Droege as Carly Fiorina
Heather Anne Campbell as Sec. Hillary Clinton
Seth Morris as Gov. Lincoln Chafee
Fortune Feimster as Donald Trump
Ian Karmel as Gov. Chris Christie
Ryan Perez as Sen. Ted Cruz
Chris Schleicher as Gov. Martin O’Malley
Daniel Van Kirk as Gov. Jeb Bush
Jerry Minor as Dr. Ben Carson
Mike Still as Gov. Mike Huckabee
Veronica Osorio as Sen. Marco Rubio
Neil Casey as moderator
If you’re feeling conflicted about watching SNL tonight because of Trump, watching this will more than make up for it.
As a great description of Donald Trump’s appearance involves a pumpkin, Josh Androsky took submissions for the best jack-o-lanterns carved into a representation of the Republican presidential candidate.
After picking his favorite, Androsky made sure that the eerie visage was in Trump’s sight by taking it near his very own building and then making sure everyone else on the street saw it as well be clear on Trump’s platform thus far.
If that’s not trolling for greatness, then you’re probably like the one Trump supporter Josh meets.
When it comes to combining raising money and doing so through a well thought-out prank, few are better at combining the two than Stephen Colbert.
So, when Donald Trump mentioned how he once received a small loan of a million dollars, Colbert sprung to action and has issued a pretty ingenious challenge to the Donald.
While this actual debate of Sanders vs. Trump may never happen, it’s certainly pretty great to see two of the best impressions of presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump done by James Adomian and Anthony Atamanuik, respectively.
The two character versions of Sanders and Trump got to debate head-to-head during Whiplash at UCB NY and this highlight reel is pretty much everything you’d hope it be.