When it comes to comedy, one of Fusion’s favorite things to do is documentary specials hosted by or focused around individual comedians.
Their latest docu-special will come from the marvelous Baron Vaughn embarking on a search for his absentee father. Called Fatherless, you can get a glimpse of the long and winding road that Baron takes in this trailer
Fatherless premieres on Fusion on Sunday, April 2nd at 9PM.
This might be a more fun roast than many of the high profile celebrity roasts over the last few years as Snoop isn’t widely annoyed by a bunch of people and plenty of friends will be roasting him.
Fusion, Russell Simmons’ All Def Digital, and Merry Jane are teaming up to put a roast of the one and only Snoop Dogg cleverly called Snoop Dogg Smokeout.
The special event is set to be televised this Saturday, December 10th at 10PM. Here’s a fun promo that gets actually gets mogul Simmons in on the fun.
Tonight’s a night for specials.
The latest episode of The Half Hour features the half hour stand-up special of Matthew Broussard. That airs at midnight on Comedy Central.
On Fusion, they have an entire block of specials starting with an docu-special about income inequality with Chris Cubas called Chris Gets Money at 5PM PDT. Following that, The Onion Presents Iconic Images of Election 2016 airs at 6PM PDT and Bassem Youssef’s own comedy docu-special Muslim Invasion at 6:30PM PDT.
OK, you’ve got your Friday TV watching cut out for you.
The dry, sarcastic bent of The Onion is making an entire election special that will air on Fusion. From the looks of this preview, it’ll have the look of a normal sort of traditional news deep dive on this election, but with appropriate cursing and satire.
The Onion Presents The Iconic Images of Election 2016 is set to premiere on Friday, October 21st at 9PM on Fusion right after the Chris Cubas-1 percenter docu-special Chris Gets Money and right before a Bassem Youssef special called Muslim Invasion.
Fusion wants to explore the notion of how unbalanced income inequality in the U.S. is. Of course, they, like so many other investigatory and eductional docu-specials and docu-series these days, have gotten a funny person to frame the special around.
For exploring the lives of the 1%, Fusion got Austin’s Chris Cubas and gave him $30,000 to spend over 30 days (i.e. live like and “infiltrate” that 1%).
His findings were all shot and edited into a special that’s called Chris Gets Money that will premiere on Fusion on Friday, October 21st at 8PM.
The likelihood that this will instantly solve income inequality in this country is unlikely, but watching Cubas ball out of control will probably be pretty fun.
It’s just another video from James Adomian that shows that maybe the Bernie Sanders campaign would have done even better to integrate him into it.
As Bernie Sanders has effectively dropped out of the presidential race, Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian, the duo behind Trump vs Bernie, have to put their brilliant political comedy minds to use in another direction right now.
That direction now happens to be a parody of Chris Matthews, played by Adomian, interviewing a panel of Senator John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Reince Priebus, respectively played by Atamanuik, Ithamar Enriquez, and John Mihiser.
Together, they try to turn a blind eye while the Republican National Convention welcomes Donald Trump as their presidential nominee.
Today, Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton in a move to unite Democrats in defeating Trump.
With that in mind, James Adomian, who has played Bernie in Trump vs. Bernie for awhile now, made this farewell message that the real Sanders should consider playing at his next public appearance.
It’s pretty simple. Lots of great, important stuff happened last week in comedy. Like the title says, here are 10 (or so) of those things.
–Chris Gethard wanting to be Kelly Ripa’s sidekick
–John Oliver topping Oprah with nearly $15 million debt forgiveness giveaway
–Trailer for Bassem Youssef’s Democracy Handbook
–Second trailer for HBO’s Vice Principals
–This stand-up set from Brodie Reed
–Danny Jelinek and Chris Sartinsky’s “Mulchtown”
–The Lucas Brothers returning to The Tonight Show
–Comedy Central putting every Key & Peele sketch online
–Angie Tribeca is back for season 2 at TBS, Casual is back for season 2 at Hulu, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser returns to Comedy Central, Ladylike premieres at MTV
–Comedy Central’s next roast will be of Rob Lowe
–Amber Tozer’s memoir Sober Stick Figure
As No, You Shut Up! is no more, Fusion is going to fill its slot for its current events/politically charged comedy with a brand new show from “Egypt’s Jon Stewart”, Bassem Youssef.
Called Democracy Handbook, Youssef will learn about what America has done with the ‘grand experiment’ of democracy by going out and talking to people at on the street, Trump rallies, gun shows, and more.
Get a taste of it with this trailer here, then look for the premiere in July.
Presented without further comment, please enjoy what should be the basis for more interviews on TV going forward here.
Trump vs Bernie’s second comedy special on Fusion, Trump vs. Bernie: Shout The Vote! featuring James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders and Anthony Atamanuik’s Donald Trump in a bunch of great sketches is now available for your viewing pleasure, especially since it’s on Fusion’s YouTube page.
You can actually watch both the debate special and the sketch special all without trying to find what channel Fusion is again.
Tonight, you can see the second part of Fusion’s Trump vs. Bernie specials, which will feature things like James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders trying to figure out a retirement plan.
Tune in to Trump vs. Bernie: Shout the Vote at 9PM on Fusion.
Anthony Atamanuik really went to Trump Tower in his full Donald Trump regalia and million dollar impression of Trump to see what would happen. The staff of Trump Tower have obviously been instructed on how to handle matters such as this.
Watch what went down here, then watch Trump vs. Bernie: Shout The Vote, the sketch special, on Wednesday at 9PM on Fusion.
Trump vs. Bernie has their second special coming up next week on Wednesday, May 11th at 9PM on Fusion.
Rather than a debate, it’ll be a plethora of fun, subversive sketches, one of which will be posing Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump as the hacktivist group Anonymous.
If that we’re true, the name “Anonymous” would be ironic, right?
We’re not sure exactly why Fusion is pulling the plug on this show, but we’re sad to see No, You Shut Up! with Paul F. Tompkins get the ax.
According to this blog post, NYSU host Paul F. Tompkins got the call that Fusion has just officially cancelled the show.
For our money, No, You Shut Up! was a jewel in their programming line-up and we have a hard time imagining what sort of show would fill in this slot.
For now, you can watch a giant archive and enjoy the 3 & ¼ seasons on YouTube.
(via Deadline)
We’re intrigued to see how much satire or snark versus genuine coverage gets put on this show.
Since Univision owns Fusion outright now and also now has controlling stake in The Onion, it would only seem natural for the two properties to collaborate given their focus on a specific niche of millennials. The idea that No, You Shut Up with Paul F. Tompkins and an A.V. Club weekly series being on the same network makes sense.
So, that is what is going to happen.
The Onion’s almost non-satirical pop-culture off-shoot, The A.V. Club, is getting its own weekly show developed for Fusion, which will take on pop culture, music, etc. with that clever edge that they’ve honed for years.
We’ll find out if they’ll be able to translate their Internet credibility to Fusion soon.
Forget about all the town halls and sound bytes.
The debate between somewhat fictionalized versions of presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders as played by Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian are what you have been waiting to see.
The world will finally get to see what many of us already have enjoyed with the premiere of the Trump vs. Bernie: Debate for America special starting tonight at 9PM EST/6PM PST on Fusion.
Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian’s Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have a sketch special coming next month, but they also have a “Trump vs Bernie: Debate for America” special coming tomorrow to Fusion at 9PM.
Here’s the promo to get you ready for the only presidential debate that you want to see (and won’t have to worry about its overreaching effects on the country in the years to come).
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.
Chris Gethard Show writer Jo Firestone has had a number of pitches for bits/games/etc. that have been rejected by Chris Gethard. However, Gethard allowed for Jo to pitch those already rejected pitches to the interns and also allowed the interns to vote on an idea that would actually end up on the show.
Basically, Jo Firestone pitching things could be its own show.
Long time fans of The Chris Gethard Show know that Chris has always had an open door policy for rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs to come on the show.
This week, Combs made a surprise appearance for the first time on the cable TV version of TCGS after Gethard lost out on his initial guest.
From the looks of it, the show was all the better for it as things like Zach Galifianakis calling in and challenging Diddy happened.
Check out this latest episode on Fusion at 7PM PST or at thechrisgethardshow.com.
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.
Tickets are already sold out for the Trump vs. Bernie taping.
If you’re not going to the taping, be sure to tune into the “Trump vs Bernie: The Debate Special” premiere on Wednesday, April 27th at 9PM on Fusion.
Perhaps, by the end of next month, their real life counterparts will be getting closer to making this a real thing?
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.