Reggie Watts and his Late Late Show band Karen return for their first show of 2017 tomorrow at The Satellite. Per usual, it’ll be an amazing night of unbelievable music and Reggie riffing, vamping, etc.
Get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
SNL, James Corden, TJ Miller, and Meryl Streep All Win Big at This Year’s Critics Choice Awards
FILM
BEST COMEDY
Central Intelligence
Deadpool *WINNER*
Don’t Think Twice
The Edge of Seventeen
Hail, Caesar!
The Nice Guys
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Ryan Gosling – The Nice Guys
Hugh Grant – Florence Foster Jenkins
Dwayne Johnson – Central Intelligence
Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic
Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool *WINNER*
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Kate Beckinsale – Love & Friendship
Sally Field – Hello, My Name Is Doris
Kate McKinnon – Ghostbusters
Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen
Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins *WINNER*
TV
BEST COMEDY SERIES
Atlanta
Black-ish
Fleabag
Modern Family
Silicon Valley *WINNER*
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Veep
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live *WINNER*
Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag
Constance Wu, Fresh Off the Boat
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Anthony Anderson, black-ish
Will Forte, The Last Man on Earth
Donald Glover, Atlanta *WINNER*
Bill Hader, Documentary Now!
Patrick Stewart, Blunt Talk
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Anna Chlumsky, Veep
Allison Janney, Mom
Jane Krakowski, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt *WINNER*
Judith Light, Transparent
Allison Williams, Girls
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Louie Anderson, Baskets *WINNER*
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Tony Hale, Veep
T.J. Miller, Silicon Valley
BEST GUEST PERFORMER IN A COMEDY SERIES
Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live *WINNER*
Christine Baranski, The Big Bang Theory
Larry David, Saturday Night Live
Lisa Kudrow, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Liam Neeson, Inside Amy Schumer
BEST ANIMATED SERIES
Archer
Bob’s Burgers
BoJack Horseman *WINNER*
Son of Zorn
South Park
The Simpsons
BEST TALK SHOW
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
The Late Late Show with James Corden *WINNER*
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Host TJ Miller both co-starred Deadpool and is part of the ensemble cast of Silicon Valley, which both took home Critics Choice Awards last night. This might make TJ the biggest winner of the evening.
The Late Late Show with James Corden also continues its ascent in late night by winning over all the satirical news shows and Fallon, which is pretty astounding considering that Fallon is still a ratings leader and Sam Bee, John Oliver, and Trevor Noah got special focus because of the election.
The election also put special focus on SNL with highlighting both Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin in their respective impressions of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and resulted in their Critics Choice wins.
Meryl Streep continues her dominance with awards in general as she indeed play a historically bad singer perfectly in Florence Foster Jenkins.
Don’t forget that FX has a nice showing here as well with wins for Louie Anderson on Baskets and Donald Glover on Atlanta. It’s further proof that FX’s programming line-up can stand with the premium cable and streaming networks.
Also, we’re glad to see BoJack Horseman taking home Best Animated Series as the show continues to evolve and get more emotionally and satisfyingly complex.
See the full list of this year’s Critics Choice Awards winners here.
If you’re one of readers/followers, you are probably well aware of and love Eliza Skinner.
As such, you should enjoy her killing it during her set on last night’s Late Late Show with James Corden. If Eliza Skinner is somehow a new name to you here, relish in discovering her comedy with the aforementioned great performance.
Watch her set here.
When it comes to what late night hosts think of each other, there is, currently, a very thick cloud of mystery. Publicly, most will say that they have camaraderie with each other like any other profession even though ratings technically pit them against each other on a nightly basis.
Will we ever know what they really think of each other like we kind of did between Jay Leno and David Letterman?
Well, The Late Late Show’s Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts is a somewhat heightened version of truth or dare backed with food that’s normally reserved for Andrew Zimmern. Jimmy Kimmel was a guest and got to play the game with James Corden, which really shows how much both are dedicated to keeping up appearances.
This past weekend, The Creative Arts portion (the awards not deemed fit for the Emmys telecast) of The Primetime Emmys were given out.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend continues racking up awards and Last Week Tonight deservingly gets an award for writing. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey also took home statues, which should almost never come as surprise. Also, Childrens Hospital gets a wonderful send-off in its final season by winning awards in Short Form Comedy or Drama and Actor in Short Form Comedy or Drama.
Here’s the whole list of comedy winners:
Casting – Comedy: “Veep” (HBO)
Comedy Guest Actress: Amy Poehler & Tina Fey, “Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
Production Design – Half-Hour: “Transparent” (Amazon)
Stunt Coordination – Comedy/Variety: “Shameless” (Showtime)
Comedy Guest Actor: Peter Scolari, “Girls” (HBO)
Picture Editing – Comedy (Single-Camera): “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” (The CW)
Picture Editing – Comedy (Multi-Camera): “The Big Bang Theory” (CBS)
Sound Mixing – Half-Hour: “Mozart in the Jungle” (Amazon)
Interactive Program: “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS)
Children’s Program: “It’s Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown!” (ABC)
Writing – Variety Series: “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” (HBO)
Directing – Variety Series: Ryan McFaul, “Inside Amy Schumer” (Comedy Central)
Variety Special: “The Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Prime Time Special” (CBS)
Character Voice-Over Performance: Seth MacFarlane, “Family Guy” (Fox)
Short Form Animated Program: “Robot Chicken” (Adult Swim)
Animated Program: “Archer” (FX)
Picture Editing – Variety Programming: “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” (HBO)
Short Form Comedy or Drama Series: “Childrens Hospital” (Adult Swim)
Short Form Variety Series: “Park Bench With Steve Buscemi” (AOL)
Actor – Short Form Comedy or Drama: Rob Corddry, “Childrens Hospital” (Adult Swim)
Production Design – Variety, Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Series: “Portlandia” (IFC)
Hairstyling – Multi-Camera Series or Special: “Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
Makeup – Multi-Camera Series or Special: “Key & Peele” (Comedy Central)
Actress – Short Form Comedy or Drama Series: Patrika Darbo, “Acting Dead” (ActingDead.com)
Choreography: Quest Crew, “America’s Best Dance Crew” (MTV),Kathryn Burns, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW) (tie)
You can read the whole list of Creative Arts Emmys here and the rest of The Primetime Emmys will be presented this weekend.
When it comes to doing a set on late night, one of the best comedians to execute air tight, well-crafted sets is Tommy Johnagin.
His latest late night set on The Late Late Show shows just why that is.
P.S.-Take note of how Tommy pulls off the perfect Grumpy Cat face in the thumbnail still for the video.
The passing of Gene Wilder yesterday brought to the forefront how magical of a person he really was, both on and off camera.
James Corden shares a story where even in being turned down by Wilder, he’s still filled with wonder.
If you’re not watching the entire episode of The Late Late Show, you might not be familiar with one of the more absurdist recurring segments that definitely deserves more shine.
On repeated occasions, bandleader Reggie Watts will interrupt a segment and cause all sorts of beautiful chaos.
This latest one with an escape artist is a great example of how weird James Corden will let The Late Late Show get.
You might be aware that The Late Late Show with James Corden was just nominated for an Emmy. One of the reasons that happen, we firmly believe, is the stellar writing staff they have.
The fantastic Jared Logan is a part of said staff and he got to show off his stand-up chops on the show last night. Watch his set here.
The Late Late Show with James Corden is kind of in a boom right now with Carpool Karaoke. To keep up the pace they’re at, they’ve got to try out new things.
It just so happens that maybe comedian/writer Nate Fernald might not be a good choice to give a test run for a 360/VR immersive audience experience. Or… maybe Nate’s the best choice?
This Saturday at 11PM on Comedy Central, the brand new hour special Amy Schumer Presents Rachel Feinstein: Only Whores Wear Purple premieres.
Feinstein gave a nice preview of this new hour with a set on last night’s Late Late Show.
Expect to hear how awkward foreplay can get and what a “hoot” Rachel’s mom tries to be.
Cameron Esposito is a shining beacon both as a comedian and a person. She has so much going on between developing her own show and having a special come out on Seeso that it makes us 2016 might be one banner year in many banner years that Cameron has coming.
So, it comes as no surprise to us that she nailed her Late Late Show set sporting a great white leather biker jacket and talking about her dear, wonderful wife.
This is one of the best running gags that The Late Late Show has going right now.
May Reggie live long and keep interrupting James whenever he can.
This is the sort of fun that will separate The Late Late Show from the rest of the pack in late night.
We’re pretty sure the world is in for a treat when Jermaine Fowler’s Showtime special Give’em Hell Kid premieres on Friday.
Why do we say that?
Well, just watch his set from last night’s Late Late Show with James Corden.
If you think Thanksgiving doesn’t get enough songs honoring it, just think about what World Toilet Day must feel like.
Fortunately, Reggie Watts and his band Karen have got World Toilet Day and whatever else is on James Corden’s holiday wheel covered.
Last night, James Corden came on as a guest to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and, with his suit color coordinated with Stephen Colbert’s, they belted out an appropriate tune, “Me & My Shadow,” together with Jon Batiste and Stay Human backing them.
It looks like CBS’ late night line-up has quite the pipes, not to mention just enough retooling of the traditional late night format to keep late night talk shows going for several more years.
We’re not sure whether it’s the fates or it was intentional, but it was great to see the likes of living comedy legend Mel Brooks, rising star Jerrod Carmichael, and delightful upstart James Corden on The Late Late Show all together, spanning several decades of comedy.
Even more wonderful than that is the fact they bonded over doing a time-honored bit.
Many of you are set for a day of football that you hope won’t be too distracted by The Emmys.
However, that doesn’t mean that you should shun a meeting of non-sports TV and televised sports like this remote segment of Late Late Show host and recent UK transplant James Corden giving American football a try and even going so far as to make a field goal attempt at a real Raiders game.
Watch his journey and if he succeeds here.
It’s been far too long (over a year at this point) since we’ve seen the delightful Ian Karmel do stand-up on late night.
Luckily, that wait ended when Karmel got to perform on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night and gave us our Karmel fix (pun intended).
Enjoy his set right here right now.
This week, Craig Ferguson sat down with Seth Meyers to promote his latest comedy special Just Being Honest and made his first late night appearance since he stepped down from The Late Late Show.
While being on the other side of the desk, Ferguson chatted with Meyers about missing out on Trump, but not missing the job of a late night host as a whole.
They did a post mortem for the interview and gave more insight to the subtleties of hosting a talk show in late night including their preferences on the cards they throughout the show.
From watching this, we wondered if Ferguson would do another talk show if it was weekly and he could interview whomever he wanted,
As James Corden is a Tony winner and hosts The Late Late Show, his longtime dream of being in a production of Phantom of the Opera seemed just within reach.
This week, he actually did achieve his dream, though with a “bit” of an exception.
Watch how Corden lives out his fantasy, kind of, on this great remote segment here.
James Corden has been hosting The Late Late Show for almost three months now and has waited to have his first stand-up comedian perform on the show, presumably to make it more special.
Well, Nick Thune made doubly sure, as the show’s first comedian to perform stand-up, that it would be unforgettably special.
So, without further adieu, watch Thune’s “award winning” first set here.
On last night’s Late Late Show with James Corden, bandleader Reggie Watts switched hats to be a psychic for random audience members.
With a full band and singing his predictions, you’d probably not care that your psychic reading included a bunch of generalizations and guessing. Hopefully, your next psychic reading will be so musical and enthralling.
You didn’t read that wrong. Two people nuzzle something while blindfolded to see who can guess what it is first.
Not only were the things that Corden, Offerman, Kemper, and Middleditch were nuzzling fun and definitely not for the very easily squeamish, but Reggie Watts got to act as the very serious referee as well for Nuzzle Waaa?.
This definitely raises the stakes as far as late night talk show games go.
Watch it here from last night’s Late Late Show.