There are a bunch of important judgments being handed down in various courts across the land these days.
One of those judgments is on whether a hot dog is a sandwich and the honorable Judge John Hodgman lays down his law (which should matter because of his Judge John Hodgman podcast) on the matter while debating with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show.
Please enjoy it at 5:10 into this interview here.
To simply say that people are mad at the 45th President of the United States is to laughably underscore the rage the permeates the veins of millions of red blooded Americans and people worldwide.
Anthony Atamanuik, who, in our opinion, does the best job of satirically portraying Trump on The President Show, welcomes the catharsis he gives people by allowing them to openly mock and belittle him as Trump.
He details his journey in playing Trump up to this point in his interview on last night’s Colbert.
In their own specific manner, Conan O’Brien and Stephen Colbert are leading the way in late night.
Naturally, one being a guest on the other’s show is something to see and Conan’s interview on Colbert absolutely did not disappoint.
The stories of David Letterman’s “special” gift, hijinks in the Holy Land, and his Harvard ring are priceless as is the dynamic between two living comedy legends.
If you’re a student of comedy, you’ll really enjoy this.
From the get go, Jerry Seinfeld is analyzing every minute detail of his appearance while dipping in and out of jokes and talking about his new Netflix special, Jerry Before Seinfeld.
Then, there’s a curious turn right smack dab in the middle where there’s a frank discussion about Bill Cosby, what he used to mean to Stephen Colbert and Seinfeld, and the notion of separating the artist from their art.
The interview finishes with a bit of back-and-forth with Colbert picking apart some very Seinfeld-ian observations.
Watch the interview in parts one and two here.
Yeah, we can roll with Nick Kroll being America’s Cool Cousin.
Enjoy Kroll being such a “cool cousin” that Colbert struggles a little to keep it together here.
Basically, if you need a pick me up because of the state of the world right now, look no further than the pure ray of sunshine that is Tiffany Haddish in her interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
If you on board with Haddish from that, you might want to catch Girls Trip in theaters now and her Showtime comedy special TIFFANY HADDISH: SHE READY! FROM THE HOOD TO HOLLYWOOD that premieres this Friday, August 18th at 9PM.
Get a preview of what Tiffany’s bringing with her special here.
Whatever you take away from this, Stephen Colbert’s interview of Anthony Scaramucci is and will be a milestone in Colbert’s tenure at The Late Show.
It’s intriguing that Scaramucci picked Colbert, who has taken the lead in ratings in late night most likely for being outspoken against the Trump Administration and, on top of that, is a particularly sharp and prickly interviewer when he wants to be.
As you might expect, Scaramucci makes a concerted effort to not say the sorts of things that probably got him dismissed from his White House Communications Director gig in record time. Still, in awkwardly avoiding a mishap while Colbert probed his experience at The White House, you almost get the feeling your watching Veep (current showrunner David Mandel has commented how “Trump is doing us.”). Could we call this “gonzo comedy”?
So, without further adieu, watch Colbert interview Anthony Scaramucci here and here.
The story that Senator Franken shares about his another former Senator not having a great sense of humor is almost too good to be true.
Many of the best moments of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert come from when Colbert gets to really lean into political satire (i.e. interviews and segments rather than just monologue jokes).
This week, aptly dubbed “Russia Week”, Colbert will have plenty of that as we’ll all get to see bits of his trip to Russia starting tonight.
You’ll be able to see what Stephen got away with at 11:35PM on CBS.
When you saw that mysterious picture of one Stephen Colbert in Russia, it was unclear as to what exactly Colbert was up to.
We have no doubt that there will be some gem remote segments of Colbert being let loose around Russia, so keep a close eye to see what exactly Stephen got away with starting next Monday and going through Friday.
The FCC Will Not Fine Stephen Colbert for That Somewhat Explicit Monologue
Finally, this FCC does something we’re on board for.
Despite FCC Chairman Ajit Pai initially brushing off the blowback from Colbert’s comments about Trump in one recent opening monologue, thousands of complaints made them see if there was anything that could be subject to a fine.
Since late night has a little bit more breathing room in regards to content, there was nothing objectionable that the FCC found and they have thus decided to take no action on the matter.
So, we’re going to count this as a win for Colbert, free speech, late night, and, as a whole, comedy.
At the stroke of 11:35PM on tonight’s The Late Show, Stephen Colbert will reassemble the old Daily Show gang including Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Ed Helms, and Rob Corddry.
Like the poster above hints at, it really is an Avengers-esque reunion as each of those Daily Show correspondents have become legitimate stars on their own.
Since Comey got taken down today, odds are that they’ll have a nice, big camera pan off of all of them for some off-screen celebrating.
By now, you’ve probably caught wind of #FireColbert controversy, which has a certain group of people up in arms against Colbert for this line about Trump:
“…the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c— holster.” Watch the whole monologue here.
There have been accusations that the joke is homophobic, which we vehemently disagree with. The joke may be blue, but it hardly comes across as reflecting negatively on the sexual congress of the LGBTQ community. Even with that line taken out of context and transcribed here, the idea that Colbert should be sacked for this is ludicrous and sounds more like cries from people who already hate Colbert and we’re looking for a reason to launch a #FireColbert hashtag.
The new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai commented on the incident, “It’s a free country, and people are willing and able to say anything these days.” Yet, Pai and the FCC have somewhat changed their tune and will now be looking into the joke and whether it falls under “decency rules” in response to a number of complaints that the FCC has gotten about the joke.
We personally weren’t even going to write anything about this because we saw controversy being made where there wasn’t any controversy to be made.
However, Pai (who was promoted to FCC Chairman by Trump after Tom Wheeler stepped down) announcing that they will be officially looking into the monologue, after he was clearly aware of the “situation” and pretty much dismissed it, seems problematic and unnecessary.
Calm, collected, and just a tad eccentric, Sarah Tollemache got to make her debut doing stand-up on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night.
Please enjoy it here.
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.
Colbert’s Late Show Midnight Confessions to Be Made Into a Book
In addition to Colbert’s rise to the top of late night in these tense times, Colbert and company have found a reliable go-to recurring segment with “Midnight Confessions”.
The bit that has Stephen Colbert in an confessional admitting to the audience and viewers what he doesn’t have time to do at an actual church is one of the longest enduring segments on the show.
Now, it’ll be a book coming out later this year on September 5th from Simon & Schuster. As the book probably won’t be just one-liners the whole way through, you’ve got to wonder what other sort of “confessions”, stories, etc. that Colbert will have in there.
The audiobook version that will accompany this release ought to be a really fun bonus as well.
Louis C.K. has now realized that Trump is just a normal lowlife liar as opposed to Hitler, whom he made an original comparison in an e-mail to his mailing list.
Watch him explain it during last night’s Colbert.
One of the silliest things that H. Jon Benjamin has ever done in his illustrious career as a professional silly person is recording an entire jazz album with real jazz musicians without really knowing how to play jazz (or an instrument for that matter).
The album was called “Well, I Should Have…* Jon Benjamin-Jazz Daredevil” and the session players really didn’t know what was going on before they started recording.
On last night’s Colbert, Benjamin did a rare live performance from the album with Colbert’s house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human as well as Stephen Colbert himself on trumpet*.
*Stephen also says he doesn’t know how to play the trumpet.
Enjoy some top shelf goofing around here.
Also, you can get your own very copy of “Well, I Should Have…* Jon Benjamin-Jazz Daredevil” here.
NYC’s Anthony DeVito delivered a confident and jolly debut on late night last Friday. In fact, it didn’t seem like a debut and more like a return appearance, which we’re guessing will be in the cards for him.
Give it a watch here.
Tonight, President Trump will address Congress for the first time and as Trump appearing on anything is as unpredictable as a sporting event, there will be live commentary.
Specifically, there will be:
The Onion Presents Trump’s Address to Congress 6PM PST on Fusion
A special live edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 11:35PM
So, you’ll have in-game color commentary as well as post-game wrap-up of what’s very likely be a bunch of things that Trump will say that make you bury your face in your hands while sighing heavily and cursing.
Apparently, Jon Stewart misses being behind the desk. Thus, he came from underneath the desk and shared some words of wisdom with the media in what he calls a break-up in contrast to the “war” that Bannon paints in regards to Trump and the media.
Luckily, he probably can pop in almost any show of the Daily Show alums.
Also, don’t forget that Jon is supposed to have an animated HBO show coming sometime this year.
Very few comedians get to perform on The Late Show.
Even fewer have gotten the exclusive privilege of performing on The Late Show under both Letterman and Colbert.
With her set from last night, Carmen Lynch is now, and deservingly so, part of that small, esteemed group.
Watch her set here.
(via Variety)
Holding the Trump Administration’s feet to the fire is finally taking precedence over non-topical games.
Since her debut on TBS, Samantha Bee has almost tripled her ratings with her weekly show “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”. Though trailing Fallon and The Tonight Show since taking over The Late Show from David Letterman, Stephen Colbert has taken a slight nightly ratings lead over Jimmy in these recent weeks after Trump’s inauguration and the whirlwind insanity of executive orders, overturned bans, resignations, etc. have dominated the news. Stephen has not wavered in taking Trump to task and didn’t jostle his hair when Trump went on The Late Show.
That being said, The Tonight Show has got a bit edgier recently with having Jo Firestone play Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
Additionally, there seem to be an uptick in Colbert dropping F-bombs in the opening monologue as an appropriate expression of his feelings about what’s going on in The White House. There might not be a correlation with the new ratings lead, but it’s a shift in tactics from when Stephen used to just make fun of sidestepping explicit language because of being on CBS at 11:35PM.
Going forward, Bee will undoubtedly get more latitude to do even more of what she wants and Colbert might just increase his lead with being a more defiant Colbert. We’re sure that’s the Colbert that will be hosting when The Late Show goes live after the February 28th Trump address to Congress.
For every Bob Odenkirk late night appearance, it isn’t satisfactory enough to just do a straightforward panel interview.
The co-creator of Mr. Show has to sneak in some mischief in some way, shape, or form and Odenkirk opted for taking the idea of “trading places” and adding a Mr. Show-With Bob & David twist to it while on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Jon Stewart also made his latest appearance on Colbert by taking some fashion cues from the new POTUS taking note of how Trump doesn’t know how to wear a tie correctly.
Oh, this is probably a good time to remember that Stewart still has something brewing at HBO for this year.