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.
HBO has already done specials parodying tennis, 7 Days in Hell, and baseball, Ferrell Takes the Field. Now, they’re moving on to the world of competitive cycling, specifically the part where they catch athletes using PEDs.
Called Tour De Pharmacy, they’ve got Andy Samberg, John Cena, Daveed Diggs, Orlando Bloom, Freddie Highmore, and even, somehow, Lance Armstrong playing a part in this Tour De France send-up.
See for yourself in this trailer.
Look for the premiere on July 8th at 10PM on HBO.
Megan Amram Pens an Open Letter from Trump’s Doctor Harold Bornstein
Every once in awhile, Megan Amram posts a gem on her Tumblr. This latest work is a send-up of Trump’s doctor that you probably know from pictures of his goofy looking mug, Dr. Harold Bornstein, via a satirical open letter.
Amram writes as Bornstein:
Mr. Trump is not only the healthiest president that has ever served, but also the most handsome. I usually want to kiss President Trump when I see him, but I would never break the doctor-patient trust, so instead I kiss the portrait of him I drew on my little note pad. There have been no presidents that even come close to President Trump in terms of overall health and hotness. Franklin Pierce was pretty hot, but his body wasn’t great. James Garfield was more cute than hot. President Trump is the total package. I know this because of my stethoscope.
Read and enjoy the rest here.
Perhaps, this might be the most accurate portrayal of POTUS Trump yet.
Watch and enjoy Anthony Atamanuik’s brilliance here.
This segment shows how The President Show can satirize Trump happenings and gaffes beautifully and in a way that other late night shows really can’t do.
The galaxy in which Star Wars takes place always seem to be at war with some sort of Empire-Rebellion dynamic.
That being said, we’re betting trillions of beings inhabit said galaxy just trying to live their lives.
Writer/director Thomas Wood and Dave Ross and Steve Hernandez gives us one of those stories just in time for Star Wars Day with Outer Rim.
Talk Show the Game Show shows how to make a late night game that is not only very clever and fun, but also guest-specific.
Please enjoy what might be the most badass version of Moby you’ve ever seen in this clip from Talk Show the Game Show with Guy Branum.
Since Trump will not be attending this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner probably because he gets his ego and feelings hurt enough on a daily basis, Danny Zuker, writer and EP on Modern Family, has done us all a favor and whipped up a version of Trump’s speech might be like.
Here’s a fun excerpt:
“Melania couldn’t be here tonight because she’s already been in the same room with me this month and a deal’s a deal! I’m kidding. We’re very much in love. Thank you. It’s very physical and tender. (Hold for the audience to say “awwww” for five minutes.)”
When reading it, you might think it might be overdoing it, but then we’d urge you to revisit Trump’s “performance” at the Al Smith Dinner and see how potentially close to reality this piece could have been.
Hidden America with Jonah Ray is indeed a fake travel show that expertly skewers the whole TV genre that explores the culture of traveling here and abroad. The upcoming season has excited for more sharp, nuanced parodies of what real travel shows done in real cities with guests Joel Hodgson, Yvette Nicole Brown, Janet Varney and Jorge Garcia.
Also, in blurring the lines between the parody and real world, the one and only Anthony Bourdain of Parts Unknown fame, and a particularly incensed one at that, makes what seems to be a “fun” cameo on this new season of Hidden America.
See all of this and more in the season 2 trailer, then look for the season to start streaming on Seeso on Thursday, May 4th.
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.
Maybe it’s because it’s just a fictional reality versus our actual reality, but Jonah’s latest foibles with his public image via his own website, Selina’s desperate attempt to seem caring and likable, and Richard Splett’s “engrossing” blog make for a world that seems a little better than our own.
So, do enjoy the rabbit hole of bonus interactive content that Veep has gifted us all for season six, which includes a Selina Meyer “on-line literacy test”.
Over a decade ago, Dave Hill initiated one of the funniest exchanges ever in trying to start a Norwegian Black Metal band with a kid from Indiana. The conversations became known as The Black Metal Dialogues.
All these years later, Dave and actual bandmate Phil Costello are going to do The Black Metal Dialogues Live! next month at The Viper Room on the Sunset Strip.
Even if you’re not a metal head, we’re pretty sure you’ll enjoy “the vagina monologues of black metal”.
Please get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
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.
If you love absurdist, experimental comedy, please commit the name Jamie Loftus to memory (we’ve suggested doing this on a number of occasions as we find Jamie to be hysterical).
You can see why we love Jamie with her latest endeavor that mixes ballet, conspiracy theory, President Ronald Reagan, and choose your own adventure all into one event that will be livestreamed.
We’ll actually let Jamie further explain “Swan Lake Live! (from a Locked Basement)”:
The premise of the show goes: it is March 30, 1981, the day of Reagan’s assassination attempt, and I play a ballerina/government spy named um Jamie Loftus which is my name and my associate Gary and I come to in a locked basement that is slowly filling with gas from a stove full of ham upstairs. Suspecting that our employer, the president, may be in danger, we are tasked with escaping the basement and saving Ronald Reagan (who is a shitty president but we don’t know that yet it’s only 1981 keep up) while still performing Swan Lake in its entirety.
WHY WE NEED YOU: Because this is a livestream, I’m introducing several choose-your-own-adventure style choices in the show, including whether I should do a complicated ballet dance in a Ronald Reagan mask or whether I should buttchug a bottle of milk after punching through a pinata I made of Jodie Foster’s head.
THERE WILL BE: five dances to Swan Lake, five choices for the audience, three original cartoons from me Jamie, two miserable ballerina ingenues trapped in a basement that is slowly filling with gas, two costume changes I have to do live on camera and only one chance to see it live.
Also, my boyfriend is a young man named John Hinckley Junior, a man who you may not have heard of as of March 30, 1981 but who I think has the potential to really make something of himself.
Pretty great, right?
You can get more details about Swan Lake Live! (From a Locked Basement) here and livestream it on JASH tomorrow at 12PM PST-3PMPST.
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.
For comedy nerds/completists/collectors, a massive new collector’s box set featuring the entire Weird Al Yankovic catalog. This will include a brand new album, exclusive to the set, that has unreleased tracks and rarities from Yankovic’s own vault.
Called Medium Rarities, it includes songs from the beginning of Weird Al’s career to present day. Here’s a great promo complete with a Super Mario Bros. style game with Weird Al in it showing what’s on the album.
The Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of “Weird Al” Yankovic costs $475 and is only available in limited quantities. We’re guessing the limited run has something to do with the box set being in the shape of an accordion.
Pre-order it here and get it on November 24th this year.
We weren’t kidding about that pull quote from our ‘100 Best’ list from last year.
F*ck This Late Night Show, the late night talk show that has an enemy force actively trying to ruin the show, was so damn fun.
They’re finally doing another version of it next week and you really ought to not miss it.
Tickets are only $5 and you can (and really should) get them here.
The latest Fictional Roast at the Nerdmelt Showroom is set for next Tuesday and will take on Disney Princesses.
Yes, that means the dais for this roast will be comprised of Disney Princesses.
Roasting as princesses will be:
Scout Durwood
Kate Quigley
Andy Erikson
Candice Thompson
Riley Silverman
Jenn Sterger
Leah Kayajanian
Heidi Heaslet
Atsuko Okatsuka
Get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Every once in awhile, the intersection at Beverly and Genesee at CBS Television City gets surprised with a presentation of a famous musical courtesy of The Late Late Show with James Corden that happens on the crosswalk while the light is red.
Of course, this means it’s a much, much, much more abridged version lest Corden and company wish to further run the risk of getting hit by cars.
Their latest ‘crosswalk musical’ takes on Beauty and the Beast and even has stars of the movie musical adaptation Luke Evans, Dan Stevens, and Josh Gad join in holding up traffic to sing and dance in period costume.
How much Corden is a taskmaster, especially since he has the credibility of a Tony Award to back him up, in these segments is pretty fun.
The jump scare game phenomenon known as Five Nights at Freddy’s got the Rick and Morty treatment with aliens having to stay at a human home instead of humans having to keep watch at a haunted Chuck E. Cheese knock-off.
If you’re unfamiliar of why the game deserves parody, here’s Honest Game Trailers’ take on Five Nights at Freddy’s.
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.
Tonight at midnight, you’ll get to really see how high functioning Doug Benson can be while he is “high as F” and somehow presiding over real court cases.
Watch the series premiere of The High Court with Judge Doug Benson tonight at 12AM on Comedy Central.
For Conan O’Brien’s upcoming “Conan Without Borders: Made in Mexico”, one of Conan’s brilliant segments will be going around to see if the people of Mexico are really going to pay for the border wall that Trump promised.
Watch to see how much, if any, money Conan collected for that “big, beautiful” wall. (spoiler alert: he doesn’t get any money, but what Mexicans offer up to Trump is pretty great.)
This very special episode of Conan premieres on Wednesday, March 1st at 10PM on TBS.
Here’s an opportunity to take a break from speaking out at actual town halls and enjoy a fake “American Town Hall” next week where all you need to do is laugh at “citizen speakers” from Newport, RI.
It’s $5 at the door and the ticket sales go to ACLU, so you’re still doing a good thing by going.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Trepany House and Steve Allen Theater are still standing and shows that you should see are still happening.
One of our favorite shows that happens on their stage is the Tomorrow Show with Ron Lynch’s Hook-Up!, a great spoof of The Dating Game. Valentine’s Day is well past us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still all make heavily poke fun at love, relationships, and trying to date.
Hook-Up! is happening this Saturday at midnight. Tickets are $8 and you can (and should) get them here or at the door.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.