Leave it to Billy Eichner to have New Yorkers gush about Reese Witherspoon while staring straight into the eyes of Kate McKinnon (i.e. not Reese Witherspoon). Don’t worry, there are a few that figured it out.
In any case, it’s another great ep. of Billy on the Street. Get into it here.
Earth Day was yesterday and comedian/actor/performance artist/activist(?) Moses Storm wasn’t going to sit idly by while our precious planet is in danger.
So, his solution to specifically fight the threat of global warming and climate change (even more specifically the receding glaciers up North), Moses took action by literally bringing ice to Iceland.
Please enjoy this here and also remember that you should take action to preserve Earth (and probably do something a little more actually environmentally conscious).
Last week, Conan O’Brien stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and told the story of how David Letterman sent a horse to Conan’s soundstage on the Warner Bros. lot and how much of a nightmare that ended up being.
Turns out Conan suspicions of Letterman sending a gift that was more of a joke than anything else was true, but things didn’t work out exactly how Dave would have liked.
On last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Letterman explained how he really wanted the prank gift to work, then bemoaned how it, technically, worked more effectively (in the sense of causing Conan distress) than initially intended.
Ever the prankster himself, Jimmy Kimmel jumped in with a perfect button to this story at 4:58 of this clip of the interview.
When it comes to antics, few are as committed to goofing around as TJ Miller is.
Apparently, everyone, including people working the red carpet, just went along with the fact the guy said he was famous comedian and actor Hannibal Buress.
We can only hope that this prank is the start of a rabbit hole that Hannibal will dive much further into.
Comedian (specifically what we’d like to dub as “gonzo comedian” as he becomes part of the joke he’s making), storyteller, actor, and performance artist Moses Storm has just released his latest piece where he hysterically tries to cheat running the LA Marathon for bragging rights.
At the risk of giving anything away or sounded more convoluted, we’ll let you enjoy Moses comedic genius right now.
Please watch CHEATING A MARATHON here.
NOTE: This video will be only up for 24 hours from the time it was posted, which means you have the rest of the afternoon, tonight, and tomorrow morning to watch it.
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.
Tig Notaro shared a set of baby pictures that not only rank among the best baby pictures of all time, but deserve a round of applause for how clever they are in getting on the pretty much, squeaky clean Tonight Show.
Watch to see what stunt Tig pulled off here.
Brent Weinbach almost already has the look down, so why shouldn’t he have some fun and tell people at a house comedy show that he’s a narc?
Watch him do just that with Lance Bangs’ Flophouse at Viceland.
The extra mile that John Oliver and his team at Last Week Tonight go might be cause for a new awards category.
This week’s episode of Last Week Tonight had Oliver break down credit reporting firms and how they can, for a small, but notable percentage of the time, ruin people’s lives by publishing a credit report riddled with errors. One of the major errors is being confused for another person entirely and vice versa due to a somewhat, yet barely similar resemblance in the name.
Knowing that a bad credit report can make it more difficult trying to get a job, a house, etc. So, Oliver is giving credit report forms a taste of their own medicine by launching sites that sound like Experian or Equifax.
His team and himself have set up websites for TramsOnion.com, Experianne, and EquiFacks to highlight how the margin for error should be as close to zero as possible rather than just generally being low.
Not only are the faux sites great in name, but their made-up purposes are the icing on the cake.
<a href=“http://natefernald.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-riviera-theatre”>Live At The Riviera Theatre by Nate Fernald</a>
Though he might have not known it at the time since he initially decided against a release, Nate Fernald one-upped the act of rick-rolling with Nate Fernald: Live at the Riviera Theatre.
Thankfully, despite his reservations at first, he has had a change of heart and released this album.
The whole album is free to listen and download off of Bandcamp.
For some reason, some people are of the opinion that Nathan Fielder isn’t a fun person.
Fielder wanted to squash any such notion and, of course, took to do so on his own terms with an extensive scientific test that would prove he’s fun on Nathan For You.
Simply put, Moses Storm is only getting started with his master plan in comedy.
This wonderfully absurd plan where Moses Kickstarted a space, where he would both live and “perform”, made a rare and great bit of comedy of verisimilitude. Also, his poking at the idea of a ‘millennial’ is pitch perfect in a way that both millennials and the older generations that hate them love it.
So, with that said, please watch and enjoy and spread #MODERNMILLENNIAL.
You’re already out shopping on Black Friday. Adding two comedy albums to whatever else you’re buying will be a bonus.
Both Jon Benjamin’s experimental jazz album, “Jazz Daredevil: Well, I Should Have*” where he doesn’t know how to play piano and attempts to play along side professional jazz musicians and Greg Proops’ latest stand-up album “In The Ball Park” both dropped today.
If anything, they should offer a great soundtrack to wade through the masses as your taking advantage of the leftovers of doorbuster deals today.
Get Jazz Daredevil, Well, I Should Have* from Sub Pop and In The Ball Park on iTunes or on vinyl from AST Records.
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.
It’s been long the dread of many men in a heterosexual relationship of what they would do in a woman’s clothing store while they’re girlfriend or wife shopped.
Fortunately, Nathan Fielder has got a solution and it’s more than just some comfy seating in a corner.
It’s called a “Man Zone” and it’s made complete with awkward conversation with Nathan.
At this point, Paul Rudd has pranked Conan O’Brien by playing the same clip from Mac and Me rather than a clip from a movie that he’s promoting.
He’s done it so many times that we’re all expecting it.
So, how can Rudd still make the same joke surprising, especially when Conan brings up the history of Rudd, Conan, and Mac and Me?
Well, just watch Rudd do it again flawlessly while promoting one of his biggest movies to date, Ant-Man.
Well, here’s a great example of a prank where rather than a victim, there’s a winner as well as some nice promotion for San Andreas.
What started out as a bit for Screen Junkies during a press junket long ago has turned into not only a friendship between one of their own, Nick Mundy, and The Rock, but has made for one hell of a surprise wedding prank (an actual legally binding wedding FYI) that, for our money, tops all those choreographed proposal videos on YouTube.
Watch it all go hilariously and wonderfully go down here.
For those that were convinced that Jimmy Kimmel was behind this, they apparently have forgotten Funny or Die’s Huvr hoverboard prank and Gungan Style.
Funny or Die pulled a great post April Fool’s Day prank by manufacturing an on-set meltdown with Dennis Quaid that people either thought was real or was the work of Jimmy Kimmel Live and company, then revealing a damn clever full video “explaining” what happened.
Good call on FoD for waiting after April 1st for maximum effect.
This is only one of many amazing Sean O’Connor high school tales and we’re thankful that he’s doing stand-up so we can hear all of them.
This latest story from This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir shows the sort trouble that O’Connor would get into merely from doing a routine dissection in a Biology class. Apparently, it’s the sort of trouble that comes with examining whether this is going to form a pattern of sociopathic behavior.
Watch what happened here.
Wonderful sketch performer and improviser Mark David Christenson put on a quite show on the night of The Oscars. He wasn’t actually attending the ceremony. He was only holding a fake Oscars statue and walking around Hollywood in a tuxedo as part of a prank put on by New Media Rockstars. Doing that got him pretty much everything he wanted for free. He gets away with so much without much explanation that we’re pretty sure The Academy will be on the lookout for this next year.
Watch how he pulled it off here.
While on The Late Show with David Letterman last night, Michael Cera gave Letterman an update on what he’s up to.
Apparently, Cera is attempting to prank Sundance Film Festival audiences and then it going much different than expected as well as dazzling his new German girlfriend by taking her to the world’s biggest basket in Ohio.
We wouldn’t be surprised at all if any of these stories are the seeds for a new Arrested Development episode.
During his panel interview last night on Conan, Hannibal Buress gave us some insight to his life right now, specifically on Scarlett Johannson being a fan and meeting her as well as tweeting out that Comedy Central picked up his show when really that was just positive thinking.
After watching the clip, let’s all hope Hannibal’s tweet of a vision board makes The Secret work for once so we can see him get his own show.
One of the best bits in late night retains its title as Jimmy Kimmel invited the entire cast of Monuments Men, George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Bill Murray, and Bob Balaban on to Jimmy Kimmel Live and they all decided to screw with the other cast member/Kimmel nemesis Matt Damon.
Watch this in all of its comedic glory.
So, Randy Liedtke’s iPhone Cookie Prank Seems Have to Gotten Him Into Trouble with the Law
A couple of days ago, we reported that Randy Liedtke was attempting to pull off another great prank in baking cookies in the shape of iPhone, then look like he’s talking on it while driving, then eat it when questioned by the police.
Well, thus far, the police seem to have not like Liedtke’s prank and Randy went to a police station.