For years, Conan O’Brien has ridiculed his Associate Producer Jordan Schlansky for how Italian he tries to be.
Tonight, a Conan Without Borders travel special will showcase O’Brien taking that dynamic to the next level by actually galavanting around Italy with Schlanksy being as serious and sobering and stonefaced as only one Jordan Schlansky can be.
This premieres marks Tracy Morgan’s return to being a sitcom star following that long break from a near fatal car accident, Jordan Peele’s delving back into comedy as co-creator, TBS’ latest scripted series, and another milestone in Tiffany Haddish’s continuing meteoric rise from 2017.
Your curiosity has got to be peaked at the very least.
The Last O.G. will debut tonight at 10:30PM on TBS.
As the upcoming travel special, Conan in Italy, is pretty much an excuse to mock infamous Associate Producer Jordan Schlansky, it might be one of the best Conan travel specials yet.
While just discussing the trip, which Conan sort of surprised Jordan with at the last minute, Conan and Jordan get to a boiling point in their dynamic and finally, FINALLY, Schlansky displays some human emotion.
See for yourself here.
Oh, Conan in Italy premieres on April 11th on TBS. It’s pretty clear that you’re going to want to watch that.
The Last O.G. is yet another highly anticipated series up TBS’ sleeve as it not only marks the return of Tracy Morgan to a being TV series star, but it’s a series that’s co-created by Jordan Peele and features Tiffany Haddish as the co-star.
The show’s premise is simple enough with contrasting the Brooklyn of yesteryear to the Brooklyn of 2018 through Morgan’s character of a former prison inmate. Peele, Morgan, and Haddish together should have plenty of fun espousing their sensibilities within this comedic framework. This series could have been a multi-cam, but we are thankful that it’s not as that will open up the series to so much more possibility.
See for yourself in the trailer.
Lena Waithe’s Queer Comedy ‘Twenties’ Comedy Gets Pilot Order at TBS
From Master of None to The Chi to this latest project, Lena Waithe has made huge leaps and bounds into a name that you need to know in TV and comedy as well as a voice that you need to hear.
We can only hope that TBS orders Twenties to series to see what Lena’s comedy about a queer black girl figuring life out in 20s will look, sound, and feel like.
Just a friendly reminder that one of America’s best unofficial goodwill ambassadors, Conan O’Brien, will showcase his trip to Haiti and what we’re sure to be the plenty of hijinks he had the whole way through.
Diplomacy through late night hijinks might just be one of our best bets right now for America.
Conan Without Borders might do more good for America’s image than a lot of what the White House is currently doing.
You can see for yourself in these previews for Conan’s latest trip to Haiti.
Perhaps, comedy is the best medicine and (possibly) form of diplomacy?
Olan Rogers’ Final Space will be TBS’ newest animated series as well as an sci-fi series that seems to offer up something that’s equally as silly as it is a show that gives “all the feels”. Think of the more cathartic episodes of Futurama, perhaps?
Watch and see for yourself in the full trailer here, then look for the series premiere on Monday, February 26th.
Conan O’Brien’s Conan Without Borders has developed from what used to be a special out-of-the-studio part of Conan into a full-fledged goodwill initiative. With Trump as POTUS, there’s plenty to do in that regard and it looks like O’Brien will be starting off 2018 by going to a country that Trump referred to as a “sh*thole country” when discussing immigration reform with lawmakers.
So, we can’t wait to see what Team Coco comes up with in hopping around the world this year.
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Gets 2 More Seasons at TBS, Which Will Carry the Series Into 2020
As you probably well know, 2020 will be the year when we do all the election chaos again.
Thankfully, Samantha Bee and her crew will be there to help ease the pain a little.
One TBS Digital Pilot Will Be Given in Turner/Refinery29 Women’s Comedy Writers Lab
This weekend in NYC, Sasheer Zamata, Ashley Nicole Black, Lakshmi Sundaram, and Meredith Scardino will mentor Jonterri Gadson, Kim Blanck, Andrea Simons, Christina Anthony, Ariana Seigel, Susannah Bohlke, Atsuko Okatsuka, and Fareeha Khan as part exclusive women’s comedy writers lab put up by Turner and Refinery 29.
From the weekend’s workshop, one TBS digital pilot will be given to one project. It’s clear that TBS is continuing to be one of the more exciting, innovative places in comedy right now.
It is 2017 and, if you’ve followed any of the recent news of indie film figures being taken down by a history of sexual assault and harassment, a crystal clear refresher course might be needed for plenty of folks.
There are many facets to the comedy of Moses Storm of which we enjoy. Modern Millennial and Terminally Chill Birthday are just a couple of Moses’ performance art pranks that got us on board for whatever Moses is doing.
He also has honed his skills in storytelling and stand-up that maintains Moses’ truthful, yet silly brand of humor.
See for yourself in this first late night stand-up appearance from last night’s Conan.
If you thought that the gang of Alia Shawkat, John Reynolds, Meredith Hagner, and John Early lost sight of the forest for the trees in season 1 in Search Party, season 2 has them seeing the forest and think the trees are somehow watching them, if that makes some sort of sense.
In any case, this trailer for season 2 looks even more delectable as it definitely seems like they have all dug themselves into a bigger hole.
TBS Renews Wrecked, People Of Earth, and The Guest Book
Wrecked and People of Earth are getting a third season and The Guest Book is being re-upped for a second.
This would be an opportune moment to note that TBS programming line-up currently includes all of those shows as well as Angie Tribeca, Search Party, The Detour, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, and Conan.
It’s pretty solid now and, we bet, beacuse of this, you’d have a hard time remembering what TBS used to be like and when exactly they were the channel had many more multi cam sitcoms.
Jenny Zigrino returned to Conan’s stage for another delightful late night stand-up set last night. From her dangerous posterior to summarizing country songs, Jenny went through a tight five and a half minutes we really enjoyed.
Watch and also enjoy it here.
Per usual, The New York Comedy Festival is stacked as evidenced by Conan O’Brien being a part of it and announcing the headlining line-up (and trying to double up on a “farewell”) in this video here.
The NY Comedy Festival runs from 11/7-11/12 this year and you can get more details and tickets here.
The Chris Gethard Show LIVE season 3 premiere, 11PM EST on TruTV (again, here’s a guide of how to watch it live wherever you are in the U.S.)
The Guest Book series premiere, 10PM TBS
What Would Diplo Do? series premiere, 10PM Viceland
Tonight, you have Gethard’s revered version of a talk show that defies pretty much any and all conventions, a single camera sitcom from Greg Garcia that focuses on the guests of one hotel, and a series sending-up EDM mogul Diplo, starring James Van Der Beek as Diplo.
Sounds like a pretty fun night to us if you decide to stay in.
At 10:30PM, you can continue to see how the various alien agendas continue to work their way into an endearing sitcom with the season 2 premiere of People of Earth on TBS.
As teasers and trailers a plenty are dropping all weekend long because of Comic Con, TBS has a sneak peek for their first wave of original animated series.
That includes Close Enough from JG Quintel (Regular Show), Tarantula from Carson D. Mell (Silicon Valley, Eastbound & Down), and Final Space from Olan Rogers.
Though in all different settings, all three shows are “out there” in the own unique way. Also, Final Space has a pretty star studded line-up of voice talent including Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter, Ron Perlman, Steven Yeun, Tom Kenny, and David Tennant to name a few.
See all of this for yourself in the sneak peeks, respectively here, here, and here.
As you all are probably well aware of, resisting takes a lot out of you.
So, you might be like Samantha Bee from this week’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and need some much needed words of encouragement.
Bee got it from one of the most best around, Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Watch it here and feel free to imagine yourself in Bee’s seat as well.
Conan O’Brien going to Comic-Con every year is one of the best annual traditions going in late night.
If you’re at Comic-Con, getting to see this is probably, we’d say, as going to a panel at Hall H.
This summer, TV will have two comedies that center on the different events with different characters that take place in same hotel.
HBO will have The Duplass Brothers’ Room 104 and TBS will have The Guest Book. Both look very intriguing in their own distinct ways and The Guest Book from Greg Garcia also has a pretty nice cast boasting Jenna Fischer, Michael Rapaport, Jaime Pressly, Lauren Lapkus, Michaela Watkins, and Margo Martindale.
See for yourself in the first teaser for The Guest Book, then catch the series premiere on Thursday, August 3rd on TBS.
One of the more exciting things, for us (and hopefully for you), coming to TBS soon is the new eponymous TV series from The Dress Up Gang.
If you’re a long time fan, this teaser for the TBS series is the newest bit of Dress Up Gang that has been dropped in quite some time. If you’re new to them, please enjoy this little morsel that captures what they do pretty well.
In either case, it’s pretty swell to see TBS is continuing to put money down on their off-kilter brand of comedy.
In the flurry of upfronts, we missed the mention of how the much beloved Dress Up Gang will be adapting their cult hit web series My Roommate, My Friend into a full fledged TV show at TBS. The show focuses on a subtle, yet slight absurd relationship between two roommates that is simultaneously two friends living together and something like a legal guardian taking care of a child.
The TV adaptation of the web series is currently untitled, but it very much follows the premise of the original.
They actually took down all the episodes from various sources online. So, until the show hits the air, you’ll have to had been lucky enough to catch them in years past to really see what we’re talking about.
Hopefully, the premiere will be very soon.
