Like Trevor Noah says in this interview, Tiffany Haddish is the human equivalent of a sun shining light to us all.
She shares some stories with Noah that are all written down (and spoken in audiobook form) in her new book The Last Black Unicorn, which you can (and should) get here.
As you can clearly see (as well as hear on her episode of The Crabfeast), it’ll be one hell of a book.
The President Show, Drunk History, and The Daily Show to Have Holiday Specials
More specifically…
Because one of Drunk History’s most beloved episodes focused on Christmas and The President Show handled Halloween pretty well (in addition to the whole show being one of the best comedic takes on Trump, end of discussion), we’re actually looking forward to these specials.
Trevor Noah to Host The Daily Show Through 2022
Many late night hosts have their future secured up until 2020 and Comedy Central is more than doubling down on their current Daily Show host, Trevor Noah, who did win a Creative Arts Emmy.
No one else in late night is currently renewed that far in the future (Fallon is re-upped to 2021), which will see Trevor far past the next presidential election. It’s hard to say how exactly it’ll look, but we have no doubt that late night will have gone through many more changes by the time 2022 rolls around. Suffice it to say that Comedy Central has a whole lot of faith in Noah.
This weekend, a whole pop-up museum dedicated to examining POTUS’ Twitter account will open in NYC thanks to The Daily Show at 3 West 57th Street near Fifth Avenue.
You’ll be able to tweet from a golden toilet, watch a montage of what Trump thinks is “Sad!”, hear stories of people who got into a Twitter fight with Trump, and other such exhibits that would normally exist in museum, but focused completely on @realdonaldtrump on Twitter. While this is all done in the name of continuing to send up Trump and the absurdity of his administration, his tweets are, unfortunately, are and will forever be important to the historical record.
You’ll be able to check it out, free of charge, from 11AM-7PM, Friday, June 16th-Sunday, June 18th.
In 2014, Dave Chappelle did a whole run of shows at the legendary Radio City Music Hall featuring guests like The Roots.
That seemed to go pretty well.
So, Dave is doing it again this August with plenty of the aforementioned big name guests. Tickets for this residency will go on sale this Friday.
Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele team up once more for their Obama and Anger Translator Luther sketch that just might sum up how you’re feeling with less than two weeks before Trump’s inauguration. It actually might sum up your feelings more loudly than you could have imagined.
Key & Peele’s Obama and Anger Translator Luther Appearing on Daily Show Tonight
11PM on Comedy Central, one of the most memorable parts of both Key & Peele and the Obama Administration will go for one last ride.
President Barack Obama Will Be on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Next Monday
Given that these are the final weeks of Obama’s presidency that will transition into a Trump presidency (barring something crazy happening by way of faithless electors), this interview on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah will be more historic than it should be. If any other presidential candidate on either side had won the election, it would have the potential to be more of a footnote. Since a reality TV star is now set to be POTUS, appearances on satirical comedy programs and late night are given as more weight than they ever have.
Honestly, we’d be surprised if the conversation was very funny as there are more important matters than getting to bits. Still, Obama will go down as one of the funniest President and it would be hard to imagine him not taking to opportunity to deliver another zinger on The Daily Show.
We don’t know exactly what will happen during this appearance, but it should be a good reminder that Obama will be sticking around fighting to maintain his legacy and prevent the unraveling of democracy.
Tune in Monday, December 12th at 11PM for this inevitably historic moment.
If you’re in Vancouver in February, you would be doing yourself a big favor by going to JFL Northwest.
Just look at that line-up stacked with some of the best from around the country as well as local to Vancouver.
Tickets go on sale at 10AM PST this Friday, December 2nd right here.
Trevor Noah Solidifies Voice as Host of The Daily Show in Interview with Tomi Lahren
Last night, Trevor Noah’s interview with outspoken conservative pundit Tomi Lahren showed that Noah can own The Daily Show with his own voice that’s distinctly different from Jon Stewart.
In transitioning from the cultural institution that was The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, many different strategies have been employed in having Trevor Noah take the baton successfully from Stewart.
Accomplishing that has been tricky, to say the least, with the departure of longtime favorites Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, and John Oliver to do their own late night show elsewhere and having much of America meeting Noah for the first time as a host of The Daily Show rather than the insanely popular, globe trotting comedian first.
In an interview that reaches almost 30 minutes, Trevor might have found the groove that will see him through as the host and these upcoming years of the Trump Administration.
It’s not Stewart’s famous takedown of Jim Mad Money Cramer, but that’s not what suits Noah. Instead, poise and calm let him have a rational debate with the fiery Lahren and gave room to pick apart her arguments at his pace with the occasional satirical poke here and there. It’s engaging on Noah’s terms and might be precedent for more counterpoint-type guests for him in the future.
Watch and see for yourself in full, extended interview at the link above.
It probably won’t make up for the wall-to-wall news coverage and the anxiety that you’ve been feeling for months now, but Colbert will be cursing on Showtime with Patton Oswalt, Larry Wilmore, Jeff Goldblum, Jena Friedman, and Nick Offerman as guests and both The Daily Show and @midnight will go on live tonight.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah LIVE 8PM PST on Comedy Central
Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night: Democracy’s Series Finale: Who’s Going to Clean Up This Sh*t? 8PM PST on Showtime
@midnight with Chris Hardwick LIVE 9PM PST
Desus & Mero Live Election Special 11PM PST on Viceland
Until then, you can enjoy The Chris Gethard Election Special on MNN or The Weather Channel’s Chill Marathon starting at noon.
A recent initiative, dubbed “extreme vetting”, was added to Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policy this week. It calls for questioning of potential immigrants’ sympathies toward extremist religious views, LBGTQ people, women, etc.
With this litmus test, The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper wanted to see how many a Trump supporter would fare on this ‘extreme vetting’ test and did some field research at a Trump rally to find out.
Spoiler alert: you probably won’t be surprised by the results whatsoever.
Mike Birbiglia’s extended interview on this week’s Daily Show not only shows some fascinating aspects surrounding his new movie, Don’t Think Twice, including making up a joke about Trump running for president before Trump announced he was running (The Simpsons did awhile ago, but the fact that Trump ran after anyone on TV and in movies joked about it is still pretty crazy) and the comparison of violent PG-13 movies versus the inexplicable R-rating that his movie got, but shows why you should follow anything Birbiglia is doing.
In Jamestown, New York (the current home of the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum and the future site of The National Comedy Center), the 25th Annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival will be taking place and feature the likes of Brian Regan, Trevor Noah, roundtable discussions on the legacies of Richard Pryor/Lenny Bruce/George Carlin, I Love Lucy 65th anniversary exhibition, Story Pirates, and way more.
If this all sounds good to you and you’re in upstate New York from Thursday, August 4th to Sunday, August, 7th, you might want to 25th Lucille Ball Comedy Festival tickets here.
Trevor Noah and all of the correspondents, Hasan Minhaj, Roy Wood Jr., Jordan Klepper, and Desi Lydic had their sincere goodbye to Jessica Williams in her final episode of The Daily Show last night.
Watch it and try not tearing up like Jessica here.
The two week trip should be a nice reset button for Noah and company.
From Tuesday, July 19th-Friday, July 22nd and Tuesday, July 26th-Friday, July 29th, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah will be taping live at the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention, respectively.
The chaos that’s bound to happen should provide for a fortnight of highlight worthy Daily Show.
You can actually get tickets to both the DNC and RNC tapings now.
In case you haven’t noticed, Michelle Wolf will be joining what is still a pretty stellar collection of Daily Show contributors.
Jessica Williams, Hasan Minhaj, Roy Wood Jr., Jordan Klepper, Ronnie Chieng, Desi Lydic, Al Madrigal, John Hodgman, Aasif Mandvi, and Adam Lowitt are the current members of the “best f#@king news team”, which is already pretty impressive.
Now they’ll be getting even better with the addition Wolf as a contributor and writer. She has been a highlight of Late Night with Seth Meyers with all of her segments and characters that have been featured throughout.
Whenever Wolf’s Daily Show debut is, be sure to catch it.
(via The Wrap)
Despite recent unfavorable reviews and pieces written about The Daily Show’s new host, Trevor Noah, the heads of Comedy Central want to assure you that they’re still jazzed about Noah and where he could take the show.
This week’s Comedy Central Upfronts presentation had Network President Michelle Ganeless and Original Programming Chief Kent Alterman commenting on the reception of Noah after a few months of hosting The Daily Show. They redoubled the confidence in their choice by saying, “We fully believe in him, we feel like he keeps finding his voice more and more,” and adding that they have “a deep reservoir of patience”.
If you’re in the camp that pines for the days of Jon Stewart, you should know that there’s plenty of that to be had with Daily Show with Jon Stewart alums John Oliver and Samantha Bee and their respective shows Last Week Tonight and Full Frontal.
As of this post, Adele Carpool Karaoke is almost at the 70 million view mark on YouTube, which, according to Deadline, is now the new pinnacle of viral late night clips.
For decades, the format of the late night talk show had pretty much stayed the same with all the trappings of monologues, well tailored suits, desk pieces, celebrity guests, bands.
Now, in the 2010s, the tried and true format of late night is no longer tried and true. Rather than hanging out and hearing the crazy stories of famous people, viewers of late night seem to want to see something crazy actually happen on the show and perhaps only that.
James Corden took over The Late Late Show from Craig Ferguson only last year, relatively unknown in America, and has now scored a viral video that has out performed all the silly games that Jimmy Fallon, the late night leader pretty much from his start at The Tonight Show, plays with A-listers pretty much every night that he tapes an episode.
When Corden inherited The Late Late Show, there was scarcely any online presence for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as brief out-of-context interview clips were the only thing that would CBS would bother uploading on to YouTube. There is a reason that Corden went from pretty much zero to 70 million hits in a matter of a months.
The Internet and, more specifically, YouTube and social media, have commodified late night TV into more of a spectacle than it ever was. Remote segments, games, trips outside the studio are all things that are resonating with the current landscape of late night. Adele singing and joking around with James Corden being the most watched late night YouTube clip perfectly illustrates this change.
Such things specifically include Conan O’Brien doing any of his segments out in the wild or going abroad, Jimmy Fallon’s Lip Sync Battle, the pranks that Jimmy Kimmel hatches or his ongoing faux feud with Matt Damon, the deep segments on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that are uploaded early Monday morning. You’ll note that you’ve probably seen all of these an almost innumerable times on your various social media feeds, both in embedded video and in .gif form.
Sure, Letterman used to throw random things off of a roof and Leno used to find dumb people out on the street who didn’t know what we’d all assume is basic common knowledge for JayWalking. However, in 2016, you don’t have to watch all of The Late Show or The Tonight Show just to get to watch those segments or bits. At any time of the day, you can watch just those specific parts, over and over and over, and nothing else.
With this being the case, many of those aforementioned late night tropes like the opening monologue of topical jokes and desk pieces are slowly fading in relevance in favor of what makes for the most viral sounding headline.
When Conan does entire special episodes where he travels to remote locations, it more resembles something that Anthony Bourdain would do rather than The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
Last Week Tonight, @midnight, and now, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all offer something also atypical of what late night has been for so very long by trading chats with celebrities for dozens more topical jokes that aren’t merely delivered while standing on stage without a video package to throw to. Their success is signs of the winds of change at 11PM onwards.
With all of that being said, the old guard late night talk show is, for now, still in tact. Stephen Colbert is, in a surprising turn from The Colbert Report, presenting a very high brow, well executed version of the traditional late night talk show. In fact, Colbert pulls off many feats as a late night talk show host, especially when it comes to who he books and how he interviews or interacts with who he books, that his competition cannot because they’re off focusing on all the things mentioned above. Whether he can ascend to the top of the mountain of late night like his predecessor David Letterman did and stay there has yet to be seen, but Colbert definitely has the brilliance to do so.
Oh yeah, because of Trevor Noah, Larry Wilmore, and Samantha Bee, there is finally more than one late night show right now not hosted by a white guy.
Though they’re inevitably some doubters and skeptics, all these new trends are probably for the best. When it’s easier to watch live TV and stream content on the Internet on the same device (and that’s probably pretty soon), know that late night is only going to get more shaken up.
In an interview promoting his upcoming special on Netflix, Comedy Camisado, Hannibal Buress discovered that a recent performance in South Africa was even weirder than he initially thought it was. Trevor Noah tipped Hannibal to the fact that some of the audience wasn’t expecting a comedy show.
Watch the whole interview here.
The former host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, did indeed make a return to said Daily Show last night. He wasn’t filling in for Trevor, as his t-shirt and jeans might suggest, or there to promote some book or movie he was working on. Stewart only sought the platform to make sure that the Zadroga Bill, which ensures proper health care for 9/11 first responders, will be renewed.
As longtime fans of The Daily Show know, Stewart is at his most affecting when he’s fired up about the issue and he did so in the two segments he got last night.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
Trevor Noah has not only put South Africa on the map comedy-wise, but him hosting at The Daily Show will have given African comedy a big spark.
For the next 3 years and potentially longer, Comedy Central will be hosting an international comedy festival, simply called The Comedy Central International Comedy Festival. Its inaugural run will take place very soon in Johannesburg, South Africa which will be the perfect place to stage a homecoming for the network’s newest franchise star, Trevor Noah.
With Comedy Central’s banner flying at the festival, the likes of Jeff Ross, Hannibal Buress, and more will be on the same stages as some of African comedy’s rising stars.
Thousands upon thousands are expected to be in attendance and if that does indeed happen, this festival will be in the league with JFL Montreal and The Melbourne International Comedy Festival i.e. the biggest comedy festivals in the world.
David Rees gave Trevor Noah, The Daily Show, and, really, all of us a taste of how great Going Deep with David Rees is by demonstrating to Trevor how exactly to pet a dog.
As well as being entertained by Rees’ paper mache dog, we’re guessing that you’ll learn something as well.
Lewis Black is the most senior contributor at The Daily Show with the Back in Black segment stretching longer than Jon Stewart’s run as host.
Part of the reason for his longevity of the show and that the collective rage and frustration is so consistently, hilariously pitch perfect and his first Back in Black on the Trevor Noah hosted Daily Show is no different.
The era of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is just now settling in as Trevor has gotten a few shows under his belt and the new correspondents are making themselves known.
Hailing from Australia, Ronny Chieng furthers, along with Trevor, The Daily Show’s great inclusion of comedians from outside of our borders.
Watch Ronny’s first piece on VR Technology/an insight into some inner demons here.