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VICELAND Is Taking Another Crack at Having a Talk Show with Danny Brown and “Danny’s House”

July 15, 2019
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VICE and VICELAND are dead set on figuring this talk show/late night thing out.

They had Desus & Mero, now enjoying their time at Showtime, and then they tried a wild experiment of a two-hour, completely live variety talk show with four hosts called Vice Live. That was unfortunately very, very short lived.

Now, their latest take on talk show will come from rapper Danny Brown in something that seems more akin to The Eric Andre Show, but slightly more grounded (as it happens at “Danny’s House” and the guests seem to be more in on what’s happening).

That said, it still looks more crazy and different than most other things in the late night/talk show world (a thing we’re always game for). See for yourself in the trailer for Danny’s House. If you’re into it, you’ll want to catch the series premiere this week on Aug. 14th at VICELAND.

Viceland’s Grand Experiment in Late Night “VICE Live” Begins Tonight

February 26, 2019
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At 9PM EST/6PM PST tonight, Fat Tony, Sandy Honig, Zack Fox, and Marie Faustin will embark on launching VICE Live, the nightly, two-hour, late night variety talk show that will be done completely live (instead of live-to-tape). We’re as curious you if they pull it off and, more importantly, what they’re going to do fill two hours. every night (every other late night show is an hour with a few half-hour stragglers here and there).

Oh, you know that, as it is a 100% millennial driven show, you’ll be able to stream it too right here.

To go back to what they’re going to do, well, we’ll let the hosts speak for themselves in this promo.

Viceland Is Going All In with a Nightly, Two-Hour, Live Variety Show “Vice Live” Hosted by Marie Faustin, Sandy Honig, Zack Fox, and Fat Tony

January 17, 2019
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Viceland Is Going All In with a Nightly, Two-Hour, Live Variety Show “Vice Live” Hosted by Marie Faustin, Sandy Honig, Zack Fox, and Fat Tony

We don’t say this a lot here, but whoa.

Viceland is upping the ante a ton from pretty much every other late night show by having it be truly a unique variety show with the Vice touch, having four hosts (three of which are multi-hyphenate comedians and one that’s a hip hop artist), and going completely live (as opposed to live-to-tape, which all talk shows do these days). 

This is so incredibly ambitious. In fact, SNL, a live variety comedy show known for how incredibly hard it is to produce, only goes weekly and doesn’t put up two hours of show. What this will end up being or looking like is anybody’s guess (save for the talent’s and Vice execs’), but this might be the kind of shake-up to the incredibly rigid late night talk show format (that was perfected by Johnny Carson decades ago) that we’ve been desperately looking for. 

We will say that Vice’s last attempt at this, Desus & Mero, was a great shake-up as well and we can’t wait to see what they’ll end up doing at Showtime.

In any case, we’ve enjoyed much of the comedy of Marie Faustin, Sandy Honig, and Zack Fox when we’ve got to see them and we’re very, very intrigued to see what that trio along with hip-hop artist Fat Tony will be like on a nightly show. 

Desus & Mero Rip on Amazon’s New Amazon Key Service

October 27, 2017
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The way that Desus & Mero run their show on Viceland allows that to rip on trending topics and current issues in a more instinctual, organic way than most of the rest of late night. 

As a result, they often have more fun trashing things that deserved to be trashed like Amazon Key, the new service for Amazon Prime members that “allows in house delivery and services”. See for yourself here.

Desus & Mero on Joel Osteen and CNN Attempting to Interview Hurricane Harvey Victim

August 31, 2017
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There are so many overwhelming, almost incomprehensible things that are going on in the world right now that you might have not noticed that most of late night has taken a nice hiatus for a couple of weeks and consequently have not been able to comment on said happenings.

However, Desus & Mero at Viceland have been hard at work, calling out people who need some calling out. For Hurricane Harvey specifically, they riff on the Joel Osteen-reportedly-delaying-to-open-his-church-for-Hurricane-Harvey-victims debacle and a CNN interview that went far off course and included some f-bombs. 

By the way, if you haven’t found your way to enjoying Desus & Mero yet, now would probably be a good time to go down a YouTube rabbit hole to catch up with one of the best newcomers to late night.

Season 3 of The Chris Gethard Show, The Guest Book, and What Would Diplo Do? All Premiere Tonight

August 3, 2017
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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.

Viceland’s Docu-Series on Dissecting Comedy “Funny How?” Premieres Tonight

July 10, 2017
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One of the preeminent historians on comedy, Kliph Nestoroff, will kick off a journey down a rabbit hole of the craft of comedy for Viceland’s docu-series Funny How?. 

Here’s a clip from the show of Kliph explaining the early days of Christian stand-up comedy, in case you needed a bit of a reference point for how deep his comedy history knowledge goes.

Catch the premiere of Funny How? at 11:30PM tonight on Viceland.

What Would Diplo Do? Trailer Shows James Van Der Beek as a Horribly Impulsive Diplo

July 5, 2017
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Viceland’s newest scripted comedy takes a stab at satirizing the world of DJs in specific reference to DJ mogul Diplo. 

The trailer shows James Van Der Beek as Diplo, which is an intriguing new direction for Van Der Beek, as well as a crew surrounding him that includes Bobby Lee. 

While we’re feeling that there are bits of Entourage and Popstar, there seems to be a bit of self-awareness as well as sense of silly abandon that you’d get on the American version of The Office as well.

See for yourself here, then look for the series premiere on Thursday, August 3rd at Viceland.

Desus & Mero Are as Real as Can Be with Their For Your Consideration Emmy Video

June 23, 2017
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Desus & Mero do a FYC campaign like only Desus & Mero can.

Viceland Will Be Taking a Crack at Exploring How Comedy Works in Docu-Series “Funny How?”

June 22, 2017
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It’s an ever evolving mystery on exactly how comedy works and how comedians are able to synthesize their reality into something that will make a group of strangers laugh. 

Many series, documentaries, podcasts, movies, books, etc. have explored this topic and will continue to do so as comedy keeps changing.

The latest series to dissect the inner workings of comedy will be coming from Viceland and led by esteemed comedy/entertainment historian Kliph Nestoroff.

Called Funny How?, Kliph will watch comedians try working out their material and then talk shop with them about their process.

Here’s a trailer for the docu-series, which you can catch the premiere of on July 10th. 

Party Legends Has Returned for Season 2 and Is Somehow Even Crazier

June 20, 2017
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The Lance Bangs’ orchestrated animated storytelling series Party Legends has returned for its second round at Viceland and has managed, so far, to top itself.

How so?

Well, for starters, Duncan Trussell recounts how he got a dominatrix as part of grieving over the passing of his mother and its animated in an extremely trippy, 3-D style.  

See a teaser (that includes a bit of that story) for the new batch of Party Legends here, then catch it on Thursdays at 10PM on Viceland.

June 11, 2017
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The Viceland series, Party Legends, where some of the craziest party stories get the animated treatment as directed by the one and only Lance Bangs, is having a premiere screening tomorrow at Cinefamily coupled with a stand-up show with some of LA’s best. 

If you wanna go (and we have a feeling that you just might), just RSVP over here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

The World of Desus & Mero and Late Night with Seth Meyers Overlapped This Week

June 10, 2017
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Late Night with Seth Meyers represents a pretty traditional version of a late night talk show whereas Desus & Mero on Viceland throw out nearly every late night talk show convention that you could think of right out the window.

This week, the old and the new crossed path as Desus Nice and The Kid Mero came on Late Night as guests and talked shop about how much nicer Meyers’ set is, etc.

Watch the whole interview here.

Rob Huebel Goes Through the Ridiculous Story of How He Got Permanently Banned from Yankee Stadium

May 28, 2017
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As we’re finding out more and more these days, prank shows from over 10 years ago blurred the line in regards to breaking the law and what they ordered comedians to do for a prank.

Rob Huebel shared his story of how this happened to him and consequently got him permanently banned from Yankee Stadium on this week’s Desus & Mero. 

It’s just as funny as it is cringe-worthy through almost every beat of it.

Larry Wilmore Goes on Desus & Mero and Reveals the Inner Workings of Being a Black Host in Late Night

May 26, 2017
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From one former black late night host to two current black ones, Larry Wilmore went in-depth on coming up to being a black host of a late night show and all the highs and lows of it on Viceland’s late night show, Desus & Mero.   

Larry specifically talks about his WHCD speech, how having some haters is good, and paints a clear picture of how being black on TV has progressed in recent years. 

Also, there’s something kind of heartening about seeing Wilmore and Desus & Mero all together.

Watch it here.

Desus and Mero Are Taping in LA for the Week

April 18, 2017
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Desus and Mero Are Taping in LA for the Week

One of late night’s most exciting newcomers, Desus and Mero on Viceland, are spending the week here in LA to tape their show. 

They even did a fun evening in front of a standing room only crowd with Deadline last night.

They don’t do live audiences for taping their episodes, but, maybe, just maybe, you’ll catching doing a remote segment like this one where Mero “puts on a three point clinic” at the Venice courts.

April 10, 2017
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Desus & The Kid Mero of Viceland’s late night show Desus & Mero will indeed be spending an evening with Deadline for their AwardsLine live events series next Monday at 7:30PM the Landmark Theatres in West LA (10840 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA).

You can RSVP for tickets for the event here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Desus & Mero Try Doing a Segment at This Year’s Santa Con

December 24, 2016
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One of the rowdiest Christmas traditions around is Santa Con, which is much more innocent than it sounds. Several adults dress up as Santa and then, under the umbrella of ‘Santa Con’ get lit and try starting a party wherever they can, especially if a camera is watching.

Viceland’s Desus & Mero went down and tried to do a segment covering this year’s Santa Con. They knew what was coming, but still got more than they expected.

Here’s what happened.

Watch John Hodgman’s Take on the Verizon Guy’s Defecting to Sprint

December 22, 2016
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As pointed out by Desus & Mero on Viceland, John Hodgman is in a unique position to weigh in on being a longtime spokesman/character for a big brand, especially when it comes to Paul Marcarelli defecting from being a Verizon spokesman to one for Sprint.

Above all, you get to see John Hodgman, outside of his deranged millionaire character or being the PC in those Mac commercials, get heated about something. 

Watch it here.

Here Are All The 2016 Election Day Comedy Specials/Events on TV Tonight

November 8, 2016
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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. 

Sean Patton Was Paid $500 to Not Tell This Story on Viceland’s Party Legends

August 13, 2016
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Not only did the great Sean Patton have one hell of a night full of unexpected twists, turns, high, lows, and more in Baton Rouge, LA, but he was paid half a G to keep his mouth shut about the events that transpired. 

Well, years later, Sean has not only told the story, but he has done so on television that shared ‘round the globe on YouTube complete with animation of some of the crazier things that happened.

Watch what happened and what Sean is, so far, getting away with on the latest episode of Viceland’s PARTY LEGENDS.

TJ Miller Tried Dancing with Paris Hilton and “Party Legends” Animated the Whole Story

July 28, 2016
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One of Viceland’s latest series is Party Legends, which captures the stories of crazy parties from the sort of folks that would go to said crazy parties and gives them a great animation treatment. 

This particular story comes from a man who is sort of his own party, TJ Miller, and recounts his attempt at dancing with the one and only Paris Hilton.

Watch it here.

Watch Brent Weinbach Say He’s a Narc on “Flophouse”

April 11, 2016
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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.

Watch the First Episode of Viceland’s “Flophouse” That Showcases How Great House Comedy Shows Can Be

February 25, 2016
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Today, Vice’s new venture, Viceland, released its first batch of episodes for all of their new shows. Among them is Flophouse where renowned director Lance Bangs delves into the wondrous chaos that is a comedy show held in a house. 

The first episode is set in our backyard, specifically in Highland Park, at the house of Solomon Georgio, James Austin Johnson, and Eric Dadourian featuring performances from Solomon, Eric, James Adomian, Alice Wetterlund, Clare O’Kane, Brandon Wardell, and Curtis Cook as well as a complimentary rap battle w/Open Mike Eagle, a mattress in the middle of the floor, a bow and arrows, rain (for some reason) and more.

Watch it all really happen here.

Watch Trailer’s for Lance Bangs’ “Flophouse” Where He Explores the Comedy Underground

February 4, 2016
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Since time immemorial, comedians have often lived together in what many would considered cramped, messy, and raucous living situations. Comedians, for the most part, think it’s just fine. 

In this latest golden era of comedy, there’s a whole new excitement brewing in the underground and, with the aid of the Internet, it’s not quite as underground (i.e. no one has ever heard of it) as it used to be.

Lance Bangs explores this subculture that’s bridging its way to the big time, though, on its own terms, in his Viceland series Flophouse. Specifically, he goes through these comedian ‘flophouses’ and then sees them all put on a live show on a rooftop, in a back yard, in a garage, etc. 

Here’s a trailer for Flophouse in case you’re curious as to what this all looks like and haven’t gotten the luck to go to a house comedy show.

By the way, featured in the trailer are:
Kate Willett, Clare O’Kane, Solomon Georgio, Amy Miller, Brent Weinbach, Brandon Wardell, Eric Dadourian, Dave Stone, Maria Bamford, James Adomian, Sean Patton, James Austin Johnson, David Gborie, Steve Agee, and much more.

Look for Flophouse to come to Vice’s new Viceland on Feb. 29th.

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