Sure, it might be the 10th anniversary of superhero movie benchmark The Dark Knight, but the DC movie universe isn’t exactly the place to be these days. That’s the conceit of the star-studded skit from last night’s kickoff of Conan’s annual trip to Comic-Con, anyway, as Conan O’Brien’s Caped Crusader glumly sidles up…

Late Night With Seth Meyers writer and regular onscreen delight Amber Ruffin has a few funny recurring bits where she routinely makes her New Hampshire-raised boss comically uncomfortable. Alongside fellow writer Jenny Hegel, Ruffin gleefully pokes at Meyers’ white privilege in “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell,” and, in…

Hey, remember how everyone on the internet with an eagle in their Twitter avatar made fun of you for suggesting that Donald Trump was acting like a Russian sleeper agent? Yeah, those particular treasonous goalposts were irrevocably moved this weekend, as the—let’s still call him “president,” for tradition’s sake—met…

Two minutes into Noble Ape, Jim Gaffigan’s sixth comedy special, the comic addresses the elephant in the room—and immediately makes it do a little dance. “In April, it was discovered that my wife had a brain tumor. I’m not even making this up,” Gaffigan begins. “It was removed, she’s great, everything’s good.” It’s a…

Anyone in the know knows that Late Show host Stephen Colbert is arguably the biggest Lord Of The Rings fan in this or any other Earth. Naturally, such an argument would take place in the original Sindarian, even though Colbert admitted to last night’s guest Liv Tyler that his mastery of the elvish tongue is a little…

Attempting to pin his guest, former wrestler an current international move idol Dwayne Johnson, concerning the long-gestating rumors of his political aspirations, Stephen Colbert asked point-blank, “Do you actually take that possibility seriously.” “I absolutely do,” replied the former The Rock, once again raising the…

Bobcat Goldthwait started out as a sweat-drenched, yowling standup comic, but he’s forged a legitimately impressive second career as a writer-director of thoughtfully provocative, darkly comic indie films (with the occasional Bigfoot flick thrown in). It’s not that surprising, really—Goldthwait’s standup was always a…

It’s been a long week without TV comedians lobbing brickbats at the daily conveyor belt of Trump administration targets, as literally every late-night host took the July 4 holiday as a patriotic excuse to refresh, and reload. Stephen Colbert had plenty of bad news from our long national nightmare to catch up on in his…

John Oliver took a nice, relaxing detour away from the weekly grind of comically chronicling the walking genetic nightmare that is the Trump family to have some fun with pig-Hitler. And, no, that wasn’t the new, in-retrospect ill-advised hashtag Last Week Tonight unveiled to really stick it to that Trump guy, but an…

After a season of faux Fox News assholery in the name of satire, Jordan Klepper closed down The Opposition for good on Thursday’s series finale. Or, rather, as Klepper’s peerlessly self-deluding, rabidly “us vs. them” pundit declared defiantly, “The ‘thems’ at Viacom are crudely attempting to silence my First…

Hey, the country’s on fire, so that’s fun. After spending his monologue doing the tougher than usual nightly duty of wringing laughs out of the truly hateful, racist, and all-around depressing-to-humans-with-souls news emanating from the Trump administration, Stephen Colbert looked like he could use a little…

At a time when, as Jimmy Fallon noted during his Monday monologue, the leader of the free world should probably have his mind on more pressing matters, Donald Trump has spent a whole lot of time lobbing childish insults at people who make jokes about him. On Tuesday’s Late Show, it was Stephen Colbert’s turn to make…

With his clipped, staccato delivery and ready roster of anti-Trump sound bites, former White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush and current Democratic candidate for the Minnesota senate seat occupied by Tina Smith Richard Painter resembles nothing so much as the inevitable Saturday Night Live caricature of…

On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver only spent a few minutes at the top talking about the never-ending racist clownshow that is the Trump administration (where “putting children in fucking cages” is yet another over-the-top evil milestone reached), to talk about Mexico. You know, America’s neighbor, trading…

Calling stoner giggle-bear Seth Rogen “an avatar of ‘what’s the big deal?,’” Stephen Colbert congratulated first guest and Canadian ambassador of garrulous good will Seth Rogen on his home country’s recent decision to legalize recreational marijuana on Friday’s Late Show. “Now that marijuana’s legalized, is your work…

Introducing his Thursday interviewee (or “opponent,” as his ironic blowhard calls them), Jordan Klepper mentioned that all the proceeds from comedian Cameron Esposito’s new standup special are going to charity. “Comedy doing good in the world?,” Klepper’s pompous pundit asked incredulously, “I just don’t see it.” But,…

Saturday Night Live star, standup, and, as he confirmed on Wednesday’s Tonight Show, Arianna Grande’s forever “plus-one,” Pete Davidson brought the traditional late-night movie clip to promote. Except the first clip he brought wasn’t for the new Netflix comedy Set It Up (which Davidson claimed he’s in for “like, ten…

With his granite face and signature drill sergeant haircut, Josh Brolin has the market cornered at this point in his career (he’s 50, somehow) on grim-voiced, badass action types. Stephen Colbert noted that calling this “the summer of Brolin” wouldn’t be out of line, considering the actor’s villainous, anti-heroic,…

Hey, we’re putting children in cages now. Well, not “we,” as in those Americans with even a tattered scrap of human soul, but the Trump administration. You know, like Secretary Of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who stared blankly ahead at a White House press conference as reporters from ProPublica played tapes…