With Jordan Peele’s wildly anticipated Get Out follow-up Us finally coming out this week, the film’s director and cast were in full-court late-night press mode on Monday. Star Winston Duke was charming as ever on Late Night With Seth Meyers, explaining how Peele’s directive to make his “dad bod” co-lead look as…

On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver spent most of the show examining the phenomenon of public shaming. You know, that thing where millions of people around the world take turns dogpiling someone they don’t know but have very definite opinions about thanks to an often-misunderstood misdeed. (He showed talk show…

“Are you ready to turn this thing that you like into something that will consume every waking minute?”

When not itself mercilessly killing off beloved, inclusive TV series with devoted fan bases, Netflix loves it some serial killers, the sexier the better. That’s Stephen Colbert’s contention, anyway, as he introduced a segment on Friday’s Late Show by recommending the streaming giant’s new show about serial killer of…

Comedian and actor Moses Storm (Unfriended, the latest Arrested Development, that guy named Squirrel on This Is Us) is a big Conan O’Brien fan. Apart from getting to work with his idol (he was on O’Brien’s recent hiatus stand-up tour with Ron Funches, Flula Borg, and Laurie Kilmartin), Storm also got to sit down with…

Last time everyone’s favorite Hulk Mark Ruffalo did press for an Avengers movie, well, it didn’t go well. At least not for the Watchers at Marvel, who themselves hulked out a bit when Ruffalo, alongside the more locked-down Don Cheadle, endearingly blurted out the final fate of half the universe in Avengers: Infinity…

John Turturro co-stars with Julianne Moore in the new late-life sort-of romance Gloria Bell, where their divorcées overcome their post-breakup wariness with some impressively intimate disco dance moves. As Colbert noted with the help of a handy montage, we’ve been watching the prolific, Emmy-winning…

Seth Meyers told guest Paula Pell that, when the two were writing together on Saturday Night Live, everyone in the writers room knew she’d “be the funniest person on Earth.” And while Pell’s skills behind the camera are well-known to comedy nerds everywhere, the current A.P. Bio scene-stealer has also popped up in…

For all his trenchant, Emmy-winning political satire, Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver delights most in coming up with inventive ways to fuck with all the right people. Using the power of his and his writers’ imagination—and HBO’s cash—to do some cheeky and creative good in the world clearly makes Oliver, and us, very…

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On last night’s Idris Elba-hosted Saturday Night Live, the first sketch after Elba’s monologue was a game show, which might not exactly suggest the episode was reaching for new comic territory. (Just a thought, try a season with no game show, talk show, or reality show parodies. See what pops up.) Anyway, Elba joined…

“I’m not an actor, I’m a [movie, TV, DJ, all-around big bright shining] star!”

Stephen Colbert engaged in a little CBS programming synergy on Thursday’s Late Show, inviting CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King on to publicize her now-infamous interview with embattled singer and multiply accused pedophile R. Kelly. With the widely shared photo (snapped by King’s makeup guy) of Kelly, mid-rant,…

Just who is the worst family in America these days? Wait, wait, hear Samantha Bee out here before you ring in. For while one clan is currently destroying America for no other reason than to line their silken, sweatshop-made pockets, the other is the Trumps. No, but seriously folks, Bee took the time on Thursday’s…

So have you heard about this throne-games show? Seems like a pretty big deal. At least that’s the sense you’d get during Tuesday’s Late Show anyway, as Kit Harington came out to what Stephen Colbert described as unusual squeals of Beatles-esque delight from his audience. For the unassuming Harington, it was all in…

In the 11-person ranks of the ridiculously prolific and influential comedy troupe The State, it’s tough to say just who has killed it the most. From their fecund minds have come cultural comedy touchstones like Wet Hot American Summer (film and series), Reno 911 (series and film), Stella, the Risk podcast, Burning…

The enduring entertainment value (and just plain value) of the Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight is host John Oliver’s surgically bombastic method of turning even the driest-seeming subject into a searingly thought-provoking, meticulously researched, and yet utterly, laugh-out-loud hilarious half-hour of television. Take…

“Like a mirror, you see everything but understand nothing.”

In his just-as-impressive second Saturday Night Live hosting stint last night, former SNL writer and current musical theater parodist extraordinaire John Mulaney had plenty to live up to. His previous outing was easily the best episode of last season, sure, but it was “Diner Lobster” that was casting the biggest,…

“Now that’s its own American gender nightmare that we don’t have time to get into.”