Tag: Comedy Central

Most comedians have given President Barack Obama a comedy pass for five-plus years. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele go far beyond that. The stars of the hit Comedy Central show Key & Peele actively defend Obama from criticism, using their

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2 (UPI)–U.S. comedian Roseanne Barr vowed on Twitter to never work in television again. Barr, 61, starred on the classic sitcom “Roseanne” (1988-97), then served as host of “The Roseanne Show” chat program from 1998 to 2000,

In the month of October, two cable channels that cater almost exclusively to young people lost viewers by double digits. Comedy Central’s primetime audience dropped 19%,  MTV’s 32%. In average daily viewership, Comedy Central is down 10%, MTV 18% There

By FRAZIER MOOREAP Television WriterNEW YORKIt was 30 years ago when he last filmed a concert special. Now he’s gone and done it again. “Bill Cosby: Far From Finished” finds this king of comedy onstage in Cerritos, Calif., where he

Jon Stewart routinely dodges his network’s rules against obscenity by letting Comedy Central censors beep every curse word out of his mouth. Bill Cosby curbed Stewart’s potty mouth Tuesday night all by himself. The venerable comic, known for his squeaky

Most political comedians would be thrilled if the mainstream media gave extra weight to their punch lines. Not Jon Stewart, at least not when The Daily Show host is hammering President Barack Obama’s “signature,” “historic” health care reform. Stewart has

Comedy Central’s South Park often tackles topics few other comic outlets dare touch. Wednesday, the show hammered ObamaCare after both Saturday Night Live and late night comics had their way with the law’s beleaguered web site. Only South Park could

Take half an hour and enjoy this three-part interview, via RealClearPolitics and Comedy Central, of Charles Krauthammer by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. Krauthammer was promoting his new book, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics–but

Even The Daily Show host Jon Stewart couldn’t sit back and let the botched rollout of Obamacare go unnoticed. On Monday’s edition of the liberal Comedy Central show, Stewart scorched the official Obamacare web site, a debacle of such epic

OMG! I guess it had to happen. Comedy Central reported that although seventeen years had transpired without any tardiness, the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, failed to hit their episode deadline.  The new episode, “Goth Kids

Conservatives applaud Comedy Central’s South Park for daring to mock both the left and the right. This week, it was the left’s turn to see some of its favorite targets shredded by those foul-mouthed pre-teens. This week’s new episode gave

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart spent last week mocking the GOP for opposing Obamacare, ignoring legitimate concerns Republicans raised about both the health care legislation itself and its bungled launch. Turns out the funny man did hear the GOP’s complaints. Stewart

Adam Carolla is quick to defend Alec Baldwin whenever the combustible star is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. The two share a friendship of sorts. Baldwin has appeared on Carolla’s podcast, and Carolla says the two have

Any show lucky enough to reach its 17th season can’t expect big ratings. Tell that to the folks behind South Park. The animated Comedy Central show snared its best ratings in years this week with Wednesday’s season 17 premiere. The

Stephen Colbert is a funny man, and he’s got the Emmys to prove it. The comedian’s Colbert Report won big at Sunday’s Emmys Awards for his Comedy Central faux news show, but he’s equally funny in thinking audiences don’t know

Comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have an advantage over their peers when it comes to political humor. The sketch performers are comedians of color, allowing them to satirize President Barack Obama without being accused of being racially insensitive. The duo ignored that advantage

Travon Free, a writer for the liberal Comedy Central program The Daily Show, decided to up the racist anger regarding the George Zimmerman acquittal via social media. Free sent out a tweet featuring what he said was the jury who

I’ve known Allen Guelzo for seven years since I first pressed him into service as one of my on-camera historians in “Lincoln and Lee at Antietam” in 2005. Back then he was underexposed as far as television appearances went.  In

The Daily Show may have a new host, but the Comedy Central mainstay isn’t letting go of the National Security Agency spy imbroglio. John Oliver, the British comedian keeping Jon Stewart’s seat warm for the summer, jumped into matters on

Comedy Central host Jon Stewart has been relentless in attacking President Barack Obama for the various scandals currently engulfing the White House. The Daily Show host is a committed liberal, but he’s been honest enough to comically savage his own

This week’s gathering of the nation’s former and current president at the George W. Bush Presidential Library opening gave Americans the chance to see a truly bipartisan moment in politics. No rancor, just smiles–and a mutual understanding of how difficult

Country crooner Brad Paisley teamed up with rapper LL Cool J for a song called Accidental Racist, a heartfelt if clunky song trying to bring the races together. Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert must have reacted to the song like a

Shock comic Sarah Silverman takes aim anew at people of faith via Twitter this week. Silverman, star of a short-lived Comedy Central sitcom, fired off a series of faith-unfriendly tweets in recent days culminating with this broadside against anyone who

Comedy Central star Jon Stewart got on the right side of the free speech debate this week as he mocked Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood for trying to silence a fellow political satirist. Stewart could have acted sooner had he listened to