June 29, 2015

Stephen Colbert Does No Handed Push Ups for the Troops

Stephen Colbert supports three things-- the troops, veterans, and lumber. To show his support, he put out a video today doing 20 pushups for the 101st Airborn, several of them using no hands. He says John Oliver challenged him to complete the task,and he now challenges fellow late night hosts James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel and either Karl Lagerfeld or the pope.
June 29, 2015

John Oliver Makes the Shortest Videos Possible to Celebrate Leap Second

John Oliver is going to finally take us all the way to the end of the micro-video trend. Forget 20 minute videos, those went out years ago. Forget the instagram 15 second video, or the vine six second video. John Oliver has invented the one second video in celebration of the leap second.
June 15, 2015

John Oliver And Jack Warner Are Officially In A Feud

After disgraced FIFA executive Jack Warner threatened to leak incriminating documents in a paid special, John Oliver paid for his own message on Trinidad's TV6 last week to plead for their release. Warner responded in another video, claiming TV6 disgraced their own people and dismissing Oliver as a "comedian fool," all while a dramatic score drowned him out.
June 15, 2015

Mike Birbiglia is Really Busy, Jimmy Carr in NYC and News From Michael Che, Jay Pharoah and More

Jeffrey Gurian is a writer and comedian in New York who loves to Jump Around. Follow his regular column, right here, to find out what’s happening in comedy, and who Jeffrey Gurian ran into this week in and around New York. This week, Jeffrey visited Gotham, The Cellar, The PIT and UCB.
June 1, 2015

John Oliver Will Do Anything To Get Rid of FIFA Chief Sepp Blatter

John Oliver loves the World Cup, but he hates FIFA, calling them a "comically grotesque organization." Looking closely at the workings of FIFA is much like someone who loves sausage having to see how its actually made-- its not pretty. So last night on Last Week Tonight, Oliver gave us all a closer look at the inner workings of FIFA.
June 1, 2015

Amy Schumer Wins Awards on Two Coasts Last Night, and a Stage Kiss From Tina Fey

Last night on the East Coast, while the Peabody Awards were being handed out at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan, the Broadcast TV Journalists Association gave out the Critics Choice Television awards in Beverly Hills. In the fifth annual event, the CCTA show was broadcast live on A&E last night from the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Amy Schumer took home awards in both ceremonies.