November 3, 2014
Lowes is bringing robot employees to their stores this year and John Oliver gets some help from H. Jon Benjamin, Nick Offerman and Sarah Baker to explain why this is a terrible idea.
November 2, 2014
This week the New York Comedy Festival takes over a long list of New York City theaters and clubs. With well over 100 shows to choose from over the course of 5 days, you might be looking for some help deciding which events to attend.
October 27, 2014
It's the best rant on sugar since Homer Simpsons first put forth his philosophy on greater power through sugar control.
October 27, 2014
The New York Comedy Festival is coming to town and New York is ready, planning FIVE spectacular days, over ONE HUNDRED shows, nearly TWO HUNDRED performers. Stay tuned for our Editors Picks and more names to be added as the New York Comedy Festival approaches.
October 20, 2014
John Oliver puts his always excellent spin on the news this week with a story on the Supreme Court. Why can't we watch arguments at the Supreme Court on tv? We get audio, but with nothing to watch, we get bored. Oliver has some amazing suggestions to make Supreme Court audio more interesting to listen to.
October 20, 2014
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. In today’s column, find out where Jerry Seinfeld did a surprise set, what Andy Kaufman's brother thinks about Bob Zmuda's new book, who was at Nate Bargatze's Comedy Central taping and Lisa Lampanelli's ephiphany! Visit Jeffrey’s website at comedymatterstv.com, where you can watch his interviews with everyone in comedy who matters!
October 15, 2014
In a move that could change broadcasting, HBO announced today that they be the first major network to offer stand-alone streaming service in 2015. This is the next step in the move to cutting the cable cord, as previously you had to be a cable or fios subscriber to use the popular HBO streaming service, HBO Go.
October 13, 2014
Why does the flavor 'pumpkin spice' grow like the Stay Puft marshmallow man becoming more pervasive every year?
October 13, 2014
John Oliver likes to take old traditions that no longer make sense and ask "How is that still a thing?" on his show Last Week, Tonight.
October 7, 2014
Today Nerdist.com debuted Sara Schaefer's new podcast, LIES. Sara's first guest, Jim Gaffigan, did plenty of lying in the thirteen minute episode complete with lying callers.
October 6, 2014
Last night, Last Week Tonight's John Oliver took a hilarious look at the very real issue of civil forfeiture in the US.
October 2, 2014
Bob Geldof once asked us, “Where is the filtered excellence!?” It’s right here. Here are this weeks picks of the best things to watch, the most interesting […]