By Meredith Blake source It’s a few minutes after 6 p.m. on Thursday night, and as Donald Trump prepares to accept his nomination at the Republican National Convention, a weary-looking Stephen Colbert is rehearsing a few hundred miles away at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Dressed in rumpled khakis and nursing a massive Starbucks coffee, the host runs […]
By Marisa Guthrie source Late-night’s onetime king of political satire rebounds at the conventions (with an assist from Jon Stewart) as he gets comfortable (finally!) revealing his best character — himself — amid criticism and job rumors: “I’m a human being. Yeah, I care.”
By Connie Guglielmo Source Olivia Munn plays first-person shooter games, loves her smart home and says she’ll be the first to invest in flying hoverboards. But don’t call the actress, who grew up tinkering with PCs, a nerd or a geek. “Before, we had to learn how to type on the computer without looking at […]
By Jason Lynch Source If you’re lamenting Jon Stewart’s departure from The Daily Show last August and wishing he was still a presence in late night, your wish has come true. In the end, Stewart’s late-night hiatus didn’t even last a month. The former host has been an important force on The Late Show With […]
By David Marchese Source With Last Week Tonight, John Oliver has found himself in the curious, and enviable, position of hosting a satirical news show that frequently makes news. Whether it’s by setting up a fake church to show the flimsiness of religious tax exemptions, urging viewers to overload the FCC website’s servers with angry comments as a way […]
By Jason Lynch Source CBS should have no problem drawing at least 110 million viewers to its Super Bowl 50 broadcast on Feb. 7, but the network has even grander ambitions for what could turn out to be a record-breaking audience. For the first time, the network has given over its coveted post-Super Bowl slot […]
By Jen Yamato Source The former ‘Daily Show’ correspondent and ‘Newsroom’ star dishes on her new film ‘Ride Along 2,’ upcoming role as Psylocke in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse,’ and much more.
By Tammy La Gorce Source Tracey Stewart is finally getting her sheep. “When I first started dating Jon, I would get bothered by people coming up to us as we were living our lives and wanting to talk to him,” she said of her husband, Jon Stewart, the former host of “The Daily Show.” “But […]
By Rebecca Fishbein Source It’s been about a year since comedian Hasan Minhaj joined the Daily Show’s team of correspondents—since then, he’s skewered everything from discrimination of Muslim Americans to gestation crates to #PopeMania. Now, he’s got a new show, Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King, which centers on his experience growing up as first generation Indian […]
By Dave Itzkoff Source On a recent Monday night, Stephen Colbert was about as high atop the Ed Sullivan Theater as one can be, looking out over the 200 or so employees of his CBS “Late Show” who had gathered for a roof party as he stood on a staircase with a megaphone in hand.
