Meet Comedy Central's New Odd Couple
Tonight marks the premiere of Comedy Central's Idiotsitter, the creative love child of comedians Jillian Bell and Charlotte Newhouse, longtime writing partners and pals who met while performing with...
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Here Are Four Sundance Films the NRA Really Doesn't Want You to See
The hype machine singled out some clear, if tragic, winners from the lineup of this year's Sundance Film Festival. For instance, there was Other People, SNL writer Chris Kelly's heartfelt,...
View ArticleWatch Bernie Sanders React When Stephen Colbert Compares Him to Donald Trump
Grinning and upbeat from his recent landslide victory in the New Hampshire primary, Bernie Sanders appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday night to a cheering, feel-the-Bern crowd, but...
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Meet the Star of "Love," Judd Apatow's New Netflix Series
It sounds so familiar. Nice guy meets self-destructive girl. Guy falls for girl, who refuses to be loved. Yet, Love, the new Netflix dark comedy created and co-written by director Judd Apatow, comedian...
View ArticleSamantha Bee Skewers Lazy Democrats Who "Built" Donald Trump
On Monday night, late-night host Samantha Bee said Democrats should shoulder some of the blame for Donald Trump, the billionaire reality-show star who is likely to become the Republican Party's...
View ArticleHundreds of Children Allegedly Abused Over 40-Year Period in Pennsylvania...
After an exhaustive, two-year investigation, a statewide grand jury has determined that hundreds of children were sexually abused by priests and other religious leaders serving the Roman Catholic...
View ArticleThe Case Against the Sandy Hook Gunmakers Gets a Legal Lifeline
This morning, a Connecticut judgedenied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the manufacturers of the Bushmaster assault rifle by several families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre....
View ArticleSamantha Bee Answers All of Your Superdelegate Questions
As the race for the Democratic nod comes closer to an end, and the Hillary vs. Bernie showdown gets more fiery, each candidate is focused on getting the support of that one key demographic. No, not...
View ArticleWatch Amy Schumer Mock America's Gun Habit
Inside Amy SchumerComedy's It Girl is back again to mock the country's lax gun laws. In a sketch on last night's episode of Inside Amy Schumer, Schumer and her co-star play two hosts on a home shopping...
View ArticleWatch John Oliver Perfectly Describe the GOP's Dysfunctional Relationship...
With this year's presidential election, comedian John Oliver has little trouble finding material for his weekly half-hour roast of all things ridiculous in the political realm. On Sunday's episode of...
View ArticleSamantha Bee Explains the Ugly History that Led the Religious Right to...
In the words of Samantha Bee, former GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz "was grown in a vat to be the perfect evangelical candidate." So how did he lose evangelical support to a loud-mouthed New York...
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A Brief, Checkered History of Prom in America
Do you remember how you were asked to your high school prom? (Or how you asked?) Maybe it was some cheesy romantic gesture. Or maybe it was a very informal conversation that took place near your locker...
View ArticleThe Democratic Bill Even Ted Cruz and Rand Paul Support
On last night's episode of Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, the host took on sexual assault in the military, a serious problem that the Pentagon has only reluctantly acknowledged. Later this week, the...
View ArticleThe Ethical Dilemma of Gene Sequencing
Today's geneticists are able to edit the human genome in ways unforeseeable less than a decade ago. But with discoveries like CRISPR and Cas9 come new risks. The debate around embryonic intervention,...
View ArticleWatch Lin-Manuel Miranda and James Corden Pay Tribute To Orlando At The Tony...
The Tony Awards openedĀ on Sunday night in New York with a tribute from host James Corden to the victims of this morning's mass shooting in Orlando, now the deadliest in history."All around the world,...
View ArticleSamantha Bee Doesn't Want Your Prayers, Politicians
In the wake of the tragedy in Orlando, Samantha Bee opened Full Frontal Monday night without the usual music and applause. She began her show by saying that although protocol after a mass shooting is...
View ArticleThe US Could Have Its Very Own Brexit, Samantha Bee Warns
On Monday night's episode of Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, our host outlined some pretty scary parallels between the UK's Brexit vote and the United States' presidential election in November."While...
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Are Your Favorite Late-Night Shows Sexist?
The controversy over a recent Daily Show tweet and the departure of one of the show's rising comics has put a spotlight on how few women have roles on screen and behind the camera at television's top...
View ArticleComic Phoebe Robinson Is Tired of Being the Token Black Girl
Perhaps you know and love her from 2 Dope Queens, the comedy podcast she co-hosts every week with Jessica Williams of Daily Show fame. Perhaps you don't know her yet. But Phoebe Robinson is someone...
View ArticleSamantha Bee Is Tired of Double Standards
On last night's episode of Full Frontal, Samantha Bee tore into the double standard the nation's first female presidential nominee has endured compared with any other nominee, especially her opponent,...
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