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Aubrey Plaza’s droll sense of humor helped cut the sometimes-twee sensibilities of Parks And Recreation, and she’s gone further afield as the gonzo sorta-antagonist of Legion and in dark comedies like Ingrid Goes West. As the above montage demonstrates, there’s nowhere she’s more at home than in the anodyne setting of…

Showing a little intra-lowlife solidarity tonight, the hosts of three major late-night talk shows eschewed network affiliations to team up for a bit taking aim at Donald Trump, who devoted time during a recent rally—as is his shambling wont—to critiquing their performances in a variety of insulting terms. Hence, then,…

In the current stable of late-night hosts, no one has been in the game longer than Conan O’Brien. That feels weird to say because, once upon a time, he was the sweaty, wide-eyed rookie in a field of veteran showmen. But after 25 years behind the desk at Late Night, The Tonight Show, and Conan on TBS—which will soon…

Anyone familiar with Andy Daly’s singularly impressive body of work knows there’s no one better at portraying outwardly chipper everymen whose beaming geniality barely conceals an existential cistern teeming with all manner of squirming, submerged frustrations, insecurities, and outright madness. From his cavalcade of…

Early last year, we reported on a rumor that Conan O’Brien’s Conan show on TBS was considering a move to a weekly format instead of airing every night. TBS denied the story, and Conan remained a nightly show, but now it is getting a change to its format. As announced in a press release, Conan will switch to a new…

Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump impression isn’t particularly funny and hasn’t been for a while, but part of the reason Saturday Night Live dumps Baldwin in orange paint every week is because it drives the real Trump crazy—which, to be fair, is a little funny. Apparently, though, Trump’s predecessors in the White House…

At this point in his impressively varied career, Timothy Olyphant just isn’t content with the standard late-night talk show chit-chat. Last week, the Santa Clarita Diet star spent much of his Late Night With Seth Meyers interview taking issue with Meyers’ introduction, and grilling the host about the nature of their…

Conan O’Brien seems happiest these days when he’s filming one of the travel episodes of his late-night talk show, and it’s easy to see why. A few times a year, he gets to spend a week in a foreign location, experiencing new cultures, and riffing on anything and everything that comes into view. Most recently,…

Sure, perhaps the storied NBA rivalry between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers isn’t all it used to be back when James Worthy, Kevin McHale, Michael Cooper, Dennis Johnson, Kareem and the Chief were chucking elbows and sweating it out in the old, completely un-air-conditioned Boston Garden. But that doesn’t…

Despite his intimidating physique—dude’s 6'4"—Conan O’Brien’s late-night career doesn’t leave much time for his obvious second calling, the world of high-profile action movie stunts. But—as O’Brien knows better than most—there’s no true job security in the talk show game, which might explain why this clip from his TBS…

Comedic life partners and Broadway stars Nick Kroll and John Mulaney haven’t let their collective and individual show biz successes go to their heads in their fifteen years of friendship. Or, wait, the opposite of that. At least that’s the comic conceit the pair brought to their monday appearance on Conan. There to…

American cartoons were birthed in the crucible of short attention spans, and despite periodic exceptions, they’ve pretty much remained in that particular segment of the animation world. Turn on any contemporary animated series in the U.S., and you’ll see the ongoing influence of Tex Avery, Walt Disney, and others in…

Decent citizens shrugged despairingly upon hearing that President Donald Trump used the word “shitholes” (or was it “shithouses”?) to describe Haiti and a number of African countries, already envisioning the justifiable fury, administration denials, and lack of any and all consequence that would follow. Late show…

On Thursday, that big piece of shit running this country offered yet another reminder that he’s a big-time racist when he complained about immigrants coming to America from “shithole countries” like Haiti, El Salvador, and various places in Africa. Now, in an attempt to prove just how wrong and stupid Trump is, Conan…

Andy Richter is best known for being the long-running late-night sidekick on Conan O’Brien’s talk shows. A number of notable celebrities have come through Conan’s doors during Richter’s tenure, and in the video above, Richter tells us five of his favorite Conan guests and what makes for a great appearance.

The night after the day of the (current) worst mass shooting in American history is a tough fucking room if you’re doing a late-night comedy show. Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, Seth Meyers on Late Night, and the hosts of The Late Late Show With James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and …