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Jimmy Kimmel Live! is packing its bags in a couple of weeks. ABC’s late-night talker will head east to Brooklyn for a week of shows starting October 21. The starry lineup of guests will include Eddie Murphy, Bruce Springsteen, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Alicia Keys, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Ripa, Ellie Kemper and John…

John Oliver helpfully provided his corporate overlords with a slogan for one of their big new ventures: “HBO Max: It’s Not HBO. It’s Just TV.” The joke – aimed specifically at HBO’s upcoming streaming service that will include, in addition to original programming, classic TV fare, or as the host of HBO’s Last Week Toni…

The borscht has really hit the fan for Rudy Giuliani with the widening scrutiny of the Trump administration’s alleged political dirt-digging excavations in Ukraine. Trump critics have been trying to make a figurative federal case out of the whole affair but now (after the arrest and indictment of two Giuliani cronies)…

Kenan Thompson, who is in his 17th season as a performer on Saturday Night Live, covered a wide range of show lore in a 90-minute appearance Sunday at the New Yorker Festival. The firing of debut cast member Shane Gillis in September before his first episode and after racist jokes and comments surfaced online…

"The once friendly neighborhood of Sesame Street has now become a haven of crime and corruption," declares Guy Smiley of ABCDEF News in a Saturday Night Live video short tonight that may become as well known for its soiled wit as much as Joker has become recognized for its prolonged Martin Scorsese homage. With this…

Acerbic firebrand talk show host Howard Stern rarely visits the West Coast, seldom stays up past 8 p.m., hardly ever agrees to do other talk shows, and barely contains his competitive nature, so it was startling on Friday night to hear Bill Maher (an equally acerbic firebrand talk show host) introducing “the King of…

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert was “Doin’ It Donkey Style” tonight, focusing on the Oct. 15 Democratic presidential debate in Westerville, Ohio. Colbert ran down the list of candidates who qualified, including Bernie Sanders, fresh off a heart attack and ready to take on the challenge, “But just to be safe, they…

Stephen Colbert said he wasn’t “telling tales out of school” when he says President Donald Trump is in “double trouble,” thanks to his controversial phone calls with Ukraine and Turkey. The Ukraine call asking for an investigation into the Joe Biden family, and the one with Turkey that Colbert claims “sold out our…

On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver continued to take us on this journey of what he named last week: “Stupid Watergate II: The Stupidest Watergate”. As Oliver updated us with this week’s installment of Donald Trump’s saga surrounding his Ukraine scandal and the impeachment inquiry against him he said of this sequel: it…

For a second consecutive week, Saturday Night Live regular Pete Davidson was not on tonight’s episode, which was hosted by Fleabag Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge with Taylor Swift as musical guest. Davidson is currently filming Warner Bros’ Suicide Squad 2, and had already missed last week’s season opener. Call it a…

UPDATED with video: Matthew Broderick stopped by Saturday Night Live this weekend with a warning for the Trump administration — the impeachment inquiry could get “really bad.” Broderick turned in a performance as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who crashed a meeting of President Donald Trump’s top advisers about the…

Don’t expect Bob Iger to change his mind about not running for the U.S. presidency, unless maybe Jimmy Kimmel joins Oprah Winfrey is campaigning door to door for the Disney CEO. As for the possibility of removing Donald Trump’s animatronic doppelgänger from Walt Disney World’s Hall of Presidents should the real thing…