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The Best Moments from John Oliver's First Week as 'Daily Show' Host

by | June 14th, 2013

John Oliver has successfully made it through his first week as summer guest host of The Daily Show while Jon Stewart is off directing his first movie, Rosewater. In his first run of shows, which was mainly devoted to covering the NSA surveillance scandal, Oliver has proven to be a natural fit to the program and has made a graceful transition to the anchor's chair that has seen him match Jon Stewart's ratings on the premiere and score just as many laughs with the studio audience as Stewart usually does. Oliver hasn't made any significant changes to The Daily Show since temporarily taking over, but he's proven adept as [...]

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The Best of Tobias Fünke's "Insert Me Anywhere" Campaign

by | May 20th, 2013

Last week, Netflix put out a new website called InsertMeAnywhere.biz, in which Arrested Development's Tobias Fünke played around in front of a green screen in various costumes, hoping that fans would use the footage to edit him into a lot of classic movies and shows. Well, it's been a week and the internet responded. Above is one of the best ones from the staff at video game company Capcom, who edited Tobias into a bunch of Capcom games, but needless to say, there are a ton more of these videos. Check out the best ones below, including Tobias in The Matrix, Breaking Bad, and, of course, Brokeback Mountain.

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The 47 Greatest, Most Hilarious Moments in 'The Office'

by | May 14th, 2013

In 2003, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's original and groundbreaking The Office concluded, ready to be duplicated by other countries, ready for all discerning snobs and television critics to denounce as inferior and as affronts to humanity. Two years later, we met Michael and Jim and Pam and Dwight and Ryan for a six-episode season. The American Office with the inexplicably good reviews got a renewal. Steve Carell was in 40 Year Old Virgin over the summer. We then met Phyllis and Stanley and Creed and Kelly and Darryl and Toby and heard that this show shoots way more material than they can ever fit to air. We watched [...]

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'The Daily Show' Correspondents Will Explain the Amendments to You

by | October 23rd, 2012

Getting a little rusty on your Constitutional Amendments? Well, The Daily Show correspondents are stepping in to kick that problem to the curb. The whole news team (aka "The Best Fucking News Team Ever) have teamed up to make this series of online videos, telling you everything you need to know about the Amendments. Here's the group explaining the right to bear arms (2nd Amendment) that should scare you into watching the rest of their videos, which are embedded below.

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A Video Guide to The Lonely Island’s Pre-'SNL' Years

by | August 22nd, 2012

To someone who wasn’t paying attention to web comedy in the early 2000s (and before YouTube and Funny or Die, who could blame you?), it may seem like The Lonely Island, the comedy conglomerate made up of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone, came out of nowhere when they were snatched up by Saturday Night Live in 2005. Despite the trio’s seemingly-fast rise to fame, they were far from an overnight success.

Samberg, Schaffer, and Taccone all met while attending junior high together in Berkeley, California in the late 80s. Samberg was a year younger than Schaffer and Taccone, but the three soon became a part of [...]

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For Adam Scott: 10 More Potential 'Greatest Events In Television History'

by | June 7th, 2013

Last night, The Greatest Event in Television History returned with its second installment, possibly to rectify the earlier mistake of accidentally airing the second greatest event in television history last October. Back then, after a ten minute behind-the-scenes feature hosted by Jeff Probst, Adam Scott and Jon Hamm starred in a shot-for-shot remake of the opening credit sequence to the the eighties detective series Simon & Simon. This time around, Scott and Amy Poehler tried to perfectly reenact the beginning to the rich couple playing "amateur detective" 1979-1984 series Hart to Hart1.

Because co-executive producer, co-star, co-writer and co-director Adam Scott is a busy man, and [...]

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Videolist: Fred Armisen's Best 'SNL' Sketches

by | May 16th, 2013

Fred Armisen's departure from Saturday Night Live was announced today, and though the news came somewhat expectedly after Bill Hader's announcement on Tuesday, it's still sad to see one of SNL's strangest and most absurdity-driven players move on from the show. In the spirit of Fred's departure after eleven seasons, we've collected some of his most memorable characters and sketches, from the rambling Update frequenter Nicholas Fehn to his impressions of Liberace, Penny Marshall, Prince, and more.

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Highlights from Justin Timberlake's Week on Jimmy Fallon

by | March 18th, 2013

Justin Timberlake followed up his fifth time hosting SNL last weekend by spending the entire week as a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In the above video, Timberlake and Fallon reminisce about some of the week's highlights, and we've collected all the best clips from Timberlake's week on Late Night in case you missed them:

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The Best of Late Night's Responses to the Presidential Debate

by | October 18th, 2012

America's late night shows took on Tuesday's presidential debate this week, all of them going about it in their own unique way. Here's Jon Stewart laying into Mitt Romney over his contraception stance and his "binders full of women" remark, as well as complimenting Barack Obama (who's appearing on The Daily Show tonight!) for actually deciding to attend this debate.

Check out some more highlights from late night's coverage of the second debate after the jump:

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23 Actually Funny Web Videos About Sex, Boobs, Dicks, Etc.

by | August 10th, 2012

Sex is a thing people generally like, like a lot, so videos about said sex tend to get a lot of traffic. Because they're non-stop fountains of clicks, people make a lot of sex-related sketch videos. The problem is most of them are SUPER unfunny. It's not inherently unfunny topic; it's just that it's an arena that attracts the lowest common denominator. The worst of them are like beer commercials but worse and more rapey. The best of them, however, are genuinely very funny. They tap into the absurdity that is a mating ritual not too dissimilar to that of monkeys. And monkeys are funny. Here are 23 that [...]

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A Video Guide to Nathan Fielder's Pre-Comedy Central Years

by | June 3rd, 2013

For fans of Nathan Fielder's new Comedy Central show, Nathan For You, or his hilarious Twitter experiments, it may seem like the comedian came out of nowhere this past year, but Fielder's recent success is a result of cultivating his comedic voice via YouTube videos, which led him to TV work on Canada's This Hour Has 22 Minutes and previous Comedy Central shows Important Things with Demetri Martin and Jon Benjamin Has a Van. Nathan Fielder began making his own short films as a 23-year-old living in Toronto in 2006, and his YouTube channel, which features over 30 original videos (short films, web series, and [...]

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Videolist: Bill Hader's Best 'SNL' Sketches

by | May 14th, 2013

With today's news that Bill Hader is leaving Saturday Night Live after eight seasons as a wildly-popular cast member on the show, we've collected videos of Hader's best sketches for a nice look back at the excellent work he's done on SNL. From characters like everybody's favorite clubhopper Stefon to ancient reporter Herb Welch and dead-on impressions of Al Pacino, Alan Alda, and Vincent Price, they're all here. SNL has some awfully big shoes to fill next year.

Check out a ton of classic Bill Hader sketches below:

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Watch the 'Freaks and Geeks' Cast's Audition Tapes

by | November 2nd, 2012

"I was looking for kids who seemed authentic," says Judd Apatow about the casting process for his and Paul Feig's cult hit late 90s high school series Freaks and Geeks. Apatow and Feig certainly found an eclectic bunch of real teen actresses and actors, all of whom seemed like actual high school students and not just performers trying to fit into the usual stock teen movie clichés. Feig recalls in a recent A.V. Club interview, “We can’t just cast this with a bunch of beautiful kids and put glasses on them and mess up their hair and say, 'Oh, they’re nerds.’ We’ve got to have real casting.' [...]

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Who's Your Favorite 'Office' Character?

by | October 2nd, 2012

About a year or so after the American version of The Office first premiered in 2005, I remember asking my aunt if she’d seen the show yet. She cringed immediately and said “Oh, I tried that show, it’s unbearable. I work with those people.”

Many of us have worked with judgmental Christian cat ladies like Angela, creepy old dudes like Creed, or bosses like Michael who seem more occupied with being your buddy than properly managing a company. And while some Office characters are more or less caricatures, others — like Jim, Pam, and at times, Michael — can not only evoke our darkest fears and worries about living [...]

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