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John Oliver is sticking with HBO's Last Week Tonight for at least another year. Oliver has signed a 12-month deal with the cable network, keeping Last Week Tonight on air until the end of 2027. His previous deal was up this year. The interesting element is that it's only a one-year…

Tom Holland was ready to guest-host Saturday Night Live amid his press tour for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but the timing didn’t work out. The actor recently revealed that he is “petrified” of hosting the NBC late-night sketch show because of his dyslexia and the need to read cue cards during…

Donald Trump had comedians everywhere — Jon Stewart included — thankful for some grade-A material when he photobombed Spain’s victory trophy moment at Sunday’s World Cup final. On Monday’s episode of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, a grimacing Stewart was flabbergasted at why, exactly, the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Show is on a hot streak. Comedy Central’s late-night satirical talk show scored its highest-rated Q2 in the key 18-49 demo in nine years, led by Jon Stewart’s Monday night episodes, per new data from Paramount Skydance. In the second quarter of the year, The Daily Show…

Nearly 15 years after her last appearance, Kathy Griffin doesn’t expect to get another invite to Jimmy Fallon’s late-night talk show. The 2x Emmy winner recently claimed she’s likely been “banned” from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as she called out the double standard of having Conor…

UPDATED: Bill Maher celebrated his ability to anger the right and the left Sunday as he received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize, with a message to those who complain about being mocked: Stop being ridiculous. He cited the center’s chairman, Donald Trump, who was not present, and his…

Comedians including Louis C.K. and Jay Leno and political figures like Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) turned out for Bill Maher on Sunday as he received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize. Guests were greeted, though, by a reminder of the legal wrangling…

EXCLUSIVE: Amidst renewed American strikes on Iranian targets today and responses from the Islamic Republic, JD Vance kept to his schedule and showed up on Real Time with Bill Maher. Set for a sit-down interview with Mark Twain Prize winner Maher, the vice president rolled into CBS Television…

Andy Cohen got emotional on Watch What Happens Live as he paid tribute to a late-night show producer who died earlier in the week. Kyra Samson was a production manager on the Bravo late-night talk show who died on Tuesday, June 23, following a brain cancer diagnosis at the age of…

On his last show before his traditional summer break, Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday night announced the celebs who will fill in for him as guest hosts of Jimmy Kimmel Live! over the next couple of months. Tiffany Haddish will kick things off, hosting the week of July 6. She’ll be followed throughout…

EXCLUSIVE: A lot has changed in late-night, in the media and in America in the 12 years since Jay Leno stopped being the host of The Tonight Show. For one thing, there is a new king of late-night, but he isn’t on TV. “I mean, podcasts really are the new talk show. Joe Rogan is the new…

Jon Stewart, a born and bred New Yorker, kicked off his Monday night installment of The Daily Show celebrating the momentous victory of the Knicks, shouting out sanitation workers and the community of NYC for coming together to celebrate the team’s triumph for the first time since…