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• Posted Friday 2/02/18 at 3:15AM EST

  CBS is poised to reunite with MTV, BET, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon under a proposed merger with Viacom

  A reunion could benefit both companies, especially since Viacom’s cable channels have a big international footprint while giving a boost...

• Posted Thursday 2/01/18 at 6:10PM EST

  Trevor Noah is working on a follow-up memoir to Born a Crime

  The imprint Spiegel & Grau has purchased The Daily Show host’s follow-up to 2016 memoir Born a Crime: Stories from...

• Posted Wednesday 1/31/18 at 4:33PM EST

  Late-night shows that went live after President Trump’s State of the Union didn’t distinguish themselves

  The live reaction after Trump’s speech on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and...

• Posted Tuesday 1/30/18 at 4:45PM EST

  Tom Hanks will become the second member of his family to portray Mister Rogers

  Colin Hanks points out on Twitter that he played the PBS kids’ TV icon on Drunk History: “Oh, did someone...

• Posted Tuesday 1/30/18 at 4:45PM EST

  Piers Morgan responds after Trevor Noah characterizes him as an “unf*ckable Colin Firth”: “You're not as funny as Jon Stewart”

  The British presenter tweeted at The Daily Show host: “Hi @Trevornoah - I agree I'm 'not as f***able as Colin...

• Posted Friday 1/26/18 at 11:08PM EST

  Roy Wood Jr. turned on The Daily Show in response to his airplane seatmate watching Fox News

  The Daily Show correspondent also put on the Thurgood Marshall movie Marshall “for balance.

• Posted Monday 1/22/18 at 11:51PM EST

  Watch a preview of Tiffany Haddish’s Drunk History episode

  Haddish tells the WWII story of Cate Blanchett’s character in The Monuments Men, but she originally wanted to do the...

• Posted Wednesday 1/17/18 at 11:05PM EST

  Comedy Central’s Corporate is sneakily audacious

  Part of what makes Corporate so audacious are the jokes about suicide, says Todd VanDerWerff.

• Posted Wednesday 1/17/18 at 4:02PM EST

  Jordan Klepper’s The Opposition has been the only late-night show to tackle the Aziz Ansari controversy

  As Splitsider notes, Klepper actually “dove into” the polarizing and “tricky topic” with an in-depth discussion with Guardian writer Jessica...

• Posted Tuesday 1/16/18 at 6:10PM EST

  Comedy Central sees a future for both The President Show and The Opposition with Jordan Klepper

  “We’re working that out,” Comedy Central president Kent Alterman said of Anthony Atamanuik’s weekly Trump parody.

• Posted Monday 1/15/18 at 3:55PM EST

  Comedy Central renews The Jim Jefferies Show

  The comedian's late-night series will be back for a 20-episode second season.

• Posted Thursday 1/11/18 at 9:34AM EST

  The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah will be joined on his show by another comic from South Africa

  South African comedian Loyiso Madinga will offer occasional topical segments from South Africa that will be shown intermittently throughout Africa,...

• Posted Wednesday 1/10/18 at 2:41AM EST

  Stephen Colbert helped create Scripto, the application of choice for left-leaning news-comedy shows

  Colbert first introduced Scripto while working on The Colbert Report because TV news-comedy shows had become reliant on another application...

• Posted Sunday 1/07/18 at 3:33AM EST

  Stephen Colbert says he would’ve struggled with his Colbert Report character in the Trump era

  The Late Show host says his Comedy Central character would “100%” be a Trump supporter.

• Posted Thursday 1/04/18 at 2:08PM EST

  The Daily Show and The Opposition will cover President Trump’s State of the Union address with live episodes

  The Comedy Central late-night shows will offer commentary and analysis on Trump’s speech in back-to-back episodes on Jan.