Dennis Perkins
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Portland, ME, United States
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Stephen Colbert goes live to recap Biden's first State of the Union
The Late Show actually lives up to its name to provide real-time commentary → Read More
Bob Odenkirk shows Stephen Colbert the lonely process of writing your autobiography
Sometimes you just have to yell at your roomful of ghost writers until they shape the hell up → Read More
John Oliver tackles America's ludicrous hypocrisy surrounding sex work on Last Week Tonight
Turns out that actually talking to sex workers about their needs makes for better policy, strangely → Read More
Hosting his fifth SNL, John Mulaney joins a very crowded Five Timers Club
Luckily, Conan O'Brien kicks down the door on behalf of all the fewer than five-time hosts → Read More
John Mulaney gets his jacket in a guest-filled, very funny Saturday Night Live
Even a preponderance of recurring sketches can't hold five-time host Mulaney down → Read More
On The Late Show, Thomas Lennon reveals the secret to becoming Weird Al's best friend
Weird Al plays Ted Nugent in the once-more revived Reno 911!, premiering today → Read More
Late-night grapples with Trump, Fox News, and the GOP going full fascist cheerleader
As Putin invades Ukraine, Tucker Carlson asks, "Yeah, but has Putin ever called you a racist?" → Read More
Valhalla reshapes Vikings as a century-later action movie, with entertaining results
Jeb Stuart takes advantage of his clean slate to tell a story that’s as much Game Of Thrones as Vikings → Read More
John Turturro workshops a Stephen Colbert-starring Double Indemnity remake
The Batman's latest non-costumed nemesis thinks Colbert would make a good bad guy → Read More
The internet eats itself as Stephen Colbert's AFT becomes an NFT
At least Colbert's entry into the non-fungible nonsense goes to charity → Read More
John Oliver returns to debunk the latest manufactured white panic in Critical Race Theory
Yes, there are now state laws on the books criminalizing making white people feel bad → Read More
Stephen Colbert turns Republicans' current purge of Black history into a party game
Taboo: White Fragility Edition's buzzer censors Black History Month out of your next game night → Read More
Jeffrey Wright drops some Lincoln-era wisdom into our present-day conversation about race
Oh, and Wright talks about being Jim Gordon in The Batman, too → Read More
Arnold Schwarzenegger learned that you really can't prank Danny DeVito with weed
The two, along with Tracy Morgan, are filming the Twins sequel this fall → Read More
The White Lotus' Murray Bartlett explains the intimate intricacies of that particular scene
You really do not want to piss off the staff of your resort hotel → Read More
Spoilers be damned, Channing Tatum assures us that the dog in Dog doesn't die at the end
Tatum promises Jimmy Kimmel he's not going to Marley And Me us → Read More
Keegan-Michael Key reflects on ten years of Key & Peele's influence on the NFL, TSA
At least Hingle McCringleberry's hip-thrusts pumped money into some good causes → Read More
The A.V. Club’s guide to watching the 2022 Winter Olympics
Watching the Beijing games from home is more accessible—and safer—than ever → Read More
The Late Show tackles the NFL's latest racism scandals
Saluting the courage of former Dolphins coach Brian Flores, Stephen Colbert throws multiple flags → Read More
Will Arnett takes us all to Murderville, where comic improvisation is the only law
And the striking sci-fi drama of Raised By Wolves returns → Read More