Nashville-based singer-songwriter Thad Cockrell made his debut on The Tonight Show Tuesday, January 26th, performing his song “Swingin’” with the Roots. Cockrell and the Roots linked up remotely for the performance, but despite the distance, they injected the David Bowie and Arcade Fire-indebted track with plenty of punch. “If I’m …
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Arcade Fire debuted a new song, “Generation A” on The Late Show’s special live election night coverage Tuesday, November 3rd. Stephen Colbert introduced the track by describing it as “inspired by the current climate of the country with a hopeful message to the youths,” and, to that end, the clip …
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Brittany Howard performed her solo track “Baby” on The Late Late Show With James Corden Tuesday, September 29th. The musician and her backing band recorded the performance in an otherwise empty theater, with Howard guiding the reflective blues tune as it swung between its prickly lead guitar riff and rousing …
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Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah examined the continued spread of coronavirus and President Donald Trump’s less than reassuring response to the pandemic on their respective shows Wednesday. During a press conference yesterday, Trump announced that Vice President Mike Pence would head up the efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus, …
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Jenny Lewis and her band performed a whimsical “Wasted Youth” from her fourth solo album, On the Line, during The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Monday. She and her seven-piece band wore matching outfits with flower crown-adorned skulls in front of a flower motif backdrop. While the song’s title …
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Comedian Aparna Nancherla vented about social media anxiety and the absurdities of therapy sessions in her stand-up set from Wednesday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “I am on my phone too much,” she said as an overture. “I don’t think I am the only one. But I had a rock-bottom …
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Tracy Morgan channeled a little bit of Lou Bega on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The actor unveiled the “exclusive world premiere” of mock biopic Mambo No. 5. The spoof traced the origins of Lou Bega’s 1999 hit, beginning with Morgan as Bega telling his father he wants to be a mambo star instead of …
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British actor Richard E. Grant said that the benefits of portraying the Spice Girls’ manager in the 1997 movie, Spice World, keep coming.“Lena Dunham wrote four episodes for me to be in Girls because she’d seen me in Spice World, and Adele, with whom I share a birthday, sent me …
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Everyone wants an “I Voted” sticker or hashtag, but not everyone wants to bother earning it. Jimmy Kimmel Live tested that premise on Monday’s episode with the latest installment of “Lie Witness News,” surveying ordinary Americans about casting their ballots in the 2018 midterm election –days before they were capable …
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Stephen Colbert recounted the Week in Trump on Tuesday’s Late Show –from the president’s latest Twitter spat with porn star Stormy Daniels to his “delusional” defense of Saudi Arabia in the Khashoggi case to daughter Ivanka’s inspirational quote gaffe. The comedian opened with Trump’s “one victory” this week. Earlier this …
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