There’s nothing like a room full of unapologetically joy-filled women of color. On Wednesday night, BFFs Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson—the two dope queens themselves—joined press and fans for an exclusive first look at their HBO four-part special of 2 Dope Queens at the Public Hotel in New York City. The room…
Very excited about this item: Deadline reported on Thursday that former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams is slated to write and executive produce a Showtime series with director Jim Strouse, whom she also works with on the Netflix comedy The Incredible Jessica James.
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Last night, Jessica Williams stopped by The Late Show to promote her upcoming Netflix movie, The Incredible Jessica James, and told Stephen Colbert a charming story about meeting J.K. Rowling, first via Twitter and then in real life. Turns out they share a birthday and they both play the Sims for fun.
Ever since Jessica Williams seized our attention as a correspondent on the Daily Show, we’ve eagerly followed her rising star. Now we’re fortunate to be mere weeks from the release of her loosely-autobiographical film, The Incredible Jessica James. And the latest trailer suggests that, indeed, something incredible is…
Here’s the long-awaited trailer (via Entertainment Weekly) for The Incredible Jessica James, the Netflix movie starring former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams as a character with the same first name. Is that confusing? It’s okay. Give it a minute.
Kristen Stewart’s been giving great, gracefully twitchy interviews this week as she makes the rounds at Sundance promoting her directorial debut Come Swim.
Jessica Williams will soon be on the big screen again, and this time she’ll stay up there for most of the 90 minutes or so you’re in the theater.
Thursday evening marked the inimitable, upsettingly talented Jessica Williams’ last episode of The Daily Show before leaving to start work on her own show for Comedy Central. I’m not sure what caliber send-off would have satisfied me, but this wasn’t it! Maybe I love too deeply?
Jessica Williams is done at The Daily Show; her last episode will be Thursday. But don’t worry, she isn’t going far: she’s got a deal to develop her own show at Comedy Central.
Shockingly, even powerful, rich actors have poor boundaries when it comes to women’s bodies.
Paul Ryan is willing to run for Speaker of the House... under some conditions. For instance, a workplace that allows him quality time with his family, the kind of workplace he doesn’t support for the rest of America. The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams outlined some additional riders that he might attach to his…
Apparently, conservative activists have decided that Paul Ryan, of all people, just isn’t conservative enough for the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives. Looking for a little context on why? The Daily Show explains that he got “Playboy’d.”
Despite its position as liberal watchdog and Jon Stewart’s persona as mensch-y everyman, his legacy at The Daily Show has been tainted by its perceived woman problem. Critics have pointed out that its female correspondents have been few and far-between, and the writing staff (as with every late night show) has…
Last night, the Daily Show and Jessica Williams tackled the addition of a woman (TBD) to the $10, which she calls not a giant leap so much as an “awkward trip forward on a jagged sidewalk that you pretended you did on purpose.” You see, the Treasury is redesigning it because it was due for an anti-counterfeiting…
While the Supreme Court is currently considering the question of marriage equality, the wider cultural consensus has shifted so much on the matter in recent years that this feels like a last stand for opponents of same-sex marriage. And so, Jessica Williams and The Daily Show took a few minutes to bid farewell to the…
Last night, The Daily Show covered CNN’s horrendous coverage of the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, which took place at the same time protests were erupting in Baltimore following the funeral of Freddie Gray.
HB 494, Alabama's new parental consent law regarding abortion is, as we've noted before, uniquely heinous, given that it allows fetuses to be appointed a guardian ad litem to "represent the interests of the unborn child during certain proceedings" as the text of the law puts it. Yep, that would be a lawyer who argues…
After a whirlwind two days in New York, Will & Kate have returned home to the U.K., leaving America wondering what to make of it all. Well, the Daily Show's Jessica Williams is here to break this whole thing wide open: "Jon, the royals came here looking for a black friend." In the process, she manages to ruin Oreos…
The Daily Show heads to Austin this week, for a string of Texas-themed jokes (Guns! The death penalty! Hats! Everything is so big!) and, last night, a chat with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis. But first, they tackled how Texas dealt with its recent brush with Ebola.
