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‘Tis the season of giving and The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon loves a surprise — especially when it comes to the show’s long-running “12 Days of Christmas Sweaters” giveaway, which began during his Late Night years.

“Whenever [Fallon] walks by, he turns the other way — we’re like, ‘Hide that sweater!’” says longtime The Tonight Show costume designer Mario Martines. Each year, he plays the role of Santa leading a workshop of holiday elves — i.e., an in-house team of four, including assistant Erin Byrne — who make the knit creations.

Over the span of the dozen “12 Days of Christmas Sweater” episodes, an audience member is selected at random to receive, on camera, one of Martines’ fantastical creations. This year marks a decade of the spirited tradition, which kicked off on Dec. 7 with a sparkling snowy knit, adorned with custom-printed fairies, sprites and two Santas flying through the air.

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Comedy lovers can laugh for a good cause as Bring Back Laughs sets the lineup for its Covid-19 event on October 1 and 2. Among the comedians slated to appear during the two-day event are Pete Davidson, Hannibal Buress, Ilana Glazer and Hasan Minhaj.

Inspired by Rebecca Trent’s comedy charity events and by Saturday Night Live‘s Michael Che, Bring Back Laughs seeks to raise funds for nonprofit Direct Relief.

The nonprofit will team with public health authorities and other nonprofit organizations to provide support to U.S. businesses impacted by the pandemic and provide PPE and essential medical items to front line workers.

Kristian Mercado is set to direct the outdoor event set to take place in Brooklyn. Janeane Garofalo, Paula Poundstone, Kenny and Keith Lucas, Sam Jay, Myq Kaplan and Seth Herzog serve as additional performers.

Bring Back Laughs, produced by Supreme Robot Pictures, will be available for streaming and on-demand later this fall.

City Winery will livestream its 20th annual Passover variety show, Downtown Seder, Monday, April 6th, with appearances from Perry Farrell, Max Weinberg, Lewis Black and more. The show will start at 6 p.m. Et and will be available to stream via the City Winery website.

The show will loosely fit the contours of a traditional Passover Seder: For instance, Black will discuss the meaning of the bitter herbs, congressman Jerry Nadler will ask the four questions and Farrell and comedian Judy Gold will perform their own personal takes on the Passover staple song,...

Broadway came out last night for the Sixth Annual Paul Rudd All-Star Bowling Benefit to support Say The Stuttering Association for the Young. Attendees included Mike Adam, Lazaro Arbos, Kate Arrington, David Alan Basche, Erich Bergen, Everett Bradley, Alex Brightman, Jenn Colella, Maddie Corman, Nadia Dajani, Lucy DeVito, Brandon Victor Dixon, Melissa Errico, Gilbert Gottfried, Mariska Hargitay, Jeremy Hays, Peter Hermann, Seth Herzog, Cady Huffman, Thomas Kail, Chilina Kennedy, Richard Kind, Terry Kinney, Alex Lacamoire, Ilana Levine, Justin Long, Patrick McEnroe, Keira Naughton, Michael Oberholtzer, Alysia Reiner, Caroline Rhea, Nicki Richards, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Michael Shannon, Evan Todd, Betsy Wolfe, Frank Wood, and many more...

Broadway came out last night for the Fifth AnnualPaul RuddAll-Star Bowling Benefit to support Say The Stuttering Association for the Young. Attendees included Emily Bergl, Alex Brightman,Geneva Carr, Alexander Chaplin, Nadia Dajani, Melissa Errico,Gilbert Gottfried, Jenna Leigh Green, Mariska Hargitay, Jeremy Hays, Peter Hermann, Seth Herzog, Cady Huffman, James Monroe Iglehart, Richard Kind, Alex Lacamoire, Patrick McEnroe, Greg Naughton, Michael Oberholtzer, Kelli O'Hara, Caroline Rhea, Nicki Richards, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Frank Wood, amp many more, as well as Say kids.

Chris Hardwick is busy hosting new Comedy Central game show @midnight, but he's apparently not too busy for a round of bowling with one of his fellow late night hosts. On the latest episode of the Nerdist Channel's All-Star Celebrity Bowling, Hardwick's team of geeky dudes goes up against Jimmy Fallon and his Late Night gang. Fallon's team consists of his head writer, A.D. Miles; his announcer, Steve Higgins; and the leader of his pit band (The Roots), Questlove. Hardwick's team is an impressive one in its own right, as it includes comedian Seth Herzog, musician Jonathan Coulton, and (because why not) astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (who previously hosted a video version of his Star Talk podcast on Nerdist). Apparently, Tyson does a much better job mapping the origins of the universe than a bowling ball's trajectory down the lane. It's the first new All-Star Celebrity Bowling episode in over a month,...

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Lifetime is making a movie about Donatella Versace and The Hollywood Reporter says that Gina Gershon will play Donatella with Enrico Colantoni as Gianni and Raquel Welch as their Aunt Lucia. I’m sure Gershon will be great but she’ll have to make us forget:

If only Ugly Betty were successful enough for a Fabia spin-off.

The next season of The Real World wil return to San Francisco and risk comparisons to the show at its peak. However, ratings are sinking — the current season is attracting half as many viewers as 2011′s return to Las Vegas did. Thus, the iconic series may be heading towards its series finale but not before producers try to adjust the format. The Real World has already tried being more substantial and wallowing in the worst of reality TV. What is left to try?

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Playing video games with your mom isn't always a good idea, but it Is always hilarious. In honor of Jimmy Fallon’s annual Video Game Week, he’s asking fans to do just that and post the results on YouTube.

And if anyone is unsure of what Fallon is looking for, "Late Night" writer Seth Herzog and his mom provide a perfect example in the video above.

It was a family affair for Ricky Schroder, who took quite a talking-to from the people who raised him – on-screen in '80s sitcom Silver Spoons, that is.

More than 25 years since their show ended in 1987, the actor reunited with Joel Higgins, who played Edward Stratton III, and Erin Gray, who played Kate Summers, at New York City's Friars Club, where he took a few fun-spirited digs at Friday's "So You Think You Can Roast!?" event.

"I'm the highlight of your careers," the former child star, 42, quipped back to his Silver Spoons costars.

Also poking fun at Schroder: roastmaster D. B. Sweeney...

It was a family affair for Ricky Schroder, who took quite a talking-to from the people who raised him - on-screen in '80s sitcom Silver Spoons, that is. More than 25 years since their show ended in 1987, the actor reunited with Joel Higgins, who played Edward Stratton III, and Erin Gray, who played Kate Summers, at New York City's Friars Club, where he took a few fun-spirited digs at Friday's "So You Think You Can Roast!?" event. "I'm the highlight of your careers," the former child star, 42, quipped back to his Silver Spoons costars. Also poking fun at Schroder: roastmaster...

It was a Stratton family reunion for the stars of the popular '80s sitcom Silver Spoons Friday night in New York City. Former cast members Joel Higgins and Erin Gray -- more commonly known to fans as Edward and Katie Stratton -- came together at the expense of their onetime TV son, Ricky Schroder. Schroder, now 42, was at the Friar's Club as the guest of honor for the "So You Think You Can Roast!?" event, alongside roastmaster D.B. Sweeney and celebrity judges Gilbert Gottfried, Seth Herzog and Alan Zweibel. The event was part of an ongoing series at the New

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“New York is a good place to try new material,” standup comic Hannibal Buress says. “There’s so many places to perform, you can do three and four shows in a night.”In addition to his own weekly Sunday-night show at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, some of Buress’ favorite low-pressure spots in the city include “Whiplash,” a free workout room hosted by Leo Allen every Monday night at Ucb; “Sweet,” hosted by Seth Herzog every Tuesday at Ella; “Big Terrific,” with Max Silvestri, Gabe Liedman, and Jenny Slate on Wednesday nights at Cameo; and Eugene Mirman’s “Pretty Good Friends” every Sunday night at Union Hall in Brooklyn. He tends to inhabit the downtown clubs in the Village or the Lower East Side rather than Times Square.Just because it’s a good place doesn’t mean he’ll always have a good show, though.“Sometimes the audience isn’t great,...

If you're one of those people with an elevator phobia, and your co-workers always laugh at you when you walk ten flights of stairs to get to a meeting, and your friends always groan when you spit out the statistic that there are twenty to thirty elevator-related fatalities per year, then you'll have the last Mf laugh after reading this: Thursday night, after the premiere of Tribeca Films' critically acclaimed Janie Jones at the Gramercy Park Hotel, the director and stars of the films — including actors Josh Charles (pictured above) and Alessandro Nivola, director David Rosenthal and comedian Seth Herzog — fell eight stories from the rooftop bar before the emergency brake finally went off. The fourteen terrified passengers were stuck for more than half an hour before they all climbed out on their own, minutes before the Fdny arrived to help them evacuate. The next morning, Gramercy [...]...

Stars including The Good Wife's Josh Charles, actor Alessandro Nivola and director David M. Rosenthal were left fearing for their lives at a movie party in New York as their hotel elevator plummeted from the 16th floor.

The group, which also included British actor Guy Burnet, actress Rosie Fellner and comedian Seth Herzog, was leaving the afterparty for new movie Janie Jones at the Gramercy Park Hotel in Manhattan on Thursday night.

They got into an elevator and headed down from the rooftop terrace, but when another couple got in on the 16th floor, the compartment dropped and plummeted eight floors before stopping.

Janie Jones director Rosenthal tells Nymag.com, "We've all had a couple of drinks... and we're just piling into the elevator... Everyone is yelling and hooting... (The couple) decide to jump in, and as soon as they jump in, the thing starts plummeting down. His girlfriend is lucky she didn't get killed because her foot was barely inside the door when the elevator dropped. I think we fell eight stories before the emergency brake went off. We initially thought we'd gone all the way to the basement and bounced on the springs."

Emergency services were called to the scene, but the frustrated group decided not to wait, and took action themselves, climbing out of a gap in the doors onto a floor.

Rosenthal adds, "(One guy) decided he just wanted out of there, so he dropped his glass, which broke on the floor, and climbed through the gap... He turned around and stuck out his hand and was like, 'Okay, who's next?'"

Gramercy manager Elizabeth Mao confirmed the incident in a statement, insisting the elevator will now undergo thorough testing: "There was an elevator malfunction... Our security team responded to the incident immediately... All guests were safely evacuated... We are ensuring the elevator car in question undergoes a thorough inspection..."...

When looking at the upcoming Academy Awards race, there are dozens if not hundreds of experts or pundits you could turn to for insight.

Seth Herzog is not one of those people.

All the more reason why you should watch the funnyman who’s appeared on/in ”30 Rock” and “Role Models” (fun fact: he’s also Jimmy Fallon’s warmup comic) break down the Best Picture race in a series we call — wait for it — Seth Herzog Breaks It Down.

Like you, he doesn’t know the full cast listing to every film nominated. So he’s more relatable. And a helluva lot funnier.

To all our fellow New Yorkers out there, make sure you check out Sweet, the longest continuously running downtown comedy show in NYC, hosted and produced by Mr. Herzog himself. It’s at Ella every Tuesday at 9 p.m. Check out Facebook for the full details.