20-434: The Weekly may refer to: The Weekly with Charlie Pickering , an Australian news satire series The Weekly with Wendy Mesley , a defunct Canadian news series The New York Times Presents , an American documentary series titled The Weekly for its first season Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
40-570: A guest. A previously prepared sketch, story or interview was often presented by Tom Gleeson and Judith Lucy . The show was pre-recorded in front of an audience in ABC's Ripponlea studio on the same day of its airing from 2015 to 2017. In 2018, the fourth series episodes were pre-recorded in front of an audience at the ABC Southbank Centre studios. Gleeson's interview segment Hard Chat is inspired by Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis , and
60-806: A heated argument he had with Jon Stewart over a June 2011 Daily Show bit about Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain . Despite this, he appeared on Stewart's final episode of Daily Show . In October 2009, he worked with rapper Slim Thug on the music video "Still a Boss", a parody of how the recession is affecting the rap community. Cenac costarred in Medicine for Melancholy , an independent drama by Barry Jenkins released in 2008 that includes issues of African American identity and gentrification in San Francisco. Cenac's other film roles include supporting parts in Sleepwalk with Me and Hits , as well as
80-589: A lead role in 2016's Jacqueline Argentine and 2017's festival hit, Fits and Starts . Cenac played the voice of Lenny and Michael Johnson in the Nickelodeon animated series Fanboy & Chum Chum . Cenac guest-starred on the MC Frontalot album Solved . Cenac's first hour-long comedy special, Comedy Person, premiered May 14, 2011, on Comedy Central . In October 2014, Netflix released Cenac's second comedy special, Wyatt Cenac: Brooklyn . This album
100-421: A live audience due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions and comedian Luke McGregor joined the show as a regular contributor. Judith Lucy did not return in 2021 and Zoë Coombs Marr joined as a new cast member in season 7 with the running joke that she was fired from the show in episode one yet she kept returning to work for the show. The show starts with a cold open which consists of a short introduction to
120-459: A third season, which premiered on 1 February 2017. The fourth season premiered on 2 May 2018 at the later time slot of 9:05pm to make room for the series return of Gruen at 8:30pm, and was signed on for 20 episodes. In addition to the series renewal in September 2015, a one-off special titled The Yearly was commissioned, which premiered on 16 December 2015. A second Yearly special aired
140-561: A writer on King of the Hill , Cenac garnered public attention in The Doomed Planet comedy sketch in which he did an impression of then-senator Barack Obama , discussing possible campaign posters. In June 2008, Cenac was hired as a correspondent and writer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . After making several comedic appearances along with other correspondents, Cenac filed his first field report on July 21, 2008; titled "Baruch Obama,"
160-448: Is an Australian news satire series on the ABC . The series premiered on 22 April 2015, featuring Charlie Pickering as host with Tom Gleeson , Adam Briggs and Judith Lucy in the cast who joined the show in 2019, replacing Kitty Flanagan . On 18 September 2015, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on 3 February 2016. On 2 November 2016, the series was renewed for
180-758: The Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before moving to Los Angeles. As of October 2014, Cenac lives in Fort Greene , Brooklyn , and previously lived in Prospect Heights during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Cenac is the nephew of the Hon. Mr. Justice Dunbar Cenac, Registry of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court . His father was
200-527: The Jungle . The Yearly with Charlie Pickering is an annual special which relives the year's highlights and lowlights. It concludes with The Weekly's Person of the Year. The first show screened on 16 December 2015. Wyatt Cenac Wyatt John Foster Cenac Jr. ( / ˈ w aɪ . ə t s ɪ ˈ n æ k / WY -ət sin- AK ; born April 19, 1976) is an American comedian, actor, producer, and writer. He
220-729: The cousin of former deputy prime minister of Grenada Bernard Coard , who was imprisoned for 25 years following the American invasion of Grenada in October 1983. Cenac's paternal thrice-great-grandfather Cherebin Cenac was an officer from Agen , France, on a French battleship during the Napoleonic Wars who settled in Soufrière, Saint Lucia . Cherebin's youngest child, Francis (1830–1892), later emigrated to Grenada. Having previously worked for three years as
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#1732868660649240-411: The following year, premiering on 14 December 2016. On the final episode of season 4 of the series, Kitty Flanagan announced that she would be leaving the show. Flanagan made one final appearance on The Yearly with Charlie Pickering. In 2019, the series was renewed for a fifth season with Judith Lucy announced as a new addition to the cast as a "wellness expert". In 2020, the show was filmed without
260-454: The guests and main stories coming up. The program's format has been compared to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver , following a similar structure. Pickering delivers a selection of the past week's news stories interspersed with jokes. Similarly to The Daily Show , most episodes feature a cross to a specialised correspondent (including Adam Briggs , Loyiso Gola , Jonathan Pie , Tiff Stevenson , and Wyatt Cenac ), and/or an interview with
280-413: The report discussed Jewish voters' opinions of Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama. He continued to integrate satirical Black-oriented material in his Daily Show segments, including "Rapper or Republican" until his final Daily Show appearance on December 13, 2012. In a July 2015 appearance on WTF with Marc Maron , Cenac said that his departure from The Daily Show had stemmed in part from
300-508: The title The Weekly . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Weekly&oldid=1096189735 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Weekly with Charlie Pickering The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
320-729: Was a correspondent and writer for The Daily Show from 2008 to 2012. He starred in the TBS series People of Earth and in Barry Jenkins 's first feature Medicine for Melancholy . He also hosted and produced the HBO series Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas . Cenac was born in New York on April 19, 1976, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan and spent his early years in the Bronx . His father, Wyatt Cenac Sr.,
340-697: Was a cab driver born in Saint Mark Parish, Grenada , in 1944. When Cenac was five, his father was shot and killed in his cab by a teenage passenger in Harlem. Cenac moved with his mother, a New York native, and Trinidadian stepfather to Dallas , Texas, in 1981. He spent his summers with his maternal grandmother in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in an apartment on President Street. While in elementary school, he became friends with comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan , who also introduced him to comic books. He graduated from
360-549: Was later spun off into a quiz show entitled Hard Quiz . In 2020, the segment appeared with new titling and a new format, called Yard Chat . This was due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia , which forced Gleeson to work from home and do the chat "in his yard". Film critic Margaret Pomeranz has also had a slot as a guest reviewer, giving humorous reviews of TV shows, such as Married at First Sight Below Deck , and Love in
380-596: Was nominated at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album. In 2014, he guest-starred in an episode of the Netflix series BoJack Horseman . The following year, he appeared in a filmed segment with fellow comedians Rachel Feinstein and Alex Karpovsky on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver . Cenac co-hosted four episodes of The Bugle podcast with Andy Zaltzman in 2016; Zaltzman previously hosted alongside Oliver. Cenac released his third stand up album Furry Dumb Fighter in 2016 both digitally and on vinyl. It
400-465: Was recorded in Madison, WI. Cenac reports that the album title is meant to sound like "freedom fighter." The same year he starred in TBS sitcom People of Earth . Cenac played the lead role of Ozzie Graham, a journalist writing about a support group for self-professed alien abductees. The show was cancelled after two seasons. In 2017 Cenac released a web-series titled aka Wyatt Cenac about his life as
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