Julio Torres, writer on Saturday Night Live and frequent collaborator/correspondent for Jimmy Fallon, returned to The Tonight Show on Friday to deliver a stand-up performance as “a carefree platinum blonde.” That’s not who he always was, tho. He has cared about significant matters, such as Cinderella’s glass slipper. Roll the...
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Michael Palascak’s mother may have been more excited than he was to perform on Thursday’s Late Late Show with James Corden. But as he has to explain to her, you don’t need to be famous to have famous-people problems. Such as going to the wedding of your girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend. Roll the...
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You can run from your problems if your problems are location-based. So jokes Joe Machi on his most recent late-night performance, from Wednesday’s Conan. What about the problems other people only think he has, though? Roll the...
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Move over Fluffy. Here comes Mr. Iglesias. Netflix announced today it has ordered a 10-episode season of Mr. Iglesias, a new multi-cam sitcom starring stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias, as well as two comedy specials from him to come. In his sitcom, Iglesias will star as a good-natured public high school teacher who works at his alma mater. He takes on teaching gifted but misfit kids to not only save them from being “counseled out” by a bully bureaucrat Assistant Principal, but also to help them unlock their full potential. “When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a...
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Normally the rotating networks who host the Emmy Awards each fall use it as an opportunity to showcase their star late-night talk-show host. NBC has done that before for both Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers. For 2018, though, they’re going with Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update duo of Colin Jost and Michael Che, who’ll co-host the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 17, 2018. Lorne Michaels will executive produce the Emmys, and there are plans for other SNL stars to pitch in. “NBC is thrilled to be the home of this year’s Emmy Awards and with Colin and...
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