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If you thought you’d seen enough of those TV commercials in which impersonator Frank Caliendo promotes his sketch comedy show through his various celebrity characters, well, get ready for a new round of apologies from Frank. TBS announced today it has ordered eight more episodes. The network that’s trying to …
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Lots of rumor spreading about SNL cast additions this week. Let’s break down one such addition with fun facts. Yay. Fun facts. On the record, Lorne Michaels said he’d make a decision late Thursday. That’s…today. Donald Glover performed his Barack Obama impersonation Tuesday night at Seth …
Gabe & Jenny’s new video series is up at and at them with animation, their subversive wit and dialogue, and cameos with their comedy friends. Check out What’s Doin? on Super Deluxe (note to SD: update the Gabe & Jenny bio so people don’t try to find them and fail …
Jimmy Kimmel‘s back with new episodes, and tonight welcomes comedian Ben Kronberg. Which reminds me, I haven’t seen Kronberg since last year around now in Aspen. Which reminds me, I just uploaded the photos from last year’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in a new album. Take a look back at …
Lorne Michaels made the interview rounds yesterday to promote the return of Saturday Night Live, and more than a couple of people wondered who’d play Barack Obama. Michaels wonders, too. He told the USA Today that he auditioned candidates last week, "and expects to pick from two or three late …
Casey Rose Wilson joins the cast of Saturday Night Live this week in the show’s return from the WGA strike. Lorne Michaels confirmed the hiring to the New York Post, saying (buried in a different angle on SNL): "I think you will love her." Well, what else would he say? …
The New York Post finally writes about Brett Gelman’s "Little Bit of Luck" Take 5 New York Lottery ad campaign that’s taking the city and state by storm. Related: My earlier take on it. Thanks to Adweek’s Ad Freak for the link!
The melodrama mockery continues on this second episode of Horrible People, thanks to creator A.D. Miles and a couple of cameos from Bobby Tisdale and Kurt Braunohler. Language NSFW.
Time out? Time in! OK. Back to blogwork. Noticed NBC ads that "the guests are back on Leno!" so who-ray, right? Will Ferrell guests tonight and likely will regale Jay Leno with all sorts of Semi-Pro mischief. Saw a making-of featurette for Semi-Pro the other night on HBO and feel …
Hooray! The WGA strike is over. Let’s declare a holiday! Wait. We’ve done that already? Great. Let’s schedule some comedic talents for all the late-night TV shows, then, and get on with it… David Letterman: Thursday, Steve Martin; Friday, Al Lubel. Conan O’Brien: Monday, Larry the Cable Guy; Tuesday, Bill …