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Saturday Night Live has confirmed that it’s adding Melissa Villaseñor and Alex Moffat to the cast as featured players for season 42. I told you over the weekend that they were both finalists for the gig, along with Chris Redd, who had The Lonely Island vouching for him after his breakout …
The Creative Arts division of the Emmys handed out awards over two nights this weekend. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey won the guest actress in a comedy category for hosting Saturday Night Live together, while Peter Scolari won guest actor in comedy for HBO’s Girls. For both Poehler and Scolari, …
What happens when comedians sit down with Lorne Michaels remains such an enigma shrouded in mystique that Marc Maron has made it a staple of his popular podcast. In fact, it’s one of the ultimate WTF moments in comedy. Does Lorne outright hire anyone for Saturday Night Live, or does …
Chris Redd would have and could still be the breakout star of Popstar, if you’d only see the movie. You probably will be much more likely to once you start seeing Redd on Saturday Night Live. Multiple sources confirmed to The Comic’s Comic that Redd emerged from last month’s auditions and …
Mikey Day passed his summer audition, receiving a promotion from writing staff to cast member for the upcoming 42nd season of Saturday Night Live after co-starring this summer on NBC’s new weekly variety series, Maya & Marty. Day, 36, has written for SNL since 2013, most frequently writing partners for …
rother Taran Killam may not be coming back to Saturday Night Live for his seventh season this fall, but he did have a chance to document the clearing out of his dressing room, and cleared the air in doing so. Killam delivered a sincere message via Instagram a few days …
“Welcome to The Late Show. I’m your host, Larry Wilmore.” Wait, what? CBS opened cold on Thursday’s episode of The Late Show with Wilmore subbing in for regular host Stephen Colbert, even getting in one monologue joke amid chants of “Larry” before Colbert interceded. “I’m sorry, man. I thought whoever …
Tape Face, aka The Boy with Tape on His Face, is scheduled to launch a European tour next week. But somewhere over the course of the summer, this comedian with the style, charm and antics of a street performer — who delivered the welcoming address to performers this August at …
There will not be a stand-up comedian in the finals of the 2016 season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Teenager Lori Mae Hernandez came up just short, so to speak, this week. Voted out after this week’s semifinal round, in which she joked about how another Laurie Hernandez became much …
What were the last two weeks of your heterosexuality like? For comedian Brent Sullivan, it involved an unhealthy obsession with female bodybuilders, as he joked in his performance Wednesday on Conan. Sullivan also dished about a new low he felt in therapy, which is perhaps lower than the time he …
