A&E’s “Battle for Late Night” revisits past TV clashes much more than current Leno-Conan
by If you thought it was rather fast for a two-hour documentary on the late-night machinations from NBC this January and February, then, well, perhaps you're …
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SNL #35.20 with Gabourey Sidibe and MGMT, recapped
We open cold with President Obama (Fred Armisen) blabbing away something about financial reform, and yes, I know Obama gave a speech to Wall Street …
John Mulaney calls out Girl Scouts on cookie sales in his SNL stand-up debut on Weekend Update
Even three time zones away, my radar went nuts overnight tonight with people buzzing about brilliant young stand-up comedian John Mulaney, who is a writer …
Taping Comedy Central’s “Mash Up” special: Swan song for Blerds, or potentially its phoenix rising
Earlier in the 2000s, a group of Chicago stand-up comedians began working together to make their careers a little more innovative and in tunes with …
Taping Comedy Central’s “Mash Up” special: Swan song for Blerds, or potentially its phoenix rising
Earlier in the 2000s, a group of Chicago stand-up comedians began working together to make their careers a little more innovative and in tunes with …
Comedy Central orders 7 additional episodes of “Ugly Americans”
While you were wondering if Sarah Silverman and Demetri Martin would get renewed, Comedy Central announced today it had ordered seven additional episodes of its …
IFC’s Dan Pasternack on what the cable channel’s rebranding means: more alt-comedy on cable TV
Dan Pasternack became IFC's VP of Development and Production in February, in a press release from the cable channel that noted IFC had "restructured its original programming …
SNL #35.19 with Ryan Phillipe, Ke$ha
Don't know about you, but I entered this week's episode very conflicted. We have your host, Ryan Phillipe, who co-stars as the non-SNL lead with …
How do you end a late-night TV monologue? Zinger, smile, spin, cue the band: “The George Lopez Game”
I know it looks like I've given away everything right there in the headline, but Joe Mande and Totally J/K are at it again. Earlier, …
See how Nasim Pedrad’s SNL “Talk Show with Ravish” sketch almost didn’t air: Live TV!
I remember during the Jude Law episode of Saturday Night Live last month (#35.17), when late in the night, newcomer Nasim Pedrad got to carry …