The Definitive Guide to Comedy
You ever go on vacation and think, when I get back to work, I'm going to be relaxed, refreshed, ready and rarin' to go with even more gusto then before, but then you get back to work and find a week's worth of emails and junk mail and meetings to …
Abby Elliott, the 21-year-old newbie on the cast of Saturday Night Live, hasn't gotten much airtime in her first two weeks — vomiting in an SNL Digital Short, carrying a clapboard to set up the Beyonce-Justin Timberlake dance sketch, a line in last week's Thanksgiving dinner sketch — but that's …
Here is a newly surfaced video from Saturday Night Live featuring a recent blast from the past, with Bill Hader, Will Forte and guest host Josh Brolin having fun in an office setting calling each other "Fart Face." Is it silly? Yes. Is it sophomoric? Maybe. Is there another layer …
Want to see and hear a little more from one of the new Saturday Night Live cast members, Michaela Watkins? Sure you do! Here is Watkins, backstage with Fred Armisen after last weekend's show. If you cannot see Hulu (you foreigners, you), then try NBC's SNL site.
While I was off in Las Vegas for a comedy fest, staying at the Monte Carlo resort and casino, the kids at Saturday Night Live put on a James Bond sketch in a casino in Monte Carlo. Coincidence? So nice to see The Comic's Comic is still in your hearts …
Say what you will about last weekend's three-act SNL Digital Short that had Andy Samberg and Paul Rudd painting each other in the nude, attempting to sell one of the paintings at auction, then casting it all as a movie to be talked up in a press junket — after …
You know that SNL sketch that got everyone talking, in which Justin Timberlake continues his surprise cameo with a role alongside Bobby Moynihan and Andy Samberg, in black leotards and high heels, dancing backup to Beyonce for her music video, "Single Ladies"? The reason you find it here and not …
With all of the hoopla this week about Saturday Night Live adding two new cast members in Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins, and the comedic prowess of Paul Rudd hosting, who would figure that the most memorable parts of this episode featured surprise performances by Justin Timberlake? Timberlake’s vision of …
The Comic’s Comic has learned that Lorne Michaels didn’t wait too long to figure out how to replace Amy Poehler’s presence in the cast of Saturday Night Live, hiring not one but two new female cast members: Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins. They should make their debuts this Saturday night, …
Tonight in primetime, NBC will rebroadcast this week’s SNL Presidential Bash (now with less dramatic tension!), followed by your late local news and then the SNL hosted by James Franco. Meanwhile, fans looking to relive some offbeat sketches from the past two weeks are in luck, because NBC and Hulu …