The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For all of the heightened awareness of Saturday Night Live this fall, you’d think that perhaps the media or viewers likewise would tune in to see how MADtv is spoofing current affairs. But, ah, ha, no. You would be wrong. Both SNL and MADtv spoofed the women of ABC’s The …
We knew Sen. John McCain would be appearing on SNL last night because the McCain campaign told us so, so no secret there. Anyone questioning the Republican presidential nominee’s wisdom should remember three things: 1) McCain has done SNL before and even hosted the show in 2002, 2) McCain also …
A couple of quick things to note on this first day of November: 1) If you missed last week’s episode of Saturday Night Live with Jon Hamm as the host (and Coldplay doing four songs), NBC is replaying it tonight, in primetime, starting at 9:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. That means you’ll …
In case you read my recap of last weekend’s Saturday Night Live but hadn’t yet seen the video, here is the absurd but truly hilarious sketch featuring host Jon Hamm from Mad Men, in a fake ad for Jon Hamm’s John Ham: The ham you can eat in the bathroom. …
How important was Amy Poehler to the current success of Saturday Night Live? Poehler said she wouldn’t leave the show until she gave birth, and even though she clearly was ready to have her baby already, the show continued this past week to operate under the assumption she’d be there …
Before you head off for the weekend and whatever your plans may be, you should set your TV recording devices for the following new comedy programs this weekend:1) The new and improved Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins debuts tonight at 11 p.m. on VH1 2) The fourth and …
Well, well, well. SNL took off the gloves last night and went straight for the funny jugular, with Will Ferrell jump-starting the cold open sketch as President George W. Bush, trying his darnedest to offer a primetime endorsement to John McCain (Darrell Hammond) and Sarah Palin (Tina Fey), thereby letting …
No question that Saturday Night Live has been on a roll this fall, with increased ratings, buzz and nationwide attention, mostly thanks to the presidential campaign but also a little bit to how SNL bounced back from the writers strike. Last weekend’s show, which featured Republican VP candidate Alaska Gov. …
Here’s an extra couple of minutes of footage shot backstage last night before and during Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s visit to Saturday Night Live. I’m pretty sure that was a llama. Anyhoosiers. We also see Will Arnett was in the house, ostensibly to be with his soon-to-be baby mama Amy …
Sometimes a TV show becomes too tapped into the popular culture zeitgeist and gets caught up in it, and loses the sense of wonder that got everyone talking about it in the first place. Remember that sitcom about the woman who shared a NYC apartment with a gay guy, and …