The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A lot of people have arrived here this week via Google searches for "The Mellow Show" on Saturday Night Live, with variations for Ashton Kutcher as John Mayer, and other appropriate search terms. NBC didn’t release video of this online, and still hadn’t as I typed this, so I’ll do …
Found it! Here is Casey Wilson’s performance from last week’s SNL as Dusty Velvet, quadriplegic stripper. Enjoy it while you can. Update: Here’s a new copy someone recorded off the TV.
Finally. NBC releases at least a bit of footage from last weekend’s sought-after SNL sketch, The Cougar Den, featuring a surprise turn by Cameron Diaz. Here, SNL cast member Fred Armisen talks with Diaz backstage about her appearance. And here, while it lasts, is the full sketch. Still waiting for …
If you had told me that the opening sketch would last nine minutes and 30 seconds, feature all nine regular cast members, and the premise would be Gen. Petraeus testifying before Congress in deadpan, I’d say, "Really?" And I’d mean it in the way Seth Meyers (the other cast member/head …
Today marks the launch of Videogum, the Stereogum spinoff helmed by leading bloggers Gabe Delahaye and Lindsay Robertson. They also co-host the monthly Ritalin Readings series at the Slipper Room, so now they’re doubly delicious. If that makes sense. You can see how well they already work together by reading …
Anyone want to guess how we open the show? Did you guess Hillary Clinton? Of course you did. The SNL Clinton trail continues unabated with a cold open featuring Bill and Hillary (Darrell Hammond and Amy Poehler) talking about the news that "broke" just a day or two earlier about …
So, yes, Britney Spears avoided the fake cameras long enough to act in front of legitimate TV cameras in a special hyped guest appearance on Monday night’s episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. The CBS team wisely gave her multiple scenes but kept each scene mercifully …
Does a hot tub automatically make any interview funnier? Apparently so. And I’m not the only one to think so. Super Deluxe is the latest to co-opt the concept with the debut today of Bathing with Bierko, with Craig Bierko in the tub talking up John Malkovich. This may not …
Anyone else watch 60 Minutes last night and realize the immense and intense power of sleep? Anyone not get a good night sleep last night and forget about that? Just checking. I can recall that this past weekend’s edition of Saturday Night Live, however, was perhaps the best of the …
Hulu went live today for general public consumption. Haven’t had enough time to really root around, but just enough to unearth this clip from Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio, in which Chris Rock talks about his audition for Saturday Night Live.