More Saturday Night Live news? SNL eyes a fourth new hire to the featured cast! Meet Jay Pharoah
by If people were excited to hear that Saturday Night Live had hired three new cast members to featured player status (as well as a number …
Category: Saturday Night Live
Round-up: Interviews with past SNLers Will Forte, Colin Quinn; present writer Michael Patrick O’Brien
Before you get too excited by thinking I've rounded up some interviews with the brand-new members of Saturday Night Live, let's remember that Will Forte …
Meet two more new writers for SNL’s 36th season: Heather Anne Campbell and Tom Flanigan
Saturday Night Live continues to add new people to the roster in advance of its upcoming 36th season, which begins Sept. 25, 2010. We learned a …
Casting news: Paul Brittain, Taran Killam, Vanessa Bayer look set to join SNL for its 36th season
It's the end of August, which has become the silly season for Saturday Night Live, in which comedy fans obsess over every single detail of …
SNL auditions in Chicago during #dcm12, leaving 1/10th of The Reckoning to face “the reckoning”
I'll have a longer report about the 12th annual Del Close Marathon soon enough, but perhaps the most awkward moment of DCM12 happened on Friday …
Joe Mantegna and Robert Smigel talk about getting the SNL “Super Fans” back together in Chicago
Back in June, Robert Smigel and Bob Odenkirk rounded up the "Super Fans" from their SNL sketches for a special live reading of their 1995 …
Celebrate the movie opening of “MacGruber” with these clips and quotes from Will Forte
The folks behind the SNL sketch-to-film adaptation of MacGruber really have won me over with their promotional efforts this week, and even just in the …
SNL #35.22 Season finale with Alec Baldwin, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
If I were to tell you that Saturday Night Live closed out its 35th season with a perfectly enjoyable episode, would you believe me? Of …
SNL #35.21 Mother’s Day all-stars with Betty White, Fey, Poehler, Rudolph, Dratch, Gasteyer, Shannon
Too many of my acquaintances were hyped up about this show before it ever went live, which to me, is always an ominous sign. With …
Betty White’s SNL all-star dress rehearsal cuts: Debbie Downer, Bronx Beat, Joyologist, car bomber
With so many former cast members of Saturday Night Live returning to help out guest host Betty White, we knew we were in for a …