Behind the scenes of SNL’s Weekend Update Thursday
by A fresh presidential debate and the first Weekend Update to get two commercial breaks easily filled Saturday Night Live‘s first live primetime edition of Weekend …
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The Comedy Festival fills 2008 Vegas slate
TBS and The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, aka a "Very Funny" Festival, has filled out its main lineup for the 2008 comedy confab from …
A comedic retrospective on black presidents
New online journalism publication The Daily Beast offers a look back at how various comedians viewed a black presidency, with (language NSFW) voting tips from …
The 2008 Canadian Comedy Awards
Over the weekend in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada’s The Comedy Network handed out the Canadian Comedy Awards, and the Beaver winners (yep, they call them thar …
NBC bails out SNL bailout sketch
MSNBC explains why its sister network NBC briefly took down one of last weekend’s SNL sketches parodying the government bailout. Here is the revised sketch. …
Ann Curry does stand-up comedy
Today on NBC’s The Today Show, co-anchor Ann Curry showed what happened when she tried performing stand-up comedy before a live crowd (packed with friends …
James Adomian as Apocalypse John McCain
The second presidential debate pits Sen. Barack Obama against Sen. John McCain in a town hall setting, but I’m just writing that as an excuse …
HBO’s Down & Dirty with Jim Norton: Debut review
Just a few quick thoughts on the debut episode of HBO’s Down & Dirty with Jim Norton, which premiered over the weekend and airs again …
Want tickets for Weekend Update Thursdays? A how-to tip!
So you know that Saturday Night Live is going live in primetime for the next few Thursdays (Oct. 9, Oct. 16, Oct. 23) before Election …
Penelope: Princess of Pets, the finale?
The final three episodes of web series, Penelope: Princess of Pets, finally went online at Super Deluxe this morning. Will Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal …