The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Saturday Night Live announced new staff writer hires last week in advance of its 43rd season premiere. But SNL usually doesn’t put out press releases or make much ado about the comings and goings of its writers, whether because they don’t want to trumpet when someone gets hired only for …
Heather Anne Campbell is one of America’s great improvisers. She has studied under the legendary Del Close in Chicago, performed overseas with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, appeared on MADtv, written for Saturday Night Live, and helped jumpstart FOX’s ADHD Animation Domination High-Definition. In Los Angeles, you’ve seen her or taken …
Jack Whitehall has plenty of questions about air travel, as well as a prank or two up his sleeves. Whitehall shared his thoughts on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. There’s plenty more travel with Whitehall and his dad in a new Netflix series, as well as an upcoming Netflix …
Lorne Michaels brought The Kids in the Hall to television in the late 1980s via HBO and the CBC, and three decades later, he wants to bring them back to whatever you’re calling TV today. You already can still see the five members separately on TV and together in live …
The last time I spoke at length with Felipe Esparza, he was enjoying the fruits of his success as a winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, headlining a theater tour with his fellow finalists that came through New York City’s Times Square in 2010. Esparza quickly capitalized on that with …
NBCUniversal inked a deal with Hulu that’ll grant the streaming platform exclusive rights to several former NBC series and one brand-new series from Seeso that never would’ve seen the light otherwise. The deal includes putting all episodes of 30 Rock on Hulu as of Oct. 1, 2017. Plus, it means …
What does it mean to be black in America? I cannot pretend to truly know myself, but I can turn to my friends with empathy and listen to them, put myself in their shoes. A full generation before Black Lives Matter, Russell Simmons and Stan Lathan were making sure black …
Caleb Synan cleans up well for this performance on Tuesday’s Conan. Synan is from a small Southern town near where they filmed Deliverance, and his hometown’s a bit too proud of that. He has plenty more jokes of his own to be proud of, no matter how many “skits” his …
Moses Storm is a fun young comedian to watch, and this performance on Monday’s Conan is testament to that. Watch how he performs the material so it’s not just a six-minute string of jokes, but a full one-man show that you want to see more of. Until then, watch this!
NBC announced that it has added three new cast members — Heidi Gardner, Luke Null and Chris Redd — to the Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live franchise for its 43rd season, which debuts this Saturday, Sept. 30. Gardner comes from the Groundlings main company in Los Angeles. She is also the …
