The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Match Game finally is back. The 2016 version, premiering Sunday June 26, 2016, on ABC, began taping new episodes in America for the first time since BLANK (real answer: since 1999, or this century!) yesterday in New York City, so we now know at least six of the celebrities who’ll …
ABC figured out how to bring back the primetime game show some 17 years ago with Who Wants to be A Millionaire, and after a successful run last year of Celebrity Family Feud with Steve Harvey, the broadcast network is going all-in on Sunday nights this summer. The big news …
More than 16 months after a horrific highway crash killed his friend and almost himself, Tracy Morgan stood center stage on Saturday Night Live as host to deliver his opening monologue. Morgan had read a prompter for a surprise appearance at the Emmy Awards a month earlier, but this would …
Norm Macdonald is as straight a shooter of one-liners and longer punchline-laden jokes as there has ever been in stand-up comedy. It made his tenure as Weekend Update anchor stand out so much he was the only one fired from his Saturday Night Live gig midseason. It has made his …
NBC aired two ads during the Super Bowl for Saturday Night Live’s upcoming SNL40 40th anniversary special, and in doing so, revealed a lengthy list of former hosts, musical guests and cast members confirmed for the reunion party. Of course, Lorne Michaels always loves to keep some celebrity cameos a …
Ted Alexandro began his comedy career as part of a duo, with Hollis James. Two decades later, Alexandro and James are back working together, collaborating on the fun new webseries, “Teacher’s Lounge.” It also reunites them in old familiar roles, with Alexandro teaching music and James as the janitor of a …
Sometimes a show gets defensive before you have a chance to criticize it accurately, and pulls out a series of unnecessary stops to make you stop and think, why does this need to be happening? That’s the thought that dominated this installment of Saturday Night Live. Why are Alec Baldwin …
Justin Timberlake made his fifth turn as host of Saturday Night Live in high style, as so many previous old cast members and hosts welcomed him into the show’s fake-yet-real “Five-Timers Club.” Paul Simon, Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Martin Short (yes, The Three Amigos!), plus Alec Baldwin, Tom …
When Ben & Jerry’s announced earlier this week that it’d unveil a new ice cream flavor for NBC’s 30 Rock, in fans came up with all sorts of guesses based on foods shown and mentioned during the sitcom’s seven-season run, from cute to clever to too cute by half. The …
Imagine, if you will, an alternate parallel universe. Watch a few episodes of Fringe or Sliders first, if need be. OK. Are you ready now? Imagine that in this other world, Rachel Dratch is the lead actress in The Girlie Show, the show within the show of NBC’s 30 Rock; …
