The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s always extra special when a comedian earns a nationwide TV ad campaign. Even more special when it’s the Super Bowl. And as Matt Braunger attests, that much extra special when comedians haven’t had regular live shows and touring to count on for income. Braunger fronts an all-star ad for …
After a one-year overcorrection, the White House Correspondents Dinner is welcoming back comedians to speak to the assembled press and their political and celebrity guests in 2020. Hasan Minhaj, who previously delivered the keynote at the 2017 WHCD, will return to do likewise this April 25. Plus, Kenan Thompson will …
Happy Birthday to Kenan Thompson! Thompson, 41 today and the longest-tenured cast member ever on Saturday Night Live, will add a primetime sitcom to his resume. NBC has ordered The Kenan Show. He began his TV career as a teenager with Nickelodeon’s sketch comedy series, All That. Thompson joined SNL …
In the years since the last edition of Last Comic Standing, comedians have gotten their biggest breaks on NBC via America’s Got Talent. But on AGT, they’ve had to compete with all sorts of entertainers, and aside from ventriloquists, no comedian has ever won AGT. Now they’ll have a new …
September doesn’t just mark the start of the new fall TV season. It also heralds the start of broadcast network buying season for potential series they may need come the following fall! It’s an endless circle of money! The 2019 sitcom shopping season started early on Aug. 17 with CBS …
Over two nights last weekend, the Creative Arts Emmys celebrated many of the comedic efforts on TV and whatever you call TV in 2018. Among the first-time winners: Chris Redd and Kenan Thompson (pictured above) for writing the Saturday Night Live music video “Come Back Barack” (Outstanding Original Music and …
By now, you’re well past used to seeing Saturday Night Live open cold at 11:30 p.m. Eastern with a political sketch lampooning Trump. Not this Saturday night. Instead, 10 cast members from SNL — Aidy Bryant, Kenan Thompson, Melissa Villaseñor, Mikey Day, Luke Null, Chris Redd, Kyle Mooney, Colin Jost, Beck …
Kenan Thompson was 15 when All That premiered on Nickelodeon in 1994. Now two decades and change later, Thompson (who now holds the record for longest-serving Saturday Night Live cast member) will reunite with the executives behind All That to front a new live-action sketch comedy show for even younger …
If Kenan Thompson comes back to Saturday Night Live — whether in May or this fall (depending upon a potential WGA strike) — he’d be due to start his record-setting 15th season as a cast member on the venerable network TV sketch comedy program. No one would fault Thompson for …
Previously only available as an exclusive to subscribers of Howl, the WTF with Marc Maron podcast has just made its special roundup episode, “Lorne Stories,” available to everyone else, too. The two-hour collection, “Lorne Stories,” features experiences with Saturday Night Live creator and guru Lorne Michaels, as told to Marc …
