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Alec Baldwin, who won an Emmy for impersonating President Donald J. Trump on Saturday Night Live for the past year, wants to bring the parody to Broadway. “We may take the book and make it into a one-man show on Broadway,” Baldwin told Howard Stern this week. “Like Will Ferrell …
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 …
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 …
“It’s about giving America what it wants.” That’s why Leslie Jones says she wants to portray President Donald Trump in a short film that played during Saturday Night Live, but Lorne Michaels wasn’t having it. If only she had rage-screamed “I HAVE THE BEST TEMPERAMENT.” I’m telling you she would’ve …
Kevin McDonald is one of the original founders of The Kids in the Hall, the legendary sketch comedy troupe that started in Toronto, then became internationally famous over five seasons in the late 1980s and early 1990s thanks to HBO and later CBS. McDonald’s recurring characters included The King of …
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 …
What happens when comedians sit down with Lorne Michaels remains such an enigma shrouded in mystique that Marc Maron has made it a staple of his popular podcast. In fact, it’s one of the ultimate WTF moments in comedy. Does Lorne outright hire anyone for Saturday Night Live, or does …
The husband-wife team of Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond are organizing an all-star tribute to Lorne Michaels at Lincoln Center on Feb. 11, 2016, to benefit the center’s American Songbook series. So far they’ve lined up Tituss Burgess, Jimmy Fallon, Cheyenne Jackson, Taran Killam, Jane Krakowski, Audra McDonald, Maya Rudolph, Martin …
Above Average, the original comedy video and webseries channel fronted by Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video (and thus starring plenty of Saturday Night Live cast members, writers and their friends), has launched a new sister site devoted to sports. But here’s the kicker. Wait. Here’s The Kicker. Even Bryan Tucker, …
